I currently have a Quest 2 and a pc with a 1080ti. I have a lot of games on the quest store and a couple PCVR games (Eg: Blade & Sorcery, Half-Life Alyx, etc.) I’m looking to upgrade my headset for Christmas and two headsets caught my eye. The HP Reverb G2 and the Meta Quest 3. I have a budget of around $500. I am already in the Quest ecosystem so it would be easier to get the Quest, but I’ve heard the HP Reverb G2 is a great option. I have the power to handle both in PCVR and I can use the Quest 3 in standalone if I want. Which one would be better for PCVR and which should I get?
I'm not sure exactly what range of answers you are hoping to get on a Meta community forum but, for what it's worth I'll start. I think the Quest 3 is a better package now. It's optically superior and, if you pair it with a wifi 6e access point or decent cable, capable of near-flawless PCVR. The G2 is still a decent PCVR-only headset with probably the best fresnel optics available for less than £1000, but those optics are easily trounced by the pancake lenses in the Q3, it's been discontinued, has cable reliability and availability problems and is reliant on WMR, which is heading for deprecation.
I've got the first generation Reverb G2 (the second generation fixed the utter crap lower field tracking and the cable).
The WMR software is really bad. The controllers are bad. Controller tracking is bad (but better if you get the second gen). Audio and visuals are very good.
I much prefer my Rift-S over my Reverb G2.
If you are playing simulators with no vr controllers (using HOTAS or similar) the Reverb is probably fine, assuming the software doesn't ruin it.
On the Elite Dangerous forum (it also supports VR) a comment was posted by a Reverb G2 owner who recently bought the Quest 3 - simply put, he had put the Reverb away and is using the Q3 as he considers it to be a better experience.
I can only compare against the Valve Index (mine died a few months ago) and the Q3 is considerably clearer on both that game and HL: Alyx
I honestly never thought I'd praise the Q3 above the Index, I was wrong...
Now all I need is for meta to sort out their handling of modern AMD GPUs!
AMD driver 23.12.1 which came out a couple of days ago has a small improvement in VR performance, maybe solely due to HAGS, but at least improved.
The thread is about Quest 3 vs Reverb G2, not Quest 2 vs Reverb G2.
Anyway, since Microsoft has deprecated Windows Mixed Reality and it won't be part of their future OS, I certainly wouldn't recommend a Reverb G2 (which needs WMR to work) as its future is up in the air at the moment.
