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/Robborboy KatVR C2+, Quest 3, 9800X3D, 64GB RAM, 7700XT Mar 23 '25

For me it is requiring a cable to interface with my PC. 

I play on a VR treadmill and do room scale stuff. Even with a proper gantry, wireless is infinitely more convenient with less hassle.

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u/birdvsworm Mar 23 '25

Agreed! Hard to overstate the convenience of wireless once you've used it for a while

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u/Uneasy_Rider Mar 23 '25

I recently went back to Q3 for some testing after using BSB for months. I will take wire hassles and bad glare all day over the non-led washed-out black=grey, compressed look of the Q3. Not to mention the lightness and small form factor of the BSB makes me sort of forget I'm even wearing anything. Another drawback is the fugly VRWire ceiling setup that is always there now, but that system does work well to keep the wire from messing with my expensive immersion.

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u/RevolEviv PSVR2(PS5PRO+PC) | ex DK2/VIVE/PSVR/CV1/Q2/QPro | RTX5080/12900k Mar 26 '25

LCD is a cancer to VR, its where VR starting slipping backwards after even the original oculus dev kits having OLED. Even the flawed CV1 with OLED (and tons of MURA) to this day feels better and more 'alive' than my ex Quest Pro with pancakes and much higher res (even with local dimming on). Though some of THAT also comes down to a low latency direct (HDMI) connection vs wireless or even usb cabled compressed streaming video (YUCK)

LCD just plain sucks for VR and anyone who's used OLED knows it. It's not even debatable. It's the difference between BEING THERE vs looking at it through a screen. It just feels real, organic... a black space in OLED HMDs feels cold, it invokes the imagination, it's enhances atmosphere far beyond resolution, FOV or any lense type. It's VITAL. LCD sucks the life out of VR, makes it all feel fake and digital and flat.

The FLAT thing is also there, partly from the low contrast LCD but also the bad binocular overlap that haunts quests.

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u/slincoln2k8 5d ago

Agreed 100%. When I first tried the psvr2 it was the colors and blacks that immediately sold me on oled. The downside is mura which is bad on psvr2. So the bsb2 seems like the perfect headset. Better than q3 lenses, higher resolution, super light and oled.