Advice for a VR headset please.

[RichD 17]

I currently have a poorly Oculus Quest 2 and to be honest, I've not been to impressed by it using MSFS.

I'm currently looking into either a Reverb G2 or a HTC Vive, and I'd like some advice into which one is best to run on a RTX 3060.

Thank you in advance.

Rich

[enright 487]

The answer depends on what you find lacking in the Quest 2. Are you looking for a more fluid / responsive experience, or better image quality. You usually have to trade one for the other.

The G2 has a higher resolution, for example, but that will make it challenging for your 3060 to deliver a decent frame rate, unless you scale down the rendering - but then you are defeating the headsets main selling point.

What is it about the Quest 2 that you don’t like? Should be able to steer you in a good direction based on that feedback. 

 

 

 

[RichD 17]

Hi,

The quest 2 is fine until I connect it to the pc, either link cable or air.  When I start it, I see the desktop fine, I can move my head and there is no lag or distortion. When I fire msfs, it starts to lose tracking and resolution. And when I come out of vr, back to the desk top, it goes black. When  I go to the oculus  home page, it like watching water go down a plug hole.

I've also spent hours trying to get it to look right and smooth but to no avail. I' be used all the recommended software and reinstalled it move time's than I like to count, so I'm after a dedicated  headset  that plugs into the RTX rather than USB.

Thank you for your time and advice.

Rich

 

[qqwertz 732]

2 hours ago, RichD said:

The quest 2 is fine until I connect it to the pc, either link cable or air.  When I start it, I see the desktop fine, I can move my head and there is no lag or distortion. When I fire msfs, it starts to lose tracking and resolution.

Interesting. My Quest 2 is temperamental as well, it works really bad unless I start everything in the right sequence. I am not using any addon program, just Oculus Link and the Quest 2 with a USB cable. It works with reasonable frame rates (25-40fps, RTX 3070) if I do the following:

- put on the Q2, connect it to your PC with a USB cable, start Oculus Link

- start the simulator in normal mode, either by looking at the 2D monitor or by using the Q2 in desktop mode. Just make sure your Q2 does not go dark in the process (e.g., by taking it off)

-Once you are in your airplane, use shift-tab to change MSFS to VR mode

Peter

[RichD 17]

Thank you for your help, but I'm resolved to a change now. Too much trouble for me.

Rich

[joby33y 145]

I’ve been down that exact same road…quest 2 on a 2080Ti via link cable.  I wanted something to plug directly in to the GPU.  

For a new headset, I went with the Reverb G2.  I also upgraded to the 3080.  With enough tweaking and experimenting,  I’m getting a good balance of visuals and frames.  OpenXR toolkit helps with fine tuning.  

Asobo shows the Reverb as one of the few headsets that the sim is optimized for….seems like thats the way to go.  

 

[JCTamhult 1]

The reverb g2 is excellent. However, it takes a lot of tuning in Windows and in sim. I set renderscale in Openxr tools to 200 and in msfs settings to 50. That equals 100 but increases fps a lot. Also, you would probably set  world scale to 130 or the cockpits will appear small.

My cpu is a Ryzen 9 5909X and gpu Asus 6900xt oc. Fps are 35 - 38 @ 2,000 ft above Manhattan with Tlod @ 170 and Olod @ 120. Other settings = ultra except ambient occlusion and volumetric clouds = high and bloom off. Also TAA and DX12.

[VeryBumpy 271]

Curious if the OP got something different?

HP is going out of Reverb business. Lots of new, good HMD to sim with nowadays; especially if you don't care much about controllers and hand tracking.

[Fielder 3,322]

Along about 6" into this video, he says owners of a 30 series RTX can now buy a Pimax Crystal. This is because of the new 72 Hz mode from Pimax, which can be cut in half in the Pimax settings to 36 fps. And a 30 series RTX he says can run MSFS at 36 fps. He is running at a full 72 fps using a 4090 in this video.

Pimax Crystal. Tyrolean Alps. TBM 850

 

[Fielder 3,322]

In other words, it is no longer necessary to choose 90 or 45 Hz. Pimax now offers 90 or  45 or 72 or 36 fps. And lesser gpu's have enough horsepower to lock 36.