@turbomax, yes they go on top of the other of course, organic lenses are the normal nowadays, more comfy, more durable, less weight, and in an VR the weight is very important even for the primary lenses that are very big in the G2. They are much more comfy than wear glasses and inside the HMD and maintain more clean and less possibility of mist, totally recommended. I thought the common attachment system is magnetic in the G2 too, like Oculus I think, I didn´t almost force to install them and didn´t felt any click haha, and they are still there perfect.

 

"Crispy crystal clear" is a way to speak about good nitidity, clarity, transparency etc.

Edited March 7, 20233 yr by peloto

3 hours ago, peloto said:

thought the common attachment system is magnetic in the G2

no they are clip on, not magnetic. The Pimax Crystal has magnetic attachment, easier to swap the 2 different set of lenses it comes with.

11 hours ago, peloto said:

@FlyIce  try CAS selected in Oxr toolkit https://mbucchia.github.io/OpenXR-Toolkit/ at around 60% for clarity and in foveated option in Quality-Wide for more performance. Resolution override 3800x3xxx in Toolkit too, maybe equivalent to 120% in OXR Tools, not Toolkit.

I have a G2 12900k+4900 and the G2 clarity is really really good, excellent, if you have the lenses or you glasses clean of course haha, I have a magnetic lenses inserted since a pair of months too. G2 are really crispy crystal clear in the middle and excellent resolution at its max expression possible in the G2. MSFS has something too that is not so clear without CAS like other games, maybe other games in 110-120%, I do not notice more clearness above that in the G2.

 

The problem are the game resolutions and its AA etc., not the G2 lenses, that are not perfect like the small sweetspot, yes.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the CAS you're referring to?

3 hours ago, Rob G said:

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the CAS you're referring to?

It is a setting in the Open XR Toolkit (as alternative for NIS or FSR)

On 3/7/2023 at 9:43 AM, turbomax said:

lets see what the first responders have to say about the new Pimax Crystal. $ 400 less than Varjo aero, plus it includes headphones, inside-out-tracking, glass lenses, dynamic foveated rendering, both same resolution of 2880*2880 pixel. small sweet spot shouldn't be an issue anymore with dynamic foveated rendering. it's always maximum resolution wherever your fovea is currently looking at.

Left image: varjo aero    Right: HP Reverb G2

What sim is that?  And how accurate is that comparison photo?  I'd probably agree about the clarity of the G2...  once you get out of the 30% center everything is very blurry.  I think this is why VR is cool as a tech demo but it makes me feel like I'm using an arcade game for the graphics.  If I can't even get 1080p-look throughout the entire range of vision it seems like going back 15 years graphically.  At first, with MSFS and the G2, I thought I'd consider moving to VR permanently but after a while the fuzziness of the outer 2/3 of FOV is just annoying.  The Varjo Aero appears to do a much better job.  Does anyone here have both?  The Aero is a lot more pricey but it seems the sweet spot is far larger than the G2's.

1 hour ago, ryanbatc said:

Does anyone here have both?

 

On 3/7/2023 at 4:02 AM, FlyIce said:

and turn on windows game mode to make sure MSFS runs on core#0-7

Hmmm...I'd missed this first time through. 

I recently installed the Ryzen 7 7700x in anticipation of saving enough to put one of the 4xxx range of GPUs in place of my present 3080Ti.  The 7700x runs fine, but having Games Mode 'Off' has been such a mantra for so long with both XP-11 and MSFS in VR that I never even thought to make a change with the upgrade.  I'll try a comparison this evening and report back.  Thanks for the tip! 

Edited March 18, 20233 yr by AJZip

"and turn on windows game mode to make sure MSFS runs on core#0-7"

that should only be necessary on AMD's that have 2 core types: with and without 3d-cache, like the 7950x3D to force MSFS to run on the 3d-cache enabled cores, the other ones you could even disable in the BIOS, but not required with the upcoming 7800x3D which has 3d-cache cores only. the latter is the one everybody is waiting for on April 6th at only $ 449 and outperforming the Intel i13900K.