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- The Editors at Men's Health

The Oculus Quest 2 Will Make Every Guy Love Virtual Reality

It’s 10:30 on a Saturday morning, and honestly, it’s been a long week. And I’m not in the mood to stare at TV, and not in a mood to go train (just yet!). So I need something different, a different world to escape to.

So instead of picking up a controller, I don a giant white headset, the Oculus Quest 2. Then I grab the two hand controllers, wrap their bands around my wrists, and instantly, I’m in. I explore the world of Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge first, and later, I wander around the Just Cause-like world of Population: One. Truth is, I don’t exactly progress far in either game, because just wandering and being able to turn my head without thinking is joyful fun. It’s as easy as gaming on the PlayStation or Xbox, and boots up just as quickly, too.

And the truth is it’s all fun because of the fluidity of the Oculus Quest 2 headset, a stunningly affordable unit at just $299. Here’s the thing with VR: It used to be clunky. I’ve used everything from Samsung’s headsets to Google’s headsets to PlayStation’s souped up PSVR (the only virtual reality unit that has you flying around like Iron Man), and they’ve all had their good points. But until the Quest 2, VR has always felt ever-so-slightly clunky.

It’s a magical, efficient escape from reality, the escape you’ve been dying for, easily letting you access worlds out of your imagination—and it leaves you set to enter any and every world you want to. In a year when everyone could use an escape, that’s something worth enjoying.

-  Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. (Men's Health Fitness Director)