VR News: HP Reverb - Second Gen headsets are on the way

Maico · May 31, 2019, 9:07am

Best story yet! LMAO

fearlessfrog · May 31, 2019, 4:59pm

Interesting to see the undersampling being useful, as in still clearer than all the other headsets while still not running a native resolution.

fearlessfrog · May 31, 2019, 5:00pm

So actual signs of life in the HP Store. Looks like the UK is leading the way on this one, available for order incredibly.

Anklebiter · May 31, 2019, 5:15pm

Oh man. That review seals the deal for me. Now to start the wife campaign.

BeachAV8R · May 31, 2019, 5:23pm

Man…that is a great review. I do think I’m sold on it.

fearlessfrog · May 31, 2019, 5:27pm

I want it but can’t afford it. One of you lot has to go first for this one.

Still interested to see some sim fan’s detailed Valve Index reviews as well, just to complete the ‘New VR Spring Trifecta’ but it does seem like the Reverb has the pure pixels I would like. If the Index’s main feature is 120 or 144 Hz refresh rate, then for sims that ain’t gonna fly (or rather, it will more like 60 fps instead).

BeachAV8R · May 31, 2019, 5:32pm

I’d be happy to go first. Anyone seen one laying around?

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BeachAV8R · May 31, 2019, 5:50pm

I think today I’m going to roll back the 1903 update. If I thought a fix was in the wings, I’d wait, but I think I’ll just do the windows update rollback.

fearlessfrog · May 31, 2019, 6:00pm

Yep, Microsoft confirmed that 1903 broke WMR rendering, so to get that 2.0 render resolution you’ll need to go back. For me, it was pretty quick, and the rollback didn’t take long.

fearlessfrog · May 31, 2019, 6:52pm

It’s really curious that the reviewer insists on a solid 60 fps in all the sims, to the extent that he will downsample the display resolution and refresh rate to 60 Hz to achieve that. It’s an interesting way to do it, but I think that’s quite unusual. Normally I see a lot more use of setting a native resolution (say 180% SS in the Reverb’s case in SteamVR) and then staying at 90 Hz, but letting reprojection be used. A lot of us are getting used to DCS and X-Plane at a reprojected 45 fps (or 40 fps for the Rift S’s) so to see that ‘It must be 60 fps’ approach was an interesting thing to see.

fearlessfrog · June 1, 2019, 2:07am

Looks like the US Store tomorrow:

BeachAV8R · June 1, 2019, 2:11am

Hovering over my keyboard at 12:01AM…

BeachAV8R · June 1, 2019, 11:47am

Purchased a pro version since I’ll be bringing it to work to demo for the guys…

Kinger · June 1, 2019, 11:49am

DEFINITELY looking forward to your review!

Troll · June 1, 2019, 12:02pm

What’s the difference?

Kinger · June 1, 2019, 12:04pm

Pro version has a leather face strap while the home version is regular foam I believe.

BeachAV8R · June 1, 2019, 12:30pm

That’s correct, and an additional backpack PC type connector or something for the cable.

PaulRix · June 1, 2019, 12:54pm

Congratulations Chris! I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts when you get it.

wheelsup_cavu · June 1, 2019, 3:08pm

Looking forward to your review.

Wheels

BeachAV8R · June 1, 2019, 4:34pm

Well, we’ll probably already know everything about how simmers feel about the Reverb by the time I get mine. Ship dates aren’t until June 18 for the United States…so it will be a bit of a wait…