Varjo XR4 is not as good as we expected for PCVR gaming

[putrokasi]

Pros: good build quality Excellent speakers(better than G2) Very high res+decent fov(110+ hfov with 100 vfov, slightly less than their claims) Quest Pro style design so no face hug feeling, pressure concentrated to ur forehead)+ active cooling to prevent foggy up

Cons: very poor software stack and compatibility, lots of crashes with current version of Varjo base and SteamVR, can’t run games such as MSFS2020, dynamic foveated rendering can’t be turned off so can’t measure edge to edge clarity Very front heavy(similar overall weight to the Pimax Crystal) Very bad inside out tracking with that razer controllers, constantly floating around, worse than Pimax Crystal

I was hoping Varjo to beat every competitor with their highest specs hmd, but at its current state, it’s not even a viable option for sims,maybe after sometime Varjo will fix those issues.

[RuneSR2]

I'm still looking for a hmd to replace the Index, but I'm not prepared to accept lower refresh rates, smaller fov, worse sound/speakers, worse controllers, or worse SteamVR performance. 

Testing Aero and Index, both set to the same software res, Index was about 50% faster due to running native SteamVR drivers in the OpenVR Benchmark. Surely Aero may perform better with OpenXR and supported foveated rendering with eye tracking, but I'm not into the extremely few sims supporting that - so Varjo, even with the Aero, has always been dead to me. 

Maybe BigScreen Beyond could be interesting, but fov looks small, refresh rates are very limited and the ipd is fixed so my sons may have trouble using it.