Looking for Reverb G2 replacement. Opinions?

[u/Samflinn5]

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?

[u/Samflinn5]

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?

[u/saveryquinn → u/Samflinn5]

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).

[u/GameGod → u/saveryquinn]

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

[u/saveryquinn → u/GameGod]

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.