It's not reasonably priced, but still impressive in that he said he saw ZERO moire or CA and only had pupil swim around the very edges of the display. He said it was the best aspheric lens system he's ever seen with the widest FOV and best edge to edge clarity even compared to the Quest Pro pancakes.
For all the complaints about price, they have dropped the price a lot compared to the XR-3. So this is actually a move in the right direction. Better tech at lower pricing.
Since it is using two lenses like the Somnium VR1, it makes me wonder if those optics will also be in the best aspherics lens category.
Con's:
- "Edge distortion" and "It warps a bit". So the warping doesn't seem to be solved. After all these years, the biggest Varjo issue is seem to be still there.. But sometimes Sadly doesn't wear the HMD correctly on his head, this also seemed to be the case in this video; because at the FoV part he tells that he didn't wear it correctly; after adjusting the HMD he at once had much more FoV. Witht the Crystal he made the same mistake(but he didn't correct it/didn't want to correct it because of his pimax hate), so it's not completely clear IF the distortion was still there after he adjusted the headset. We have to wait for more info about this from other users to see if the Varjo warping issue is solved or not. Because of what I mentioned sadly isn't completely objective when it comes to this subject.
- The local dimming, according to sadly, also still seems to be not implemented properly from what I understand from him. Because the blacks/contrast of the Crystal are very close to what I experienced from a OLED panel when I use the 0.01 json fix. I hope that it's much better than the Aero, the contrast/blacks/colors; we have to wait for more info about this.
- Regarding the form factor: The design looks very VERY long/deep, even double as long as the Crystal if you look at his head from side! It looks just nuts, I hope that the weight isn't all the way at the front of the HMD and that's even without the local dimming module mounted(which makes it even longer probably). Maybe that's going to be even to much for me... I'm a bit concerned about the comfort. The Aero wasn't comfortable for me, this design looks unclear, have to test it and judge it myself.
- The price is extreme. Maybe an Aero 2 without MR and other features will be properly priced at the initial Aero price.
- Comes with camera tracking by default, price of lighthouse tracking is insane with 1200 euro.
Pro's:
- The CA/color shifting seem to be solved which is a great great thing.
- Resolution is amazing.
- Edge to edge clarity (except possible warping) seems to be amazing.
- FoV is great and probably the stereo overlap too(I expect that, based on the FoV).
- The nits are amazing.
This sounds VERY promising for the Aero 2. Let's hope that the warping isn't really there/or that they find a way to fix this and the same for the local dimming. Because especially the warping was a massive issue of the Aero for me, but I also want proper blacks. It's also not clear if they solved the motion blur issues, but I expect that they did(BUT it's dangerous to go by assumtions when it comes to VR, has to be validated first). If that's all clear and the comfort isn't too bad then I'll surely consider buying an Aero 2 if it's not more than ~2500 euro including tax and lighthouse tracking.
I'm sure more people will move away from triples eventually, but I think we still have a while to wait before it makes sense for many people to consider.
True but it has to get way more affordable first(not only the HMD but you also need the best GPU). And also become more user friendly first. It's insane how much I had to tweak everything, average users won't be able to do that so they get a much worse experience than me.
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There is hype and dump but vr headsets is like headphones. There is always compromises made.
