Meta Quest Touch Pro Controllers

Honestly I was sceptical that these Pro Controllers would be that much of an upgrade over the standard Quest 2 Controllers but I was wrong.I am a VR power user, I play Beat Saber each day on either Expert/Expert+ difficulty so having solid tracking on the controllers is something that is a requirement. Plus I also heavily play other VR games like Red Matter and I Expect You To Die.The original Quest 2 Controllers are pretty damn good to be honest, the inside-out tracking works really well but the big problem is the tracking rings. Once the controllers start to overlap each other, the tracking can get wonky.And so here we have the Quest Touch Pro Controllers and these are a big improvement over the standard controllers. These don't suffer tracking issues from things like the controllers overlapping or the controllers going out of view of the headset.These controllers are expensive and I would only recommend these controllers as an upgrade for Quest 2 users if you are a power user and you use your Quest 2 everyday.Edit (29/12/2022):Forgot to add that I have used the Touch Pro Controllers in both Standalone and PCVR, in both occasions the controllers performed perfectly. With PCVR I am using an Oculus Link Cable, I don't use Airlink or Virtual Desktop purely because I don't want to care about battery life.A final note I will say is that I have found that the headset fails to find the controllers when waking the headset up from sleep. Not a deal breaker for me as I've find that if you power off the headset when you're done and then when you want to play VR you power the headset on, the controllers are picked up instantly. Something to keep note of if you must always have your headset in sleep mode.

I really love these controllers they work really well with the Q2, zero tracking problems I play online pcvr and it work fine with that, the battery life is really good they last longer then my vibe trackers and that's a real surprise, the only thing I don't like is after taking them of charge I have to restart my headset every time to reconnect them that's a pain and not sure why that happens. Is your an FPS fan they these really do help as there's no occlusion problems also dealing with wrist based UIs on the normal Q2 controllers has always been a pain but no with the procontrollers

Bought for use with quest 2 as advertised to work with it. Yeah... barely.First of all they wouldn't work on day 1, they required a firmware update from meta and that update was stuck at 0% and for some reason you needed a mobile app to pair the controllers to the headset (Is this made by school children or something?) so I spoke to tech support (they did reply very quickly to be fair and the person tried their best but this shouldn't have even happened.) They didn't seem to be doing anything, then literally the next day a system update was released that immediately fixed the firmware and at least made the controllers actually work.So Meta doesn't test their updates before releasing them and can break your stuff at any point. NiceNow it is day 2 and finally I can start using them but what's this they won't work without WiFi turned on which causes the quest 2 to actually not charge fast enough anymore and quickly run out of battery if you're using the link cable for PC.So I switch to using airlink and plug the quest 2 directly into a power socket for better charging. Welcome to lag fest as airlink just lags to hell every few minutes even though I have a powerful 5 GHZ WiFi 6 router sitting literally less than a meter away from the quest that's only job is to supply a WLAN connection to the quest 2.Onto the controllers themselves. Debatably worse than the original controllers... they need to be charged once every single day if you use them A lot.The tracking... While it's true you can put them behind your back and they still track, if you put them down or have them close to any object in your room they just completely lose tracking so if you're sitting down and you put one next to your waist to grab a gun or mag in a game you just can't do that and the controllers just become static for a few seconds. This happens alot. Barely ever happened with the original controllers...The only reason I really bought this was because the joystick drift on the old controllers was really bad and my character would walk backwards all the time when I wasn't pressing anything. It looks like they used the exact same sticks on these controllers so I'm guessing it's gonna start drifting at some point.So to sum it up they are not an upgrade for quest 2 they are just different and not particularly better in any way at all.Absolute rip off

The tracking on these controllers are not reliant on the headsets cameras unlike the controllers that come with Quest 2, so you can put your hands behind you and the controllers report their locations independently, no more looking at your hip to make sure you grab your sidearm or item in VR!With the improved tracking it also makes everything feel a bit more natural, plus the added haptics in this controller are great, making everything feel a bit more real and like it carries weight.I highly recommend them, yes they are expensive but I don't think Quest 3 will likely make better controller than this as they want to keep the price point of it down, so I see these as a long term investment in VR.

Understandably, these aren't cheap, they effectively contain miniaturized versions of your headset's primary tracking, and that means that they are much better than the stock controllers, especially since they have no tracking rings.If they were substantially cheaper, this'd be a no-brainer.