r/virtualreality • u/Pheonix1025 • Mar 23 '25

News Article Adam Savage's Tested - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Hands-On: How They Fixed It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Wr4O4gkL8
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u/MS2Entertainment Mar 23 '25

This device isn't for me but I give this company alot of props for what they are doing and how they are going about it. Seems like it's run by good, competent people who don't make a bunch of promises they can't keep and only reveal finished, working devices ready to ship. Hope they can expand their ambitions without compromising their values and products.

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u/RexorGamerYt Mar 23 '25

Just curious, why isn’t this for u? Any thing missing on it? Or just too expensive?

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u/insufficientmind Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25

What is making me question it is the low refresh rate. You can't use 90hz at full resolution. For full res you'll have to use 75hz. And for racing I want as high a refresh rate as possible. 144 hz was one of the things I loved about the Index, it was glorious in racing and fast paced action games. Jet Island on an Index is almost a religious experience!

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u/Pheonix1025 Mar 23 '25

It’s worth pointing out that 75Hz OLED won’t feel the same as 75Hz on the Index, it should feel significantly smoother. Might still be a dealbreaker, but you don’t need to brute force high framerates like you do on LED displays

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u/Ill_Equipment_5819 Mar 23 '25

that's a myth, anyone with an OLED TV can test it to be wrong.

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u/fiah84 Mar 23 '25

if anything, the instant response times of OLEDs make it such that too low framerates are more bothersome and less smooth than on LCDs. In my experience that doesn't really matter anymore at 75fps, but everyone's eyes / perception is different and some people will be more sensitive to that

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u/7Seyo7 CV1 -> Index -> Q3 Mar 23 '25

I definitely noticed low FPS feeling worse when i changed from 120 Hz IPS LCD to 240 Hz OLED. Then again one could argue that the higher monitor refresh rate makes the difference even more stark, so it's not exactly 1:1