Looks great. The thing that I am excited about for the Reverb is maybe getting that kind of acuity without having to super-sample. That’d be nice.
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I just wish the reviewer would provide a subjective thumbs up or thumbs down for the product. I mean dry facts are important and all, but will flight simmers looveee the Reverb? 
Due to the unicorn poo 
like rarity so far in the shops, we’re reduced to getting HP Reverb news via a stranger on reddit.
Interesting feedback though, even if hard to gauge how personal it is:
“The issue I see is the little micro-movements you make when, say you’re speaking, make the “world” move around.”
He just had to say this. Now I’m going to be looking for it to see if I see it in my O+. Haha…like pointing out the lighted emergency exits in the movie theater to a friend. Argh!
All the rest of that review sounds great. I’m pretty sure it is going to be my next VR headset.
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Interesting how wowed he was with movies in Big Screen. That would be awesome to be able to have a great movie-like experience in the headset.
Okay so I just fired up Big Screen, set it to 200% super sampling and put on Into the Spiderverse in 3D (BTW if you’ve not seen that it’s AMAZING). And holy *** kick me in the balls is it amazing. I was so wrong about the resolution not making that big a difference, woah Billy!
I’ve owned various video projectors over the years, starting with a Sharpvision in the early 90’s (640x480) and I’d say this is comparable to the difference in a 1080p projector and a 4K one. It’s not like looking at a 4K monitor, there’s still room for improvement (isn’t there always) but holy **** it’s impressive. I may actually start watching movies this way!
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The only odd thing he was really keen on (and he might be right, just was a bit unusual) was that for flight sims he seemed keen to run at 60 Hz rather than the native 90 Hz.
When I do that the display is a bit darker plus I swear I can detected motion being jittery. I wonder if his tracking feedback is based on him using 60 all the time.
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I’m a little concerned about IPD even though it apparently has a pretty wide sweet spot. The sweet spot range (according to him) is 59-63 - I’m a 68…
“HP states the ipd range is from 55-71 mm, with 63 mm the target ipd.”
“if you run at 60Hz instead of 90Hz, can you Reproject 30fps to 60fps just like ASW in OculusRift ? (Motion Smoothing on WMR)”
“Yes, that’s exactly what it does. I also got confirmation that the panel is basically underclocking down to 60Hz.”
This might be OK for civil aviation sims perhaps…if you wanted to run super complex scenery and stuff and just accept the lower FPS…
This trend of not having mechanical adjustments for IPD is crazy. I think the Valve Index is the only new one with this.
For the O+ do you adjust it pretty wide already? I’ve found the millimeters readout feedback it gives is fairly random, and just adjust it for comfort and ignore the number it shows. I use a ‘star’ for focusing on infinity in the loft/cliff room area and just make sure both eyes are in the middle of the sweet spot as possible.
I have a genetically superior 64mm IPD 
, so while I welcome this Brave New World of VR have and have-nots, it does seem stupid to give people outside the bellcurve headaches, just for a $10 adjuster mechanism…
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I did the same thing - I simply adjust it while looking at something like the Steam games “wall” and the readout said 68mm. My next eye appointment I’m going to get it measured, but I don’t really see the point if you can adjust on the fly and just find what looks right.
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Totally agree and I’m thinking the same. Maybe wait till the Black Friday sale.
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Ask around here…I’m not the best at waiting for things… LOL… (except unboxing a Rift)…
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At this rate, that’s around the time it might be available.
I’ll hit up the windows store this weekend in Southpark and see if any are to be had.
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If you spot two, grab me one and I’ll square up with you later! I’ve been keeping an eye on the Best Buy sites around Charlotte too…but they delisted them.
I asked at my local Microsoft Store last weekend and was told ‘We don’t stock guitar effect pedals’, so not holding out hope on that side. The reddit rumors were a June 5th web launch at the HP site (again).
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Tell me you’re joking…! 
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Afraid not. The store is fairly large as well, but if it’s not Surface laptops or an Xbox then they are out of their comfort zone. It seems it mainly serves bored students looking for somewhere to play Fortnite for free.
When I got the O+ at $299 it was a bit of an ordeal, in that they had a bunch of them set-up out in the store, but didn’t plug them in or let people use them. When I said ‘I wanted to buy one’ it was like I had invented a new branch of science or something, they all stared a bit and then literally formed a gaggle of blue polo neck shirts and conferred in a concerned huddle for 10 minutes before saying ‘It might be easier if you bought it online’.
I suggested if they could look if they had them in stock here, so I could buy one in store, and one of them reluctantly tapped away on his tablet for 20 minutes before announcing finally ‘What is it again, a monitor?’. An older looking yellow shirt finally wandered by, after noticing the crowd of five blue shirts I had collected around me (all starting vacantly at the headset like it was an ancient mystic artifact) and said ‘Are you being helped?’ and at that point I just grabbed him for dear life and begged him to do something.
He came back with a big box, gave it to me, and I said ‘I should pay?’. He nodded in agreement, perhaps realizing for the first time that he was actually working in a store, and he rang it up at the register as ‘miscellaneous’ as after 10 minutes he couldn’t find the right SKU. My eyes had now rolled enough to go the full 360 back into their original orientation, but I had the box and had probably paid, so exited as quick as I could.
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I read all that in Bill Bryson’s voice…haha…
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Amazing… Just amazing! 
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