Hey all,
I rock a 2 year old Rift S headset which I enjoy.
However its not the best of resolutions in todays HMD landscape. I dont -need- an upgrade, but have considering to give it a go once we are into the new year.
But, I have been "away" for too long to really have a finger on the pulse and would love to hear your recommendations to an upgrade.
You can see my system spec in the signature.
One thing to consider is that the costs should be reasonable. So anything like the Quest pro is out of the question.
To give you a reference to measure by, I have been looking at the Quest2 and HP reverb G2... but they are almost just as old as the Rift S. Are there anything "newer"?
Thanks a lot.
I think Q2 and HP Reverb G2 are your only real options in the consumer HMD market tbh (unless the 4090s turn out to be magic). That's because current GPUs and CPUs just are not there yet. (When consumer headsets have dynamic foveated rendering this may change.) My rig can barely run my Q2! I have to turn the settings down in both EDH and the Q2. Are you upgrading your GFX card CMDR M Kozak? If not, your RiftS might be a sweetspot. Especially as the Oculus drivers trounce all the others, so you are getting the best performance using Oculus HW, like for like. However, you are wondering about G2 and Q2.
I don't own a G2 but my mate does and when matching the resolutions and despite pushing the Q2's Link bitrate up to the 500+ mbps (this is required for high resolution/Hz to remove/reduce compression), there is a difference in clarity, with the G2 winning. I think I know what it is now. In the Q2 you can see all the details to astonishing levels e.g. in HL:A you can read the 'lorem ipsum' holding text on most of the devices the devs presumably never dreamt you would be able to read and presumably can't read in the Index? The Q2's fidelity is that awesome.
However, there seems to be a really subtle 'noise' over everything. My VR journey was: DK2 --> Rift --> RiftS (which broke after a year) --> Rift --> Q2. If I hadn't tried my friend's G2 looking hard for clarity differences, I would never have noticed the noise. I absolutely love my Q2. I had a teeny bit of buyers remorse with both the Rift and RiftS. I didn't with Q2.
Are you a min maxer? Are you only going to play seated cockpit games like Elite or racing sims? If so, no brainer G2 even with the settings dialled down. Especially with the new Q2 price tag.
Going to play games that make use of the hand trackers Q2.