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Hey people, been flying around some time now, the past couple of years reverted to VR and never looked back. 
 

Now, to the problem at hand. I have a relatively mid to low end system. Running an old i5 8600 3.6 with 40gigs ram and an RX580 8gigs. 
 

I run the 1st gen Oculus Rift (now Meta) VR headset. Given its limited capabilities, I was wondering if the purchase of a more modern headset would improve my visuals. With my current VR it is impossible to discern the letters on the Viper MFDs and panels unless I zoom. I would really like to be able to read them somewhat clearly. 
Keeping in mind that the pc setup cannot help much on that, would a change of headset to something like a Pico 4 help make things better? Would it also change performance to the worse? 
I understand that to experience the full immersion of a modern headset I need a new pc, but I would like to know if things would improve with a Pico 4 or sth  

Thanks in advance!

 

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31 minutes ago, liongreek said:

Hey people, been flying around some time now, the past couple of years reverted to VR and never looked back. 
 

Now, to the problem at hand. I have a relatively mid to low end system. Running an old i5 8600 3.6 with 40gigs ram and an RX580 8gigs. 
 

I run the 1st gen Oculus Rift (now Meta) VR headset. Given its limited capabilities, I was wondering if the purchase of a more modern headset would improve my visuals. With my current VR it is impossible to discern the letters on the Viper MFDs and panels unless I zoom. I would really like to be able to read them somewhat clearly. 
Keeping in mind that the pc setup cannot help much on that, would a change of headset to something like a Pico 4 help make things better? Would it also change performance to the worse? 
I understand that to experience the full immersion of a modern headset I need a new pc, but I would like to know if things would improve with a Pico 4 or sth  

Thanks in advance!

 

I wouldn't advise the Pico4 with your system specs, especially after DCS last update, first it is heavier than your actual headset when it comes to what is demands from your PC, then now we experience a loss of performances when not crashes and other issues like it, people are working hard to try to sort them out but it's far from being ideal, we need a DCS update that works.

I guess a second hand Reverb G2 would do you just fine until the Pico support is sorted, and in my opinion it will take some time.

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I moved from the Rift S to the HP Reverb G2 version 2, and I'm very happy with it. Even when running the G2 at a lower resolution, say 65% of its native resolution, the G2 is very noticeably better than the Rift S. The increase in pixel density (number of pixels in the display per degree of vision) makes a big difference. The G2 is also more comfortable and has physical IPD adjustment, which is great for me. I use it for DCS with the Open XR runtime, and also Half Life: Alyx, etc. using SteamVR. 

Good luck! 

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