Yeah.. VR in Malaysia is more costly than US. Not many people would like to use VR regularly.
You could check out reddit for a more lively community.
I would suggest to hold off Oculus quest unless your really know what you want and/or have the currency to splash.
Oculus Quest is a year old and as per most mobile hardware, goes out of date quick. Performance was always the bottle neck and battery life is only 2-3 hours.

Well if u must split hair, 8 months and 21 days. Oculus quest, though 1st Gen, utilized android/mobile hardware, snapdragon 835, which is from 2016/17? This hardware barely cope with most VR software and rely on heavy compromises. With the short battery life. I expect next Gen if it ever arrives, would be a huge leap in performance.

Selling out doesnt always means its good. Some accesories for vive and rift S and some WMR are also sold out now. Its just a marketing strat, especially suspicious when they allow "booking". I ve just got my oculus quest last week from online which went through china and arrived within a week via UPS.
Indeed new features/ software upgrades are being developed, but this also happens in other headsets, just with other focuses.

Oculus link, is still in beta with huge compromises. Latency is the biggest issue. This is masked with reprojections and drawing controllers on the headset side. Experience vr owners will notice these reprojections, especially the rotational reprojection types. It is more obvious when throwing an item, as the controller position and the timing of button release doesnt match up.
Adding a repeater to extend the cable only makes this worst.

I m just giving my opinion. U can proceed to pre-order a new quest or perhaps buy a 2nd hand to try it out.
Feel free to ask us anything further. The lowyat community is small but most of us are helpful.

If u already know what u want, u could order online from local or oversea. Both has its advantages.

But if u are still unsure and have not tested VR yet, u may want to try some locally. U could go to a VR cafe or theme park and try some out yourself. Some local seller may also allow u to try it out

HTC is pretty much all rounder for SteamVR. Cant really go wrong with that. It has IPD adjustment and Lens to eye distance adjustment. Alot of accessories like trackers and DAS and wireless adapters. Cheap protective accessories are also available online.
However there is a trackpad hardware issue due to the design. Both my controllers were eventually. Good news is, its easily fixable and reinforced.
Another downside is, the warranty service seems to be pretty bad.
Another common complaint bout the vive is the weight on the cheeks due to the design.
U can easily try the Vive out in most VR cafes or arcade first.

Depends on how u wear it. But by default design, its gonna press really hard on the cheeks, especialy for small size users. U could off set the weight by creating a tilt, and changing the face pad to something broad based.
Im relatively small size too.

As mobile apps are still quite light, 64gb is still okay ish.
But if ur going to be putting lots of movies/3d/360 videos for trips, or intend to keep lots of apps/beat saber songs installed, then go for the 256gb.
But imho really 64gb is still ok ish to last for 2-4 years till the battery is dead or outdated.

Beat saber is about 700+mb but custom songs will add on alot. Arizona sunshine(one of the longest coop game) is <5gb.
Richie Plank is <500mb.
Good quality 3D stereoscopic movies will be about 2gb each? Going too high resolution is redundant due to the limitation of the hmd's resolution.
If ur into 360 cameras, then ull probably consume the storage pretty quick.

Any idea the weight of this strap?

Right now? Probably the oculus quest 2, if u dont mind selling out ur data for fb. Seeing that it now supports steamvr via airlink/ cable link methods. Fair investment that isnt too expensive.
But if we re talking about the absolute best VR gear.. thats probably either a Valve Index, or HTC cosmos elite+wireless + steamvr knuckle if u must have wireless.
But VR content has pretty much plateaued. the last big thing to me was probably Half life alyx.
Beat saber and VRchat is still a thing.
Pavlov is like CS in VR while Onwards is abit more of CoD?
There are some coop VR games like Arizona sunshine and Serious Sam. Or Crisis VRigade 2, if u like Virtual cop/time crisis style.
But before buying all those, make sure u have a decent rig with a decent CPU.

I would avoid PSVR, not because its bad.. but rather the contents are pretty expensive for our region. Also the controller trackings is bad and its only 180 degree tracking.

great to know someone joining our VR group and hopefully provide feedback about the Pimax current state.
The high Fov is always tricky to deploy given that everyone's head-shape and eyeball shape and rotations are vastly different from one another.
and what seems normal to one user, will have optical distortion in another user. (hence why normal eye spectacles do not have that high FOV).

Drop us a feedback. I was also looking into the pimax earlier.

Yes u actually can. A well position base station should cover most areas. Just remember the lighthouses must be sufficiently above ur heights, looking down. Minor obscure are often compensated with prediction, so it should be ok.

Noticed how some VR arcade only use 1 base station for beat saber( and apps that require 180deg only)

Quest 2 is still a good choice as a budget. It will only cost only usd 299 and ur privacy to facebook. May consider getting a good 5GHz router if u want to wireless to pc or usb type c if u want to play wired to pc.

Sadly AR is still very primitive. Quest 1-2 isnt actually AR as AR is more complex than that. Due to the unnatural distance between the cameras compared to the user ipd.

U might need to get something like the microsoft hololens 2.