Just reaffirms that I'm going to love this headset!
His main issue was glare which is much less than the Index and I never noticed it with the Index. He also mentioned that after a couple hours he thought it felt a little clammy. He did say that after an hour or so with it he must have adapted to it because he stopped noticing the glare.
Basically he thinks the field of view is excellent, the blacks are better than local dimming and will blow your socks off and he said that it was definitely bright enough and that microphone is better than any other microphone out there.
An interesting comment was that this is the first VR Headset that you actually look cool wearing.
Since making the video, he has also said that he want's to be clear that the BSB does not outresolve the Crystal/Aero. He said there is a noticeable difference.
To be clear I was not expecting the BSB to look better to him than either the Crystal or Aero. His movements are all smooth and he is perfectly happy wearing a "comfy helmet" We are still at the stage of making compromises based on our personal priorities. For me the BSB has plenty of serious upsides that I'm excited about because of how I used my headset and my priorities. I'm NOT expecting everyone with an Aero or Crystal to get a BSB, although some will.
I'm actually surprised at the number of Aero owners who ordered a BSB and how many others ordered both a Crystal and a BSB. There should be a LOT of comparisons between them coming up in the next 3-4 months.
I just saw the video and I noticed (besides the hype, of course he hopes that people click on his affiliate link and order one, same as MRTV/Sebastian does; he also hypes everything on default first) the following things that he noted on the negative side:
- it doesn't compete to the Crystal for edge to edge clarity
- it's not as bright as the Crystal
- maybe little bit less sweetspot then pico 4 on the edges
- has glare/smudging at edges, while there is zero glare at the crystal, "
the glare is kind of spoiling it for me"
"some kind of foggy on edges"
- less FoV vertically as the Crystal (horizonally also when I look at all measurements/opinions until now but he didn't mention that in this video specifically)
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"lack of ventilation", "it's a bit like a vacuum", "you will feel clamby after a while"
- "
I do still feel that the Crystal is the very best image quality that you can get in VR"
On the positive side he noted:
- 75Hz, I would really like to have that on the Crystal as an addition for ACC/future titles(and flight sims once I start with that)
- small size, impressive what can be done these days with such a small hmd
- amazing visuals during night flying
- amazing microphone(I don't use it)
But to be honest, I don't see what upsides it actually has over the Crystal? Except Pimax's company history (but I have a great experience), 75Hz, lighthouse tracking without mod's/extra costs/faceplate or dongle, night racing/flying and the size of the HMD (but the Crystal is super comforable for me, and I don't have the ventilation/vacuum/clamby issue, so maybe it's not even a real benefit of the BSB... because he's not the first one to talk about this subject in a worrisome way).
The Crystal is IMO still the better option. It has over the BSB: even better resolution, even better clarity, no glare, way more nits, adjustable IPD, more FoV, eye tracking(almost, makes a HUGE difference in terms of performance in titles as DCS/ACC) so simply better visuals when compared side by side.
If he is getting clammy with just civillian flight sim then whats going to happen in racing where your heart rate climbs and you have much more exertion.
How much someone sweats in a HMD varies a lot from person to person. That's my experience until now. But yes in sim racing you would surely sweat a lot more than in flight simming... I had issues with the G2's heat regarding sweat/fogging, issues that I don't have with the Crystal but a friend of me even sweats with the Crystal, this while it has 2 small fans/the Crystal is cool/not hot at all, but it's just because of the intensity of the sim racing itself+high summer temp's probably.
So if you combine that with a non breating material and non cooled displays(as with the BSB), then it could become an issue for sim racing indeed.
A small Crystal update for the one's that own one: I managed to
solve the blooming for 100% while keeping the maximum black performance as is possible with the Crystal (slightly less good as OLED, but as close as neglectable): this simply by chaning the config.json in the appdata / local / pimax / runtime map to: "local_dimming_black_level" : 0.01 (default extreme setting is 0(this creates blooming) and second option is highlights(this solves blooming but has more grey blacks)). Pimax is insane that they didn't make this the default for the Crystal.
