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Yeah, it’s on par with a monitor I think (I have a 42" 4K).
Just did a night flight. Much better than the O+. Blacks aren’t quite as black but it was a moonlight night with BKN layers. Cool view. None of that…I don’t know what it’s called…‘streaking’ from any bright light source: the cursor itself used to drive me crazy at night. No more.
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It was the first headset where I actually watched a movie in that VR movie theater in the Cliff House. I opened the Netflix app and watched the movie version of Miami Vice. It was fun. The clarity was “good enough” I thought…
And imagine once you watch a 3D movie. It will be a wow factor over another wow factor 
Does 3D movies work in VR? I’m thinking since 3D movies for flat screens are usually based on shutter glasses…?
In 3D SBS (side by side) is perfectly OK.
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Last night jumping into DCS for an hour whilst the wife was asleep I had a bug or problem anyway. In VR I had no forward or backward movement in my hmd. Just able to look around. Most annoying, has it happened to anyone else, and is there a solution.
Off to try this morning see if it’s fixed after a PC reboot
I have had my G2 revert to a 3 DoF mode a couple of times. But nothing that a quick restart didn’t fix.
I restarted it this morning and it’s fine. Thanks. Are you seeing a big difference with your new card in the G2. I got the card first so I don’t know how the 1080 would have coped 
I haven’t built the new PC yet.
Need to finish up some other stuff first… 
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The patience of this man 
You havent even eaten the boxes yet?
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Only tasted them…a little. 
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When I lost positional tracking, cleaning the environmental data in Mixed Reality Portal - Settings - Environment - Clear environment data helped.
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I have this whenever I do not do the initial turn left, turn right, look down dance good enough.
It‘s the headset telling you that it can‘t track your surroundings. And I get nauseous very quick when this happens.
Restarting WMR portal helps.
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Makes sense.
I had this problem pretty often with the Rift S. It forced me to redraw the boundaries everytime that happened, even if I had boundaries turned off.
With WMR it’s just a restart, and it doesn’t happen nearly as often.
This happens to me from time to time. Sometimes it solves itself, other times I restart WMR/SteamVR and it clears.
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I’m using a 1080 (non Ti) and it performs about the same as the Odyssey Plus did, only with the noted improvements above
I’ve tried it at 100% and 80%. 80% is where it’s at now and performance is about the same as at 100% with quality only slightly degraded (yet still way better than the O+). The lenses I think are why it’s so much better. I can still read the Viper MFD’s at 80% whereas, with the O+, I could not even on 150%.
To sum it up: I will say it appears to run a tad slower at what SteamVR considers the default (150%), but not a lot. Honestly don’t recall any significant perf. diff. but every bit counts with this system, thus the 80/100% settings now.
Keep in mind my eyes are, well, old.
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THAT IS HILARIOUS! 
I think I resemble that remark 
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For WMR it’s sort of like ‘INS Last Stored Position’ in that if your surroundings change or it’s a different time of day then the last-used axis (based on the vision placement) calibration doesn’t work. The headset is using the cameras to work out the 6DOF and as a lot of simmers go straight into the game rather than the portal then it has to happen on the fly. To help with that it will use a last stored positioning data, but if it can’t reconcile it then it’ll revert to just the 2 axis of movement. It will retry the calibration about 60 seconds after failing back without a Z-axis, but people often don’t move their heads, as they don’t know what’s going wrong.
Or put another way, if it happens then start waving your head backwards/forwards and it’ll will reset without exiting. 
I have a shortcuts for DCS and MSFS in my WMR portal home (about the only things there) so I put on the headset, do the calibration head dance and then launch - that way I always get good tracking. Here’s how to do that:
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Open up
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programsin Windows Explorer -
Paste a DCS.exe shortcut in to there.
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Put on the headset, let WMR Portal start up.
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Press the Win key to bring up the menu. Use ‘All Apps / Classic Apps’ to find your shortcut.
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Find your DCS shortcut and then mouse/hand controller drag it out into the Portal 3D space. You can also right-click and ‘Pin’ it, so it’ll appear on the main apps squares as well.
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You can position and/or resize this tile and it’ll run DCS when you like.
I also often open up a Desktop tile in the portal and then move my task bar to a vertical placement, as sometimes DCS lose mouse focus down the bottom of the screen.
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