HP Reverb G2 VR Headset Co-designed by Valve and Microsoft is announced
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vbetts
Moderator
VR is awesome, and I get that there's a premium to pay for the tech but it's just overall so damn expensive for the masses still. I don't think it will really be a thing until it hits a lower price point while still being usable or a decent experience.
Fox2232
EspHack
so what is it, 2048x2048? oh well its LCD anyway, scratch that
XP-200
The tech for this is very nice, well for me anyway as i am still using the CV1 and Vive, and the fact that Valve are on board and this HMD will be intergrated into steamVR means that any game that supports the index will run on this HMD, so that is a nice big bonus, basically this is a Index lite with all the basic functions but without the premium features finger tracking, 120/144 hz or lighthouse external tracking, but with full steamvr platform intergration, and that is very nice indeed as Facebook have moved the goalposts of late with their Oculus VR hardware as it all now requires a mandatory FB account liked to get access back to all the social features of the HMDs, and basically they are locking their ecosystem down slowly, and i prefer my vr games on a more open VR platform....so yeah i think this will be my next HMD for VR and steam. 🙂
geogan
If this really is a sort of "Index Lite" then it may be very interesting.
I am too stuck on Oculus CV1, was thinking of side-grading to the Rift S, but not sure if it really is worth another €500 on top of the original €600 the CV1 cost me.
And it appears Facebooks plans do not include a better CV2 any time ever it seems - they want to stay in €400 price and only low/mid range hardware.
I really want the Valve Index - only thing that looks like a proper upgrade from CV1, but the price of over €1000 is just crazy money.
TieSKey
The entire "windows MR" headsets are a pain in the ass since they force u to keep the "windows MR app" open even while u have steam vr and a game open, eating away performance....
Furthermore, said windows mr app will refuse to install in some version of windows 10, rendering your headset unusable......
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pastor_marco
Just pre-ordered. Racing sims on my Occ Rift S has been incredible and I'm totally addicted to it. I can't imagine how good it's gonna be with 2.5x the resolution. This was a no-brainer impulse buy for me.
geogan
Virtual Reality Oasis overview of Reverb G2 has really sold me on how good this should be. Oculus are totally taking the piss with the Rift S. It is not any sort of an upgrade over CV1 compared to this. And yes I am sick of the Oculus Home continually starting up on its own all the time randomly for no reason, even though I have specifically told it not to do this, and not to start with Windows, and it just conveniently (for Facebook tracking) just ignores the settings and does it anyway.
The geogan
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geogan
pastor_marco