Review: ZyberVR Meta Quest 2 Recharge Station

Without a doubt, the most annoying aspect of using VR is that the equipment eats batteries. On the Oculus Quest, the headset is rechargeable via USB-C - but the controllers take plain AA batteries. By default, there's no way to recharge them 😭

So a whole industry has sprung up to fix Meta's mistakes!

The good folks at ZyberVR have sent me this smart docking station to review. Let's take a quick whirl:

It's... pretty good! For £35-ish you get a sturdy docking station, a 15W USB-C charger, 2 AA batteries and controller covers, 4 magnetic USB-C plugs, and a USB-A pass-through cable.

The magnets are plenty strong enough, they controllers jump into place and stick there. The headset is slightly harder to place - but you get a reassuring charging light when it makes contact.

And, if you don't like lights, a simple button turns them off.

It's a reasonably compact unit and fits unobtrusively onto a shelf. Yes, there are some silly LED effects, but you can switch them off.

Downsides

There are a few oddities. You get four magnetic USB-C connectors - but they only get used in the headset. It might have been nice to make the controllers use them as well. Still, having 3 spares isn't so bad.

I'd have preferred a detachable USB cable rather than having one hard-wired into the plug. But I guess it means people don't use crappy cables which can't handle the 3A.

The rechargeable batteries will only ever show a maximum of 85% within the Quest's OS. That's normal for these sorts of batteries - but a little weird when you first see it.

But, overall, it's a nifty device. Once you've finished slicing-and-dicing virtual aliens, the Quest 2 slips neatly into it and recharges pretty quickly. The only thing the ZyberVR doesn't do is wipe the sweat off the headset.

Discount!

You can get 15% off this and other equipment with discount code EDENT15