Hello all!

After some research I upgraded my system in August, This week, I've setup my Reverb G2 (rev2). I took a flight from KSFO to inibuilds KLAX (with live traffic enabled). System handled it great. My concern is the views in the cockpit are blurry for most of the screen unless I'm directly concentrating on a specific area. (The "sweet spot") With the G2, is the sweet spot that small? I've adjusted the switch on the bottom of the headsets and it helped a tiny bit, but I was thinking I'd have better resolution. (The cost of the new PC was very prohibitive, so I did not go for a more expensive VR headset)

So! Are there any tips that worked for you that you wouldn't mind sharing? VR is 100% amazing, and it helps me taxi and land a billion times better (only slight exaggeration! lol) I'm willing to try almost anything for a better VR experience. Additionally, what VR headsets would you recommend (without going over $2K)?

 

For reference:

Reverb G2 (r2), i9 13900K, ASUS 4090, MSFS on a SAMSUNG .m2, 1600W power supply (Any other system component available upon request)

Open XR Toolkit installed.

Quest Pro is actually a great HMD & good value,

with EdgetoEdge clarity,

don’t be fooled by the published resolution - it is fine,

can be driven with a 3090 very well…

For G2, I scale up in OXR to 225% - 300%. With 4090 I can then set DLSS in MSFS to quality or balanced. High OXR scale really helps to squeeze out the best quality in G2. It is said that G2 needs super high resolution image to correct its bad optical distortion.

 

Edited September 12, 20232 yr by FlyIce

Quick question: Where can I find the settings to upscale at?

The closer you can get your eyes to the lenses, the larger the sweetspot gets and as a bonus bigger fov. I modified the facecover of my pico 4 to archieve this. There are also replacement facecovers available

2 hours ago, SKEWR said:

Quick question: Where can I find the settings to upscale at?

https://mbucchia.github.io/OpenXR-Toolkit/

Reverb G2 has a tiny sweetspot (sharp area of focus), that's just the way it is. I upgraded from the G2 to a Varjo Aero which is a huge step up in clarity i.e. 99% sweetspot but then you have to deal with Chromatic Aberation and no built in headphones on the Aero. 

Edited September 12, 20232 yr by toby23

@toby23

I do have that downloaded. I pressed CTRL F2 in the sim and can't see where to upscale. TY for the link tho.

I'll see if I can research more on getting closer to the lens.

@SKEWR  I wasn't using the OpenXR Toolkit, just OpenXR app from Windows. It's a simple app that lets you adjust a few things like scaling, motion reprojection, etc.  

Edited September 12, 20232 yr by FlyIce

I think you will find this video very useful. I used it for my Pico Neo 3 Link with very good results and this will also explain where to upscale in the OpenXR Toolkit.

Hope it helps.
 

 

@Steve Fisher Great video and I used most of his settings. (The color didn't seem right to me setting at the gate at LAX).

Thank you for sharing.

My biggest issue was confusing OpenXR toolkit Companion with  OpenXR Tools for Windows Mixed Reality. I was in the Kuro mod with live traffic on and my system did not like the 225% scale up. The readability of the cockpit was fantastic, however. I settled on 150 and maybe I'll push for 175.

 

Thanks everyone for your help!

I think it's important to people new to VR to start flying somewhere where's less demand on the graphics so the experience is smoother and yoiu wont feel sick right away. It's normal to experience some sickness but It'll go away pretty quickly. Just dont force it, take some time between flights.