VR vs QD-OLED

Which would you choose? 27" qd-oled with the lights off is genuinely beautiful.

Quest 3 PC VR is awesome in a different way.

first world problems.
 
I tried the strap-a-box-to-your-face thing some years ago. It was horrible, sold it after a week.

I have been on 4K monitors ever since and I bought a PG32UCDM a while ago and it is the bees' thingies - superb 4K OLED 240Hz display.
 
Many games I play look awesome in flatscreen - for example, Cyberpunk 2077 with full raytracing and everything turned up to Ultra, or Elite with 2x supersampling to get rid of jaggies.

I’ll always choose to play those in VR with lesser settings (even though they still look awesome in my Quest 3).

A monitor, no matter what the size, cannot compare to being “in” the game. Since getting VR in 2017 the amount of flatscreen games I play has plummeted.
 
I tried the strap-a-box-to-your-face thing some years ago. It was horrible, sold it after a week.

I have been on 4K monitors ever since and I bought a PG32UCDM a while ago and it is the bees' thingies - superb 4K OLED 240Hz display.
OOOH, asus ROG. Very nice. You never realize just how gray LCDs are until they're next to an OLED. Night and day!
 
Many games I play look awesome in flatscreen - for example, Cyberpunk 2077 with full raytracing and everything turned up to Ultra, or Elite with 2x supersampling to get rid of jaggies.

I’ll always choose to play those in VR with lesser settings (even though they still look awesome in my Quest 3).

A monitor, no matter what the size, cannot compare to being “in” the game. Since getting VR in 2017 the amount of flatscreen games I play has plummeted.
ok ok so you rocking a 4090 or a 5090? inquiring minds wanna know
 
3070, Quest 2, Virtual Desktop. It's the difference between watching a film and being there, it's hard to describe.

Try it out. You'll want both options, plus Tobii :)

Would choose VR any day over flatscreen, but depends on the game 🤷‍♂️

O7,
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I tried the strap-a-box-to-your-face thing some years ago. It was horrible, sold it after a week.

I have been on 4K monitors ever since and I bought a PG32UCDM a while ago and it is the bees' thingies - superb 4K OLED 240Hz display.
Always interesting how different people are. For me, the stereoscopic vision combined with the head tracking makes it a completely different game for me, and I wouldn't play it if it wasn't for VR. The box strapped to my forehead - I got used to it pretty quickly. For reasons I have started to play in 2D occasionaly (for stuff I can do when I can't use the VR and that don't demand any ship flying skills, like making engineer runs for experimentals), and I always find it... only meh. Putting on the VR googles and actually sitting in the spaceship still mesmerizes me even after 3000+ hours exclusively in VR.
 
ok ok so you rocking a 4090 or a 5090? inquiring minds wanna know
A 4070ti - my monitor is 1080p at 60fps, so I can generally run flatscreen games with all the bells and whistles. I’m playing Cyberpunk (without RT but decent looking settings) in my Quest 3 at a rendered 3k per eye resolution. Looks superb.

I’ve looked at stuff running on my nephew’s enormous 4K OLED and while I thought it looked very nice, there’s no way I’d give up being in my games.
 
Always interesting how different people are. For me, the stereoscopic vision combined with the head tracking makes it a completely different game for me, and I wouldn't play it if it wasn't for VR. The box strapped to my forehead - I got used to it pretty quickly. For reasons I have started to play in 2D occasionaly (for stuff I can do when I can't use the VR and that don't demand any ship flying skills, like making engineer runs for experimentals), and I always find it... only meh. Putting on the VR googles and actually sitting in the spaceship still mesmerizes me even after 3000+ hours exclusively in VR.

I will agree that presence is amazing with VR. Trouble is that I just couldn't accept that I had to be looking straight ahead to have a clear image, off-centre images are not clear so moving your eyes to look away from the dead-centre of an image was just not acceptable (like glancing at gauges in aircraft for example). So, apart from the horrible feeling of having a box strapped to my face, this eye-position just made it useless to me. Shame really as wandering around the ISS really showed how amazing VR can be.

So I am happy to have a pin-sharp 4K flat screen to view the various aircraft, ships and spaceships that I play and of course I wouldn't be without my TrackIR.
 
I will agree that presence is amazing with VR. Trouble is that I just couldn't accept that I had to be looking straight ahead to have a clear image, off-centre images are not clear so moving your eyes to look away from the dead-centre of an image was just not acceptable (like glancing at gauges in aircraft for example). So, apart from the horrible feeling of having a box strapped to my face, this eye-position just made it useless to me. Shame really as wandering around the ISS really showed how amazing VR can be.

So I am happy to have a pin-sharp 4K flat screen to view the various aircraft, ships and spaceships that I play and of course I wouldn't be without my TrackIR.
Yeah you have to make some adjustments. For me: Totally worth it. For others: YMMV, I get it.
 
This is a hard one, I honestly love my 3 monitors set up + Tobii, haptics and all the physical controls. VR is magical bar the poor onfoot + gal/system map implementation.

So it really depends what activity you are doing. Go to The Witchhead fighting a Hydra in VR solo is extremely immersive, intense and lonely!
 
This is a hard one, I honestly love my 3 monitors set up + Tobii, haptics and all the physical controls. VR is magical bar the poor onfoot + gal/system map implementation.

So it really depends what activity you are doing. Go to The Witchhead fighting a Hydra in VR solo is extremely immersive, intense and lonely!
Switched to 3 monitors 20 years ago playing eve online. Haven't been able to give it up since.

Witchhead. Hydra. N00b says check, one day.
 
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