Awake. Box opened.
This is the Reverb Pro by the way…
Have not put it on, but it is plugged in. I’m not going to go through all the drama of spending 20 minutes describing the unboxing. I mean, I posted a shoe review - that should whet your appetite for awesome reporting.
The packaging is very nice and professional. Took all the part out of the box.
Initial impression that most others have talked about - yes, the cord that connects the headset to the PC is beefy and stiff. Feels like something that should be running from the UK to France via some underwater route. It would be pretty heavy and “in the way-ey” for room scale VR without a doubt. The heft of the cable does also give you pause about the display port connection. I might try to find a union or something that perhaps might work that takes the weight of the cable off the direct input into the PC.
On the other end, the cable clips in to the headset, and again, I could see where the weight of this cable might actually cause that to come loose. I will probably rig up some zip ties at some point maybe to make that connection more permanent.
Weight of the headset is very, very light. Ridiculously light. Compared to the large O+ Darth Vader helmet, this is much more skiing in the Alps breezy feminine product commercial type weightless. Very, very nice. Build quality seems nice. Some have commented that perhaps the plastic feels cheapy…I didn’t really get that impression. The O+ has a higher gloss plastic that is perhaps a bit smoother feeling, but just different, not really better or worse.
I still have not put it on by the way. It’s just sitting there on my desk.
Put batteries in the controllers, they lit up. The ring geometry looks exactly like the O+ controllers (guess that is just the way WMR sees them) but the O+ controllers are definitely more svelte and curvy. The thumb rests more naturally on the O+ touch pad than the Reverb. The Reverb controllers have a bit of a more angular feel to them. The O+ are definitely better, but it isn’t like existential crisis bad…just annoying that they didn’t put more work into making the critical interaction part of the setup more…well, better.
Plugged the Reverb into the display port on the back of the computer, and the USB 3.whatever port I have and it recognized it instantly. Controllers did some sort of updatey thing (I’m not using 1903 - I rolled back) and now WMR is saying ready. So in I go lads.