Kiwi Design RGB Vertical Charging Stand for Quest assessment

In the present day I’m going to assessment the RGB Vertical Charging Stand that Kiwi Design despatched me for analysis. I believe it’s an excellent addition to my desk, let me inform you why on this submit.

Unboxing and setup

The RGB Vertical Charging Stand is available in a pleasant field, the place it’s disassembled in a number of items. The consumer has to set it up by following quite simple directions. Placing all of the items collectively required me one thing like 2 minutes. I counsel you comply with the directions on the little pamphlet as a result of those on the field lid don’t clarify tips on how to connect the magnetic USB connector.

You may see the video with my unboxing and the setup right here under:

Design

The stand has a vertical design that retains the Quest able above the desk: it’s not just like the Quest Professional official charger that may be very skinny and allows you to put your Quest mainly on the desk. I believe it is a extra elegant selection as a result of it seems to be like your Quest is there on a bit shelf, it’s a bit like you’re showcasing it.

The shapes of the stand are fairly important and the black colour offers it a chic contact, which contrasts effectively with the pure white of the Quest 2 and three. It will get a bit too monochrome with a Quest Professional on, although.

The stand options a bit shelf the place to place the headset on, and two little arms that may be opened, with two round holes the place to place the controllers in. On the again of the product, there’s a USB-C port the place to plug the electrical energy after which on the facet, there’s one other USB-C connector that’s to be linked to the headset to cost it. Discover that the cable to attach the stand to a USB charger shouldn’t be offered: I suppose Kiwi Design assumes you’ve already loads of them at residence, however I personally disagree with this resolution.

Across the shelf, there’s a little stripe that may emit some coloured gentle results. That is good when you like to offer extra colour to your desk, and suits effectively in your working space when you’ve got another coloured gaming {hardware}. Under the little shelf, there are two buttons: one is to activate/off this little coloured stripe, and the opposite is to vary the sunshine sample.

All in all, it suits very effectively on my working desk, additionally as a result of nearly all of the issues I’ve there (my PC, laptop computer, keyboard, and so on..) are black as effectively.

Charging the headset

The Kiwi Design RGB Vertical Charging Stand can cost the headset however not the controllers. This solves the issue of getting all the time a charged headset, however not the issue of all the time having charged controllers. The Quest Professional official charging stand prices each (additionally as a result of Quest Professional controllers have an built-in battery) and for my part that is the best situation. Anyway, contemplating the low battery utilization of Quest 3 controllers, additionally this resolution is appropriate.

The little shelf of the stand has plugged in a USB-C connector made with rubber, that may join with the headset. But it surely’s very fascinating to see the way it does that. This little USB-C connection rubber wire ends with a magnetic endpoint. You might have one other USB-C magnetic endpoint that it’s a must to plug into your headset. This manner, whenever you put the headset again into the stand, the 2 magnetic endpoints connect one another, bringing the ability to the headset, and charging it. Due to this, it’s doable to cost the machine with out having to fret about inserting the USB-C plug into the headset each time: you simply put the headset in your shelf, and all the pieces occurs magically! The magnets are sturdy sufficient that they can discover one another even when you don’t put your headset within the good place. I liked this.

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The issue with this resolution is that it requires to have this little magnetic endpoint plugged into the USB-C port of the headset. That is completely acceptable when you simply use your headset as a standalone machine to play Gorilla Tag, however it’s a little bit of a nuisance in case you’re a PCVR gamer and you employ a wired Quest Hyperlink connection or you’re a developer and it’s a must to steadily add builds to your machine. On this case, it’s a must to steadily take away this little dongle each time you wish to join the Quest to your PC.

Compatibility

I’m at the moment a Quest 3 consumer, so the very first thing I did was examine that the Kiwi Design RGB Vertical Charging Stand labored effectively with this headset. And it really works nice, each for the headset and the controllers.

I’ve tried it additionally efficiently with Quest 2.

With Quest Professional, I’ve seen it really works however barely worse. To begin with, the headset has a inflexible strap, and when you don’t open the strap sufficient, it doesn’t match the stand. Then, for the reason that Quest Professional has magnets to assist the lateral blinders, generally it occurs that the magnetic connector of the stand tries to connect to the magnets of the headset as a substitute of the one connected to the USB port of the machine.

I wished to strive additionally if it could actually work with different non-supported headsets, so I connected to it my Pico 4 Enterprise. As you may see, it one way or the other suits, however the headset stays a bit in a bizarre place, and the rubber tube with the magnetic endpoint bends a bit an excessive amount of to suit the headset’s top. The Pico 4 controllers in fact can’t match. Anyway it’s outstanding how it may be used additionally with non supported headsets.

Palms-on

I’ve used the stand for a number of days and I’ve to say that it really works nice: it suits my desk, it retains my headset charged, and it shows a coloured gentle that I like. Due to the little rubber pads it has under, additionally it is fairly secure and doesn’t transfer once I decide up the headset or the controller. The magnetic reference to my Quest 3 additionally does its job and I don’t must care about how I put the headset to see it charged.

I’ve solely three little destructive suggestions about it:

1. The arms that maintain the controllers drive me to take the controllers from their higher half. That is fairly unnatural, I wish to seize them from the handles, not from the half the place the buttons are
2. As I’ve mentioned, the little magnet I’ve to connect to the USB-C port of my headset prevents me from utilizing that port for different functions. So there’s this little nuisance of getting to place it on and off once more generally
3. Generally the 2 magnetic endpoints connect to one another, however they do it in a barely skewed means and the electrical energy doesn’t move between them. I’ve to watch out to listen to the sound the Quest 3 does when it begins charging: if I don’t hear the sound, then I’ve to barely transfer the connectors to make them connect.

Value and availability

In case you’re concerned about shopping for this product, you could find it on Kiwi Design’s web site: https://www.kiwidesign.com/products/rgb-vertical-stand. The retail worth is $59.99/€56.95.

And that’s it for as we speak! As typical, when you’ve got any questions or concerns about this stand, let me know within the feedback right here under or on my social media channels!

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