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Well I wasn´t going to upgrade my G2, but it decided to die unexpectedly. First I looked at Crystal and Big Screen but both have downsides and are quite expensive units, then I thought about Quest3 and almost bought one. But finally I decided to get Pico 4, my thought process was that I needed something that was available immediately and its really cheap unit.
After few days of setting this thing up and testing it in various ways I am positively surprised how good it is. Compared to G2 the resolution is littlelower but the pancake lenses are far better than the fresnel lenses of reverb. I have only used the pico in wireless mode with my pc, its really nice being wire free even when gaming seated. Pico´s own streaming assistant didn´t work at all for me but with virtual desktop I was able to connect instantly. I still need to mess around with my routers and settings to get best possible wifi connection.
Downsides and upsides compared to Reverb G2 V1
-Slightly lower resolution
-Built in audio isn´t great (I plan to use wired phones connected to pico)
-Stock facial interface isn´t that comfortable (I already printed new interfaces to fix this)+pancake lenses offer much wider sweet spot and the image is clear to almost the edges of the screen
+optional wireless mode
+stand alone mode (not sure that I will be using this much though)
+really cheap, I only paid little over 300€ for the 128GB model, that is almost half the price of quest 3)
+colour passthrough mode vs the black and white in G2 (resolution isn´t great but its enough that you can move around in your house without taking the headset off.
+headset/controller tracking is far better, I couldn´t really play beat saber with G2 controllers due to losing controller tracking.If you are talking about converting anything including windows desktop, its maybe not that simple, otherwise someone would have done it. Not that many users need this function so its a very limited market since you can use other software for games/video.
Also lag could be an issue doing it in software side?
Get the 7800x3d, on higher resolutions you are mostly gpu bottlenecked but for simulators 7800x3d blows others out of the water and gives a nice boost even on higher resolutions. I upgraded from 3900x to 7800x3d and haven´t regretted it a second.
Don´t know how well vorpx would work with this, but since it uses Unreal engine 4, you can use that certain mod that was recently released…
(There are videos on youtube on outcast 2 vr)
G2 user here, currently I only see two options if I wanted to upgrade, Crystal and Bigscreen Beyond. For seated usage Crystal might be better but the weight thing still makes me wonder, its allmost double of Reverb and I don´t consider this to be the most comfortable thing either. Well to be fair I added 200g counterweight to the back of G2 to make it better balanced so it is maybe 750g now. I also like playing standing with controllers and that 1kg weight of crystal really puts me off, that is why I probably would pick bigscreen beyond. I think Aero is bit outdated and varjo will maybe launch a successor to that in 2024
Crystal would be much more attracting option if they release a version with out all the standalone nonsense, it would make it lighter and cheaper.
I still can´t use the full potential of G2 anyway because of GPU limitations so Im sticking with it for some time.
Just bought my first 3D (laser) projector, some profiles looks great out of the box, some launch fine but without any 3D depth even if vorpx shows that geometry/z-normal should be active and some profiles just show garbled mess.
Its good to have options, while other games are suited better for vr, some are better fit for flat 3d screens.
While I don´t currently have a 3D projector, vorpx should work fine with it because it has the “generic 3D display” option. I have used it with my 3D tv, so a projector should work also.
And yes to the reshade 3D depth mod.
Well never mind on that mouse cursor problem since I forgot vorpx has its own keybind for hiding the cursor (Alt-C)
Seems to be working for me now, updated the graphics drivers to latest version, maybe the shader rebuild helped or something?
Crashing for me too on splash screens, Im using the egs version with openxr mode.
edit. managed to get in game once but crashed after couple of seconds.
Your thread reminded me to try this again, at least for me applying the 4gb patch myself doesn´t work because it breaks the .exe file so I needed to download the pre patched .exe’
Here is the link, just replace the original on “dragon age ultimate edition\bin_ship” folder
https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/f20a06alvt0ymeu/LAA%20DA-O%201.05%20.exe.zip?dl=1G3D is possible but that mode had so many issues on the profile that I used so I had to abandon it at least for now.
Actually now that I checked, I get the white dude screen every time when I launch a game, well not a big deal since you need to only press arrow/e key to get pass that.