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You can use it in different ways, and some of these are more likely to make you sick. I use snap turn, and I have absolutely no issues with it.

I disagree. The quality of the headset is not suddenly going to change depending on the game. If you look at the channel, then this person has only ever used Pimax. They also produce very little content. So they seem to lack broader knowledge. We also know that MRTV and a few other channels have experience with preproduction models, so they know roughly how long it takes to fix pre-production issues. Based on that, they can make a decent guess whether those issues will be fixed in time for release and Pimax has a reputation of not achieving this. In the video, this reviewer spends a lot of time glossing over issues. When he notes that eye tracking was disabled because it doesn't work well, he just takes Pimax' word for it, that they will make it work as well as in the Crystal. That is not being a critical reviewer, especially since the headset is supposed to ship in January and eye tracking is one of the main features! So the headset should have been done other than very tiny issues. The reviewer also goes on to explain that normal consumers don't notice the graphical issues that he notices, so he should just ignore the visual issues in the headset during the review. That is a pretty arrogant way to look at one's audience, where the reviewer apparently thinks that none of his viewers can notice these things. In contrast, MRTV explains what parts of the headset are better, worse or equal than other popular headsets, so viewers who have used one of those other headsets, then have a frame of reference. People have different preferences and different bodies, so this helps people determine whether the strengths and weaknesses of the headset work for them.

First of all, the GPUs are not getting less strong and price/performance does keep increasing, although not as fast as in the past. Of course, you, like many others, may feel that you are entitled to faster progress. But if you cannot distinguish between things getting worse versus your expectations not being met, then a fact-based discussion is not possible. Secondly, they did respond by a lack of sales for the 4080 by lowering the price of the 4080 Super and 5080 to $1k. And they dropped the price of the 5070 and 5070 Ti by $50. Motherboards have become more expensive and I paid twice as much for my current motherboard as for the previous of the same model (but an earlier gen), but there is still plenty of choice of good motherboards below $300. I'll look at MSRP, which is more objective, especially since you appear to have bought a previous generation card back then. The 1080 had a $699 MSRP in 2016. In todays money, with inflation, that makes for about $914. So the price of the 80-class has gone up, but not by that much. And the 4080 is over three times as fast, and the 5080 a bit faster still. So you get triple the performance for 10% more money if you adjust for inflation.

I would suggest that you may want to be a bit more skeptical, because if a single bad experience, that is not corroborated by others, leads you to question a company, then you effectively become a leaf in the wind. Every company will have some people upset with them, and at least in part because some customers are quite unreasonable. And no company will ever be perfect either. So if you let your opinion be shaped merely by the 'luck' of running into a single negative or positive review, then that won't have much to do with how well the company actually does. For that you need to look at the bigger picture. I disagree that forums should censor comments to create either an overly positive or overly negative view of a company.

Ultimately, the prices will be whatever the market will bear. If people don't buy enough of the cards for a certain price, then either the prices will go down, or the cards will become less strong, or a bit of both. But if they will buy enough, then complaining won't help any. Ferrari also doesn't care that most people either can't afford a Ferrari or considers the cars overpriced, because they sell enough at good margins. Although a complicating factor is that there is substantial demands for cards for AI. Waiting for the AI boom to deflate, which is almost certainly going to happen, might mean much better prices, in particular for the top tier. Then again, Nvidia seems to have decided that they will just delay new products if demand crashes. In itself, that is a sign that they don't consider AMD to be a sufficient threat to force them to keep an aggressive release schedule, or lower their prices if demand goes down. Note that according to economic theory, perfect competition that leaves no room for shenanigans, requires a whole lot of things to be true, that are never true in practice. (Economists have a habit of 'solving' difficult problems by pretending that the complications do not exist). You don't need a monopoly for there to be abusive business practices.

And you completely ignore that the other person was not just explaining their own decision, but was talking about what they want others to do. At that point I do expect a better reason than 'it exceeded my own personal and very subjective threshold.' @SharpeXB In a perfectly competitive market, there is no room for greed, as one would be outcompeted. However, in reality there are a variety of ways in which companies can take advantage of consumers.

VR headsets make it seem like the visuals are at a distance, so you need to use your distance results.

Almost nothing in your comment actually engages with my arguments. I never claimed that Nvidia showed respect for customers or such. But you fail to reply to my argument that they've showed a lack of respect to customers for the last generations as well, lying each and every time. So why would this generation be the one where one should boycott Nvidia due to them deceiving customers? I'm still waiting for a rational answer. And my point remains that for the 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070, price/performance seems to increase with the announced pricing. So if you judge the cards on their own merits, then one should buy the 5080 over the 4080, the 5070 Ti over the 4070 Ti and the 5070 over the 4070, assuming MSRP, or similar markups compared to MSRP. Yes, but I've also seen the opposite, where criticism of the new generation leads people to falsely believe that the older card in the same tier is somehow faster.

@kksnowbear I understand that people get frustrated and angry, but it leads to rather silly statements, that in turn can deceive people into doing irrational things. I checked and @The_Nephilim owns a 4070 Ti. The 5070 Ti should be a modest improvement in price/performance over the 4070 Ti, so it is silly to argue that people should not buy the 50-series. They should buy it if they need a new card (in this class), or if it is a sufficient improvement in their view, and there is no better alternative for their situation/preferences/etc. And complaining about the value of the 5090 is like complaining that a Ferrari doesn't provide value for money. At the top end, the design goal is not value for money. Ultimately, @The_Nephilim didn't say not to buy the 5090 specifically, but all of the 50-series cards. So you don't get to cherry pick a single card to defend his statement. I don't believe the nonsense, but Nvidia also lied about the 40-series, the 30-series, and about the 20-series (which is great for raytracing, right? RIGHT?). I just ignore the lies and look at the actual product. But obviously, @The_Nephilim doesn't actually believe that the lying is the problem, because he did buy a 40-series card. That he got lied to about. So the lying clearly is not the actual issue. Besides, if you dismiss an actually good product because of false marketing, then you are actually making the same mistake as when you like a bad product because of false marketing. In both cases you ignore the traits of the actual product in favor of smoke and mirrors. The question remains to what extent Nvidia is greedy, or to what extent circumstances changed. If the interests of gamers and business demand used to match up well, with both wanting lots of rasterization, then gamers benefit, because the cost of rasterization hardware R&D can be shared between gamers and business, and Nvidia can make GPU dies that are great for both use cases. But if now businesses want different things, then gamers are worse off because Nvidia spends lots of R&D and die space on AI cores and other things, even though it doesn't benefit gamers that much. And if the advance in process nodes slows down, then Nvidia no longer gets the same 'free' performance from the chip makers, and so they also can't pass that on, so we no longer get that big jump in extra performance for the same price thanks to the chip makers. But people are notoriously bad at understanding things like this. For example, they tend to blame or praise politicians for economic downturns or economic booms that the politician has little control over.

@TK-421 You may have a defective headset. Foveated rendering has nothing to do with this. It just results in some parts of the screen being sharper than others.

I have never used the G2, but I consider the sound of the Quest to be acceptable. It's very personal, though. People generally seem to prefer the G2 sound, but the difference seems small enough that I've not seen people consider this a big issue, when they switched from a G2 to a Quest 3.

You mean that you dislike that the price went down for the 5070 and 5070 Ti?

This is a very silly comment. First of all, the 9070 XTX doesn't exist. AMD will release the 9070 XT, so without the extra X. Secondly, whether it is DOA (for DCS) depends on the price/performance, which we cannot judge right now, since we don't know the exact performance or price.

First of all, I think that you are severely overestimating how many FPS shooters run at 300+ FPS. I'm pretty sure that a minority of people who play those games even have a 300+ FPS monitor/TV, and even then they may choose eye candy over maxxing FPS. Secondly, testing shows that Reflex works better if the frame rate is lower:

Recently I've seen people who were surprised by how well the software worked, so then I concluded that they improved relative to their reputation. But I don't have first hand experience with the Crystal Light, but I also don't know how high your standards are.

@Tensorial_Architect I suspect that you used the Crystal & Crystal Light early on. From what I've seen on the forums, they've improved the software a lot since then. The main issue with the Crystal Light now seems to be the poor QA, so a relatively high percentage of shipped headsets have hardware issues. @Youtch My suggestion would be to get a Crystal Light with a 5080. You can probably get the 5080 within a few month, especially if you join one of the discords that watches for supply at retailers. And you might have to send back the Crystal Light anyway, if it has issues. And otherwise you can start using it with the 3080 at first.

The standard handtracking is trained on a large range of users and environments, so it is not going to as accurate as handtracking trained for a specific user and environment. Of course, it makes sense for Meta to focus all their effort on the far more user friendly version, since few people will want to train a model for 20 hours. However, it would be nice to have that option.

@Tensorial_Architect I did see it, but I thought that it would only be useful if you write your own application, which appears to be the case. So that makes it unusable for almost everyone. What are you outputting at the end? Are you mimicking a mouse?

Why would anyone make an unbiased LLM when you can bake your own biases into the thing to make it work 'correctly'? It's like expecting unbiased journalism.

I can find no other mention of this. Perhaps they only published it very briefly and you got lucky? @SnowTiger You can use the USB cable for both power and signal. You will need a relatively high speed USB cable. Not one of the ultra-cheap ones that are primarily for charging and send data at one bit per second.

Oh yes, I forgot about that. That would make the price difference less of an issue, since he can keep the grip.

That's not how it works. It's impossible to spread the load exactly evenly unless the work is all the same, which is not the case for games. And if workloads have interdependencies, then you can't just move part to a different core without causing big slowdowns. That doesn't mean that the code can't possibly be optimized much better, but you will never get infinite scalability.

This is a review by a dedicated heli simmer: https://www.helisimmer.com/reviews/thrustmaster-ava-base He mentions that due to a lacking clutch, the stick won't remain in place, so you have to hold it all the time. The Mongoose seems to be better in that regard, but it does mean that you have to get a different grip, so it's probably a decent amount more costly for you: https://www.helisimmer.com/reviews/virpil-vpc-mongoost-50cm3-joystick-base Although you may be able to sell the Warthog.

@Youtch You are definitely not getting a Somnium for only 1000 euro more than a Crystal Light. I don't think that the value is there for anything but the Crystal Light and Quest 3, where the former is more designed for PCVR and can scale better to higher quality. Keep in mind that VR advances a lot more quickly than GPUs, so the depreciation on a headset is going to be worse as well. If you have a 4080 already, my advice is to get the Crystal Light and then enjoy that for a while. It should be a large step up from the G2. Do you have to spend that extra 1000 euro right now? If not, I would just go fly and enjoy yourself. A 4080 + Crystal Light is an excellent combination. Any further upgrades are just going to be rather costly for relatively low gains. If you keep that 1k in your pocket, you are ready to take any opportunities that may come along, like a surprise headset that is great for simming, a possible 5080 Ti, a good 5000-series refresh, or just upgrade your card next generation for a substantial better gain for the same money.

@Youtch I find your question a bit confusing, since a 5080 is probably going to be quite close to a 4090. I get the feeling that you are talking yourself into a problem. It's pretty certain that you will have much better visuals if you get a 5080 and a Crystal Light, than with the G2 and the presumably slower GPU that you have. So why do you think that is not good enough? Let's say that you get the regular Crystal instead of the Light. You'll gain eye tracking, but you'll have a much less comfortable headset, and have to deal with charging the battery a lot. And most importantly, the price difference is so large that you can easily get a second hand 4090 instead. And then you won't have the comfort and battery issues. Or lets say that you get a 2nd hand Quest Pro. You'll gain eye tracking, but the quality of the screen is lower. So you gain FPS, but at the expense of visuals. But then you can also just turn the visuals down a bit with the Crystal Light and do without the eye tracking. So my advice is to get out of this mindset that there is something that you are missing out on and instead get the best setup that fits within your budget and restrictions.