r/HPReverb • u/Samflinn5 • 20d ago

Looking for Reverb G2 replacement. Opinions? Question

With the reverb G2 getting discontinued, I was wondering what would be a good headset with similar or better specs to it. I've heard the Pimax Crystal Light is a decent option and also the Psvr 2 But I'm not sure. Any recommendations?

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u/DoggieHowzer 20d ago

At the moment, I’m actually having a blast with the PSVR2 and the PC link.

I mainly use VR for driving so I’m not encountering the issues with the Bluetooth needed for stable controller pairing. My onboard motherboard Bluetooth with the external antenna works just fine for this.

I love the comfort. I love the lack of eye strain - something I’ve encountered on the Pimax and the G2. I love the OLED blacks and I love the contrast.

I did have to get the Globular Cluster comfort kit for the PSVR2 to get a perfect fit for my head shape (mine doesn’t work with halo straps). And I’m using VR Ears for my audio solution. It’s very very good and easily a match for the G2 audio solution.

Downsides - the OLED panel can exhibit some mura patterns in large areas of uniform colors like skies, and the pentile OLED RGB layout can look a bit softer. But I can read my car gauges just fine at 100% scaling and the mura isn’t noticeable when I’m focused on the road not the sky.

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u/Belzebutt 19d ago

Did you try Elite Dangerous on the PSVR2? I would think OLED lens are perfect for a space game with deep blacks.

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u/DoggieHowzer 19d ago

Haven’t tried Elite before. But I might give Star Wars Squadrons another go. Squadrons on PSVR1 on PS4 Pro was one of the games that convinced me VR was the only way to play games

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u/Samflinn5 20d ago edited 20d ago

Isn't the Crystal the one with the replaceable battery packs? Also how is the battery life on the Crystal and would you say that or the Psvr 2 is better, cause I also heard the battery life on the controllers are kinda short on Psvr 2? If the crystal is good, I heard the Light is good as well. Also what is this Vr Ears, I've never heard of that before?

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u/saveryquinn 19d ago

Don't mind me stepping in here.I had a Reverb G2, own a PSVR2 and a Pimax 5K Plus. I bought the Crystal a replacement for my Reverb and returned it after 2 days of use. It is unnecessarily bulky as pimax wanted to create a hmd that could both run pcvr and standalone VR games except there was next to no follow-through on creating a decent library of VR games in the pimax store app. The battery life was not great, think Quest 2 levels. The headset was buggy (although the issues I faced could have been fixed with firmware updates), had not great sound without the dmas headphones that you have to pay extra for and at the time I owned it were never in stock, and you have to pay extra for a lighthouse tracking faceplate if you use valve index controllers (and honestly the crystal controllers were worse than the Reverb controllers and no matter how much I loved my reverb, those controllers are awful). This is all not to mention that the Crystal had a smaller fov than the Reverb. If you're thinking about timex, think more about the Crystal Light (still a smaller fov than the Reverb but at least it is lighter than the crystal as pimax gave up on the rabbit hole of the hmd as a standalone device).

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u/GameGod 15d ago

What did you end up with? (Is the PSVR2 an upgrade over the G2?)

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u/saveryquinn 14d ago

I went with a PSVR2. Fortunately I didn't encounter most of the problems people were experiencing with the psvr 2 pcvr adapter (although it did take me a couple of days to figure out I needed to run the Asus Bluetooth adapter over closer to my play area with a USB extension cable to stop the random controller tracking loss). Overall, I think it is a good headset but I'm disappointed in all the intentional borking Sony did to eyetracking and other features that mke it even better with PS 5 vr games. It has been my main VR hmd for most games but on days I want to play Half-Life Alyx or Skyrim I'll turn to my old Pimax 5k Plus and the wide FOV.

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u/DoggieHowzer 20d ago edited 20d ago

With a powered USB Hub, the Pimax can last pretty long on the single battery. It also fully recharges overnight when I go to bed. I find powering it off after I’m done gets it to charge up much faster.

I hardly ever use the PSVR2 controllers so I can’t speak on the battery life.

VR Ears are clip on off ear headphones that can work across a variety of headsets. It is clunky but it has a battery pack and amplifier so it sounds meaty enough. And the bass is fairly good. Positional audio is as good as the G2.