I thought the whole point of VR was to get away from the mrs
They are the high tech modern equivalent of the Garden Shed.
£1000 on VR headset!
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They are the high tech modern equivalent of the Garden Shed.
Its def my 1st choice currently, i think id rather take a punt on something half the price of the competiton, then spend £1000 and get a boat load of problems that wont be sorted,
For a grand you could buy 2x Quest 3 and give one to the mrs
I once asked my Mrs about getting bike intercom so we can talk to each other on the road, her answer was “ why do we need to talk to each other” that answers the above lol, think ill stick to my hobbies and her to hers he heI thought the whole point of VR was to get away from the mrs
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The pimax headsets are not just plug in and go (or so i heard) they need to be tweaked and setup correctly
It seems that way, i usually just watch youtube videos of reviews to get a rough idea of how good or bad something is, but watching this one i decided to read thru the comments,
def gives you a different prospective! Most aligned to what you just said
Im happy buying pc parts/upgrades with a bit of trial n error but making a choice on buying a VR headset is a nightmare due to cost and availability and you just relying on other peoples personal experiences
OP - In your position and if your budget it definitively set, I would definitely consider the Pimax Crystal Light. Great value for money now relatively - But - I would get it from Amazon, not Pimax direct. That way if anything goes wrong you are way more protected.
This is what I did a few months ago and I'm very impressed with mine. Note that with the aspheric lens distortion profiles the rendered res is very high though, and even my 5090 doesn't totally cut it for all VR games, so a 9070XT is going to struggle for some stuff if being brutally honest.
I really want microOLED though, so my next headset will definitely be so. Relating to that the other one I'd recommend the OP given his GPU and budget would be the Pimax Dream Air SE - same specs and res as the beyond 2, so it's microOLED and a much easier final resolution to drive, but should come in way cheaper than the beyond2 at around £1k (does not need extra controllers or base stations).
However, and it's a big however - the Dream Air (non SE) is still in the 'prototype' phase and not a mention of the SE anywhere, so I don't think either will be available to actual punters for ages. Says coming Dec 2025 on their website. Yeah right. The one genuinely bad thing about Pimax is they are genuinely full of absolute horse **** when it comes to release dates. So much so it's basically a meme now.
People rave about the Quest 3 but I wouldn't personally touch one, because it's Meta. I'm a principled son of a biatch. Also, the lenses may well be stellar, but what's the point in having excellent clarity when you are viewing LCD panels with colours and black levels equivalent to a 15 year old crap monitor.
Also, last ones.....You could do a lot worse than finding a used Reverb G2. You could probably pick one up for a steal now and the new Oasis driver means it works with the latest Windows 11. This was my first VR headset and it's still very very good for what it is (but still bad black levels and not great colour reproduction.)
Or, consider PSVR2 and PC adapter (I've got one of those too). It's OLED, super bright (one of the brightest going!) and If you can learn to live with the mura and see it as 'artistic filmgrain'
it's very good for the price if you add some reshade sharpening (the image can be quite soft due to the tech used).
This is what I did a few months ago and I'm very impressed with mine. Note that with the aspheric lens distortion profiles the rendered res is very high though, and even my 5090 doesn't totally cut it for all VR games, so a 9070XT is going to struggle for some stuff if being brutally honest.
I really want microOLED though, so my next headset will definitely be so. Relating to that the other one I'd recommend the OP given his GPU and budget would be the Pimax Dream Air SE - same specs and res as the beyond 2, so it's microOLED and a much easier final resolution to drive, but should come in way cheaper than the beyond2 at around £1k (does not need extra controllers or base stations).
However, and it's a big however - the Dream Air (non SE) is still in the 'prototype' phase and not a mention of the SE anywhere, so I don't think either will be available to actual punters for ages. Says coming Dec 2025 on their website. Yeah right. The one genuinely bad thing about Pimax is they are genuinely full of absolute horse **** when it comes to release dates. So much so it's basically a meme now.
People rave about the Quest 3 but I wouldn't personally touch one, because it's Meta. I'm a principled son of a biatch. Also, the lenses may well be stellar, but what's the point in having excellent clarity when you are viewing LCD panels with colours and black levels equivalent to a 15 year old crap monitor.
Also, last ones.....You could do a lot worse than finding a used Reverb G2. You could probably pick one up for a steal now and the new Oasis driver means it works with the latest Windows 11. This was my first VR headset and it's still very very good for what it is (but still bad black levels and not great colour reproduction.)
Or, consider PSVR2 and PC adapter (I've got one of those too). It's OLED, super bright (one of the brightest going!) and If you can learn to live with the mura and see it as 'artistic filmgrain'
it's very good for the price if you add some reshade sharpening (the image can be quite soft due to the tech used).
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Unfortunately i cant really push to a 5090 and 1k on a vr headset, im hoping for a 5080 24GB super, Or a high end AMD card, im sure ill have no problem moving my nitro on,OP - In your position and if your budget it definitively set, I would definitely consider the Pimax Crystal Light. Great value for money now relatively - But - I would get it from Amazon, not Pimax direct. That way if anything goes wrong you are way more protected.
This is what I did a few months ago and I'm very impressed with mine. Note that with the aspheric lens distortion profiles the rendered res is very high though, and even my 5090 doesn't totally cut it for all VR games, so a 9070XT is going to struggle for some stuff if being brutally honest.
I really want microOLED though, so my next headset will definitely be so. Relating to that the other one I'd recommend the OP given his GPU and budget would be the Pimax Dream Air SE - same specs and res as the beyond 2, so it's microOLED and a much easier final resolution to drive, but should come in way cheaper than the beyond2 at around £1k (does not need extra controllers or base stations).
However, and it's a big however - the Dream Air (non SE) is still in the 'prototype' phase and not a mention of the SE anywhere, so I don't think either will be available to actual punters for ages. Says coming Dec 2025 on their website. Yeah right. The one genuinely bad thing about Pimax is they are genuinely full of absolute horse **** when it comes to release dates. So much so it's basically a meme now.
People rave about the Quest 3 but I wouldn't personally touch one, because it's Meta. I'm a principled son of a biatch. Also, the lenses may well be stellar, but what's the point in having excellent clarity when you are viewing LCD panels with colours and black levels equivalent to a 15 year old crap monitor.
Also, last ones.....You could do a lot worse than finding a used Reverb G2. You could probably pick one up for a steal now and the new Oasis driver means it works with the latest Windows 11. This was my first VR headset and it's still very very good for what it is (but still bad black levels and not great colour reproduction.)
Or, consider PSVR2 and PC adapter (I've got one of those too). It's OLED, super bright (one of the brightest going!) and If you can learn to live with the mura and see it as 'artistic filmgrain'
So anything thats gonna push my 9070XT to far is pointless, more so if it comes with caveats ( there’s not a lot that doesnt),
The quest 3 is still contender just because of cost, and if nothing else comes up it might just do for now, maybe
Im hoping there will be some real world reviews of the dream SE by the time deckard hopefully appears, then i can make some more informed decisions !