I’ve been avoiding thinking about a new headset for a while now. Basically, I convinced myself that I would need a new video card to be able to really get the frames that I would want, the the HP Reverb G2 was ‘good enough’ (ie: better than most everything else at the time).
Looking at the price drop started me thinking again, and I happened check in on the HeliSimmer site - which I do, usually more often, and saw the mention of the price drop there, and their article that compared it to what i have now.
The Aero is available for $990 Canadian dollar-y-doos … but the the base stations that pushes it back up to closer to that $1500 range. And as you said, that’s almost Crystal territory. It’s tough to make a decision, really. And this is my prime flight-sim system upgrade season, just in time for winter
Bigscreen seems enticing but no eye tracking/foveated rendering, and it still needs base stations. I think that the Aero is a better deal.
Is it though? I think it might be $990 USD’s so that’s more like $1333 Canadian sorry ducks (or $1700 all in with a single base station). Plus tax of course (BC 12%, don’t know about all those french bits east of the ocean). I’m thinking Varjo didn’t really think about North America having more than the one currency… Would like to be wrong though!
regarding the Aero and have a hard time to resist and wait at least till the end of this year to see how the market shapes up with new devices coming to it.
Looks interesting for the wireless Virtual Desktop Oculus/Pico users out there. SteamVR has some overhead for it’s controller, dashboard and desktop compositor stuff, so I imagine this just does raw passthrough for better performance.
Not sure of the overlap between people with Meta stuff and wanting to do things like this, but good it exists.
Wow - not exactly news (do we have a general VR thread? Didn’t see one…) but when I dropped my framerate in Pico 4 to 72Hz t’other day to test it in DCSW 2.9 I had a quick go on the often resource-heavy in VR No Man’s Sky - and look at that!
Just one month after launching, Meta Quest 3 is already the 5th most used VR headset on Steam.
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. If you accept, it uploads a list of your PC specs and peripherals to Valve, as well as any headset used on SteamVR.
LOL…I know how you feel…I just got a Pimax Crystal when they launched their “Sim” package…I couldn’t pass on the price. Since the VR! is brand new in the HMD market,I might be looking to purchase in a yr or two…after they go through some growing pains.
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