VIVE XR Elite.

More than I'd be willing to spend on a headset personally. I suspect the price will put most off.

Be interesting to see how it compares to the Meta Quest Pro though given the pricing is similar? Does it have it's own operating system and gaming store like the Meta Quest?
 
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Some good features there, but underpowered if it's using the XR2 gen1 chipset, and no face or eye tracking without add-ons.

I like the hot-swappable battery - Meta missed a trick there with the Pro.
 
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1920 LCD panels at 110 fov for £1,300

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

What's its USP?

There has to be a manufacturing issue with OLED, I don't buy only sony are willing to use them at this point. It's seems VR is very stagnant at the minute.
 
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The adjustable lenses potentially removing the need to wear glasses or use pescription lense inserts is interesting. £90 for a cable to connect to your PC is taking the mick! The rest looks solid and this is less than a Quest Pro, albeit without such an extensive software library.
 
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What do you mean by stagnant?
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Nothing revolutionary to get excited about. I am interested to see what Valve at up to though.

I'm just being impatient :D

I'd love to see a lightweight OLED headset, with high resolution able to stream wireless PCVR without encoding.

Hopefully in the future more and more people get into VR, then we can have some VR movies :cool:

It will be Apple who do it I guess.
 
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Nothing revolutionary to get excited about. I am interested to see what Valve at up to though.

I'm just being impatient :D

I'd love to see a lightweight OLED headset, with high resolution able to stream wireless PCVR without encoding.

Hopefully in the future more and more people get into VR, then we can have some VR movies :cool:

It will be Apple who do it I guess.
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ETFR, self tracking controllers, headset haptics, pancake lenses. This is all stuff that's only really come about in the last few months. Which has led to far smaller form factors etc. Your always going to need a battery and some form of decoding to have a wifi headset too. But with the new chip in the q3, there's a new codec supported (with encoding supported on the latest graphics cards), which will help with wireless streaming.
 
OLED has its own issues, including bad mura (speckles of different brightness in dark scenes), pentile sub pixels in most panels which leads to worse SDE and a lower apparent resolution.
Also you can get ghosting, which is why the CV1 actually limited the black levels so they were slightly grey. Hopefully the PSVR2 HDR OLED panels will be better.

When I got Quest 2 I was amazed about how sharper it was than the Quest 1, which was mainly due to the way the sub pixels are arranged. Of course the colours and black levels were much worse.
 
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In summary:
Great form factor with the detachable battery, glasses mode and diopter adjustment, and lighter than the Pro.
Fits similar to the Q2 and elite battery headstrap, clamping to your face.
Lenses and panels closer to Quest 2 in quality than the Pro (More like the Pico?)
Smaller FOV than the Pro.
Passthrough is much clearer and sharper than the Pro, but not as 3D and scale seems off.

The controllers weren't discussed but they look very bulky to me.

As someone pointed out this seems more like a Pico at 3x the price. Apart from the form factor and the diopter adjust I'm not sure why you'd buy this over a Pico.

Doesn't seem like the Pro killer for less money that some people were hoping.
 
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