Are we there yet?

[ImMrChris]

I have to say after owning a Reverb G2 for sim racing and actually prefering my triple screens due to the blurriness outside the sweet spot i was dubious about buying another VR headset but....

Damn the Quest 3, I feel like we are finally in a place where the 14 year old me dreamed about in VR! I've been sitting here for a few days just watching replays of my old races in Assetto Corsa in OpenVR @ a resolution of about 4.5k from a 4090 with the encode rate of 500Mbps over the link cable it's actually astonishing how good it looks

which is good in a way but bad that it's peaked my interest in the highend headsets (Crystal, Aero etc) can they really be any better? and why oh why can i not be happy lol

I see Varjo have some news coming on the 27th I'm excited for VR again

do you think we are there yet? it's only going to get better right?

 

[ImMrChris]

The Crystal has put me right back to where I was when I got my Reverb Pro around 2019 with my 2080ti. The Reverb sort of ran ok with the 2080ti but didn't reach its full potential until I got my 4090 which allowed maximum settings with some super-sampling thrown in.
The Crystal, even with its weirdness, is something else when it comes down to detail. HL:Alyx anti-grav glove is a thing of marvel to look at.


My Crystals 30 day Amazon return window ends tomorrow so I put my Reverb G2v2 back on to see if I could go back to it. I tried a quick game of Elite Dangerous and Skyrim. I spent about 10 minutes wondering how I thought this headsets resolution was ok. The Crystal is so far ahead of the Reverb, even with super-sampling , that I felt like I was going back to a PSVR1.

I wonder how the crystal compares to the quest 3 now! anyone got both?

 

[ImMrChris]

Another issue is the higher resolution headsets need top of the range PC hardware, which is far out of the reach of most people's budgets.

Even with eye-tracked foveated rendering you still need a hefty GPU to run high end PCVR.

its always been that way since the first oculus dev kits i had

 

[ImMrChris]

afaik @Zeeflyboy boy has. I've owned a Varjo Aero (£2k when i bought it) and a Quest 3, if I could only have 1 of them right now it'd be the Quest without a shadow of doubt.

Due to how good the Quest 3 I’m tempted to invest in an Aero or a Crystal but due to their age I’m not sure if it’d be a real upgrade from the Quest 3 maybe I’ll wait for the next gen like the Deckard

 

[ImMrChris]

Yes the Quest 3 for it's price is on another level! i've got an Varjo Aero too and the Quest 3 isn't a million miles away from it's quality

and im with you on the retiring part! it's amazing how far games have come really in such a short space

 

[ImMrChris]

Just dipping into the thread to ask:

I had an Oculus Rift that I bought in 2017 and I sold it on due to the resolution which I just couldn't enjoy. Have things improved a lot? If I bought another headset then I think I'd be looking to play racing Sims, MS Flight SIM and probably Skyrim as I'll never fall out of love with Skyrim

Anyway, I have a 5900x / 7900XT based system and was wondering if it was worth picking up a new headset for another go. Is it really improved that much, and is my system up to it?

imo yes and yes the Quest 3 is leagues ahead of even a Q2 but for racers it still has slight compression if you up the bit rate compared to a rift though it's miles and miles better

 

[ImMrChris]

What's it like in Skyrim, I had a QPro and Pico4 and the grass and rock textures were terrible blurry patches. Is that improved on the 3?

I don’t play Skyrim so couldn’t tell you but that sounds like a game problem rather than a headset