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Review by absolute amateur
I know nothing about VR so this review will cover the very basics. This is a standalone product, you don’t need to connect it to a tv, computer, or gaming system (you can use a computer if you want I think). You do need an app but don’t need a Facebook account to set it up. You do everything through the Meta Horizon app. It was very easy to get it up and running. When looking through the apps it’s basically what you would expect at this point. Most things have a portion you can play for free but the full experience costs money. When playing a game you set up a perimeter that will hopefully keep you from running into the objects around you in the real world. As for the headset it, it is large and a little heavy. I think this version is one of the smallest lightest ones. It has form around the face but it does get really hot. My husband thinks there is some airflow which makes sense, but it still gets hot after a while. We had a limit of 30 mins on it, I think you would need that to take breaks and cool down. It was difficult to get it adjusted for my kids smaller heads (8 and 11 year olds) but we did figure out something. We added a winter hat at first but eventually got a close enough fit without it. It does cover most of their faces. I was being careful about what games we were putting on. We downloaded some penguin game but it turned out that it was an open game and other people were playing and could interact so we removed that one. I don’t want my kids playing anything where they could interact with others so sometimes it was trial and error on that. Overall, this was super popular for a week then my kids haven’t touched it. My husband is planning on playing the Batman game. The experience of it is really cool but make sure there are games that look interesting to you. There isn't a ton of storage on this so you will probably have to manage your games if you are playing a lot of them. And make sure you have the physical space to use it.