HP Reverb G2 – Unboxing, Tracking Tests & First Impressions

Can I use this from a stationary position (sitting down on a chair and not moving around), as in a swivel chair? I am a disabled 75-year-old man who loves astronomy and plans to try to find a good planetarium stimulation (if there is one) and I would love to find a roller coaster stimulation also. A lot of shooter games are probably a waste of time for me.... I would love to dig into a good human anatomy stimulation. Also gotta dig into engine tear-down and exploded viewing of mechanical stimulations... Is any of this possible with this headset ? Or am I gonna have to send the thing back and try a different headset ?

Do you "REALLY" have to place the controllers up to your face. I think you could look down scope without over exaggerating the closeness of the controller. I think you just need to adjust your hand locations.

Ik wist wel dat ze nederlands waren ik hoorde het al aan je Engels

well this made me feel that I have made the right decision going Quest 2 with Link. MRTV is just hard to trust as everyone else has complained about the tracking yet he said it was fine. sketchy tracking is lot more of a concern than the slightly reduced clarity of the Quest 2.

Not a massive criticism but would appreciate seeing prices in gdp for us ignorant brits.
Thanks!

Received it yesterday, returning it tomorrow😪

in the game where you're trying to shoot through iron-sights, you keep missing the targets because you're not using the sights correctly. the idea is NOT just to put the front sight over the target. you have to get your target in-line with the front sight AND the rear sight! the front sight needs to be nested in the notch of the rear sight and the target beyond that.

If i was buying my very first VR and had to choose between quest 2 and HP reverb g2 which path should i go?

How is the tracking vs the Quest 2? I am trying to decide between the two and have a hard time. I will want to play mostly PC games since I have a powerful PC

As a simulator/cockpit VR guy this headset gives me child like excitement.
Now no one can hide from my Railguns in Elite Dangerous 😈

Windows Mixed Reality or/and Steam VR to play a flight sim with this headset?

You can use index controllers just search on yt how to use index controllers on the g2 and the first video should help you out this also works on other wmr headsets The software lets you use base station tracking in wmr witch is required for the index controllers to work since base station tracking is in the wmr software but no headsets use it since it's required for all wmr headsets to use inside-out tracking

Hi you cheked reverb g2 with YawVR ? how work hp reverb g2 work with motion compensation ? Thanks :)

You were right about tracking, it's a matter of small volume tracking. I'm disappointed by HP! Thanks for the good review!

What about for art?

After market rings for this vr would make big money 💵

Was open to considering this as an upgrade from the Index, but it's not quite there yet. Better display, but Index is still the king in most other fields. Love how quickly the tech is developing though!

Oculus just added 90 hz support on Quest 2. Do you think to do a comparison between Quest 2 connected through link cable and Reverb g2? (I play VR mainly for flight simulators so I do not use controllers often). Thanks!

thanks for the honesty. I'll keep my htc vive i guess :| I subscribed back because of this!
I was dissapointed with the quest 2 review and videos since you didn't mention the downsides of the view but seeing how you didn't cherry coat this and praise the tracking and everything about this headset I subbed back

i had the g1 and even with perfect tracking those controllers are awful. 6 hour of battery life. Constantly need a fresh AA battery (only non rechargable) and the haptic feedback was so indescribably bad. the controllers are like one of those cheap Chinese knockoff ps4 controllers that never work

also had the g1 with those tracking rings, i hated them, you're the only one who mentioned that issue

For me the big question around tracking is: Is it good enough for LIV-style Mixed Reality? The specs and use seem fantastic, but I don't want to give up my Holodeck!
Also, that top is sick.

Does it work with vive base stations ?

Thanks for these first impressions, Cas and Chary! Great video!

Hello! Great video and test, as always 👍🏻
My question would be, can we use this g2 headset with index controllers? Or even using index lighthouses with the g2 headset?

The controller are over-sized bruh! I feel a disturbance in the VR force. Oculus produced some fine games for PCVR, Valve made one, who will make the games? You can make all the sweet, high tech headsets you want but what about the games? If you make the games, they will come. How many games has HP made? Not many if any.

Can you use or buy another controls for the headset which give you more preccision??

I received my G2 a few days ago but these tracking issues really have me worried. I haven't even opened it yet and I'm considering reselling it 😐

Ill be playing onward pavlov vrchat and phasmaphobia should i get htc vive og or the rift s or the reveb g2

I just don't get why people are comparing the Reverb G2 to the Quest 2.
the Quest 2 is $299 USD while the Reverb G2 is $599 USD.
You can get 2 Quest 2s with that! It's just not a fair comparison

Anybody else having problems with the display in Beat Saber? It’s as if the lenses are shaking or the ipd adjustment is loose or something. It makes playing beat saber less enjoyable to be sure where I found no problems with the tracking. I never had this problem my quest 1.

The microphone is quite clear. How would you rate the tracking against headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 and Valve Index on a scale.

The tracking on the Rift S went from terrible to some of the best of any Inside Out tracked headset just with a software update. A simple software update could fix a lot of these issues very quickly, just give HP time to test it and work out better solutions. Sucks that the headset released at this time, because I literally just bought new PC parts and no longer have the money for a headset as well. I'm excited to pick it up when the issues have been solved, though.

Hello. Is the resolution much better than Oculus Quest 2? I had Quest 1, but the resolution was not so good and big screen door effect. Thank You

very, very good first impressions 👍

If the tracking is not good enough for some people, they can use the valve knuckles and the lighthopuse tracking with the G2...if they want to spent the extra money

MRTV have no problem with reloading weapons

I would've paid an extra hundred or so dollars for better controllers and/or tracking. I think then it would be a "no-compromise headset."

The clip breaking in half says less about the build quality and more about your physical strength! ;-)

ill just wait for deca gear..the price on this set is a lil to high for me

How do get it in the Nederlands?

So do you prefer this over the valve index? Headset only considered..

this is exactly the info i needed, since i'm not into doing shooters but more rpg games when it comes to action, i am pleased to see that the bow and arrow movements isnt a problem, still sad to see that it has issues on some of the tracking, this headset looks like the right sweet spot price headset that delivers to a reasonable price, just need that tracking sorted out and it's the headset that shows you can actually get what you pay for at reasonable prices when it comes to vr.

great video, thank you.

hmm I'm worried after this review the tracking is the only thing stopping me buying this headset i mean its the best headset money can buy when it comes to the picture audio etc but how important is all of that combined if the tracking lets it down

I'm getting it, as I only really want it for sims, so long as the head tracking is fine, I'm good with that

@Cas and Chary VR I saw on VR flight sim guy's livestream that the headset was too big for his girlfriend unless he did something wrong, did you notice if the adjustments were limiting? What's your head size?

I really hope there's a work around for using iron sights/scopes to have it work reliably for the time being, I'd get frustrated if it failed 1% of the time honestly. Thanks for the content!

HP will eventually work out the controller kinks I'm sure , I'm still waiting for my HP pre-order and refreshing my email so often it is getting silly.Thank you.

Please test Is HP Reverb G2 compatible with TWINMOTION and UNREAL ENGINE

No one is going to buy it