Is anyone using this ? I picked it up about 2 months ago and have shot as of tonight, 20,012 "rounds". In short it is a virtual reality shooting simulator. I should start by saying I have not really played video games since you actually went to arcades to do it. Like say the late 80's. That made this whole thing a bit of a learning curve, and an investment. First you have to own the Meta Quest either 2 or 3. Since I had neither I spent $300 on the 3. Then you have to subscribe to the app and get the handgun from ace. The handgun is a Sig 320ish thing that you put the controller from the quest in. It has a functioning trigger and a button for a mag release. Righty's or Lefty's shooting as righty's only. I will come back to that. From ACE a one year subscription and the pistol is around $230. I had a code from someone so paid about $200. So no, it is not cheap, roughly the cost of 2 cases of ammo.
There are a lot of things you can do with this including Steel Challenge like stages, USPSA stages, standard drills, decision drills, and more. They add things quite often. Here is a short video from Matt Little showing one way to use it.
Here is a picture from my best so far score. AFAIK it goes from bronze to diamond on the scores using hit factor but also some sort of other number score. Though you cant see it all in the picture this drill is based on the Tom Cruise briefcase scene in Collateral.
Does it help? Last weekend I shot my first IDPA match of the season, so the first match in 4 months. Though I didn't dominate, coming in 3rd, I did shoot very consistently. I did have one issue. Remember I said you couldn't do a reload as a Lefty? A number of years ago I started switching my mag releases over on my ambi guns and have been training that way. Well in the game I have to reload as a righty. First reload of the match I tried to reload as a righty. It cost me some time, in some measure because not only did I mess up, but it was cold out and the arthritis in my hand made it pretty stiff. To solve that issue, at least temporarily I just set my gun on unlimited ammo in the game. There are still some stages that require reloads so it is not a complete fix. So far that is the only negative training scar I have seen. One big positive is that much like regular dry fire, this allows you to perform at the limits of human function, but unlike regular dry fire adds in times, and hits, and other features. No, it does not have recoil per se, but your sight picture does move as if there is.
In short, like so many things I think it depends how you use it. It can just be a fun game, or possibly it can be a valuable training tool.
There are a lot of things you can do with this including Steel Challenge like stages, USPSA stages, standard drills, decision drills, and more. They add things quite often. Here is a short video from Matt Little showing one way to use it.
Here is a picture from my best so far score. AFAIK it goes from bronze to diamond on the scores using hit factor but also some sort of other number score. Though you cant see it all in the picture this drill is based on the Tom Cruise briefcase scene in Collateral.
Does it help? Last weekend I shot my first IDPA match of the season, so the first match in 4 months. Though I didn't dominate, coming in 3rd, I did shoot very consistently. I did have one issue. Remember I said you couldn't do a reload as a Lefty? A number of years ago I started switching my mag releases over on my ambi guns and have been training that way. Well in the game I have to reload as a righty. First reload of the match I tried to reload as a righty. It cost me some time, in some measure because not only did I mess up, but it was cold out and the arthritis in my hand made it pretty stiff. To solve that issue, at least temporarily I just set my gun on unlimited ammo in the game. There are still some stages that require reloads so it is not a complete fix. So far that is the only negative training scar I have seen. One big positive is that much like regular dry fire, this allows you to perform at the limits of human function, but unlike regular dry fire adds in times, and hits, and other features. No, it does not have recoil per se, but your sight picture does move as if there is.
In short, like so many things I think it depends how you use it. It can just be a fun game, or possibly it can be a valuable training tool.