I can see you've not used one. The Quest 3 has graphics virtually indistinguishable from a wired headset.
Any ideas why the Internet is full of complaints about shit compression and lag? Is everyone using their Quest 3 incorrectly? I distinctly remember the complaints rolling in at the time. Checking back they are still there.
Just because it's standalone doesn't mean you can't use your GPU power on your PC. Actually I lie since the last wired headset I used had a lower resolution, so going wireless streaming with the Quest 3 was a leap up in graphics quality compared to my previously wired headset.
The problem with wireless HMD displays is latency and bandwidth. Years ago I remember seeing perhaps even for a short time shipping add-on product for Vive I think it was that were at least using high bandwidth 60ghz radios. Now people are going with standard WiFi and bolting on crappy compression schemes to make it work. This is a step backwards.
The Quest 3 on launch was smaller than any other HMD on the market, it was the opposite of bulky. You want bulk, buy a tethered headset. Untethered ones aren't bulky in the slightest. Literally every other headset released is setting small size records.
So an HMD with an internal battery and onboard CPU/GPU weighs less than a similar HMD without any of those things? Yea sure that makes.... total.... sense.
Generates more heat than the sun? You have that backwards. Heat is generated by my GPU. The headset doesn't generate any perceptible heat on my face and the front of it is lightly warm when I take it off after a gaming session. On the other hand when I use PCVR I walk back into the room with the PC, that room is very warm.
Do you ever read what you write before clicking submit? You can't have it both ways. Either the work is done within the onboard GPU generates heat or the same work is done somewhere else generating heat.
If you are wireless streaming and complaining about heat from the PC then as a basis of comparison you need to do the same shit on the onboard GPU and compare the results.
If you run something that makes the whole room heat up on a remote GPU running that same thing on the HMD if possible which it is not would result in the HMD melting into a pile of goo.
If you run the same workload of the HMDs GPU on a remote GPU then it isn't going to heat up the room because the remote GPU will be sitting mostly idle.
Yeah I'm one of those people, and I will not buy a tethered headset. There's just so many upsides to non-tethered and you've yet to point out a downside that wasn't simply the result of your ignorance.
Quest 3 is a shit experience compared to tethered HMDs for seated SIMs.