Virtual & Augmented Reality

I'm only 2 hours into this game and I have to tap out after about 20 min or so per session. It's legit so scary and so stressful that I can't play for any longer. The scariness DOES NOT LET UP OMG.

I am a huge horror buff, and I can say that this game is 100% the scariest form of media I've ever seen. If you're into spooky shit this game is a must play. If you're a wuss then don't you dare try this game, you might die.

I'm traumatized, and I FUCKIKG LOVE IT.

This feeling I had, I almost forgot for so many years, it was so hard to get this "Oh I will spend a lot of hours in this, love it"

I was in my house and suddenly I hear a sound, I open the door and wow it was raining, it was so immersive to see it in VR.

I have my Quest 3 from the launch, but it was my first time trying PCVR, I thought that It will not run well on my Lenovo Legion y540 from 2019, but today I decided to try it and with Virtual Desktop on the lowest settings it runs so smoothly on 24 chucks view distance.

For moments like this I really like VR, I got so bored from flat screen games and VR really lighten up my passion for games again.

I am 29.

If you have a PSVR2 and aren’t playing this, cmon now!! This is the type of game we want - not an overbearing narrative, 120fps, beautiful graphics with engaging gameplay. We should be praising this studio - it shows you what the hardware is capable of

This nifty little thing has been around for not too long, about a year and it promises a lot, according to its makers, so lets dig into its objectively good, bad and the ugly aspects, so long story short:

Good stuff:

Lightweight and small size plus high resolution. Moshing during a metal VR concert becomes pretty easy on your neck. Direct SteamVR integration without having to run weird interfacing softwareis a nice-to-have. Stuff directly ahead looks VERY crisp. The integratred microphones are really good, almost studio level, kinda like on the Valve Index

Now some of the bad aspects:

The soft strap that comes with it. It... Just doesn't work, nope, even with the top strap that comes with it. The entire thing is so unstable that it just cannot stay in its excessively tiny sweet spot. Its two available refresh rates can only be set with a seperate software tool, as well as the fan speed and RGB front LED. The cable clip damages the cable's mantle in its very first use, so be careful to not entirely destroy the cable on day one of your suffrage. Its maximum resolution only works with the lower refresh rate of 75Hz, if you wanna go 90Hz, you have to accept downscaling. The sweet spot is about the size of your palm on a stretched out arm, so you have to move your head around to be able to see stuff clearly.

The ugly and really FUN ones:

The glorious and awesome display quality and its super fancy high contrast dark tones are entirely negated by the negative quality of the lens stacks.

Yes, the lenses are complete and utter SHIT.

I personally have worked with optical systems for over 15 years in the metrological industry, 3D laser scanners and trackers, but those lenses just made me aware that there is a quality level below zero. Stay away from it, you won't like what you see. Bah. Just bad. Nope. I have NEVER in my life seen anything that has this lack of quality. People are joking about Soviet age Ladas and modern Chinese tanks, but holy moly, Bigscreen invented the negative score on quality. There is optics designed for single pixel sensors that have better visual performance OUTSIDE the range o the signle pixel's field of view.

Maybe I just lack the proper terminology to describe such low levels of quality. I never had to deal with that kind astuff. I had broken and chipped lenses with fungii growing in between the individual panes, that performed better. HOW?? WHY??

The bad quality of the lenses negate absolutely every aspect that would make the displays great, we look at the virtual world through the bottoms of old beer bottles, even the google cardboard had more visual acuity. Edge to edge clarity, nowhere to be found. The SLIGHTEST offset due to misalignment makes everything look even worse. The glare just destroys every movie you are going to watch in a dark theatre enviroment. It just doesnt work. It just distracts, it forces you to NOT watch the movie but get distracted by all the glary garbage floating across your field of view. Being blind is probably more enjoyable that this utter failure. No, I am NOT sorry for the person that invested their life force into designing those lenses, I AM ASHAMED that a human did this and especially because a mass produced mediocre HMD like the Quest3 has better lenses, better in every aspect.

No audio, only as an addon the Bigscreen guys have failed to deliver yet. Early adopters and tester people say it's great, but too much delay in delivery and not a built in feature, so it technically doesn't exist. Thr flimsy foam people are talking about kinda disqualifies it from being good.

In the end, the Beyond utterly fails in delivering its most advertised features. The excessively high quality of the displays gets entirely negated by the excessively shitty lens stacks. What a shame. What an absolute letdown.

The process and buying experience.

Delays after delays...

After waiting for 10 months, It took three face cushions to get it somewhat right, but even the third one has a slight offset, so my sweetspot is kinda sideways. I got sick of contacting customer service, dealing with customs declarations adnd crap and trying to explain what's wrong with something that should be REPEATABLY MEASURABLE, which it obviously isn't, the entire face-scanning process is crap since we're using smartphones with components that have very high measurement tolerances. The custom face cushion should've been an option on top of a generalised one. It does not work reliably.

Under the bottom line, I can NOT recommend it in good conciousness. It is a fully fledged engineering failure and it's not worth the hassle. It's overhyped, overprised and underperforms in every advertised aspect. It riddles me why this thing is even allowed to be sold outside the US.

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Hello,

I noticed strange thing. Currently I have old archer C6 router and it works fine for vr most of the time but it's range is bit lacking and there are micro stuters here and there so I'm looking for uprgrade. So far I tried two routers:

• Gl Inet mt6000

• Asus Tuf ax4200

Both of them, despite being newer and much more powerfull, perform way worse than my old TpLink. Black bars when I move my head quickly are huge, while on Tp-Link they're minimal. I tested both routers with best case scenairo - no other connected devices, close range. I tried different chanel widths and nothing seems to help. Is there any magical setting with new routers that I'm missing? I'm using lates Virtual Destop, it reports solid 1200mbps connection (something that my old router isn't even capable of). PC is connected with the same lan cable, capable of 1gbps. Any ideas?

I turned on my headset and then it started restarting repeatedly so I then went on that thing that lets you factory reset it and accidentally pressed side load update now it’s just a grey screen and isn’t responding does anyone know what I can do to fix it?