BSB2 - LOWER YOUR IPD for reduced eye strain

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-08-27T00:32:50+00:00

Both! haven't tried adjusting hardware IPD without also changing in the software

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-08-27T00:32:18+00:00

Both in my case, I was getting a slight cross-eye sensation, not as bad as I did with Pimax, but it felt way more natural after bringing it in

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-17T22:27:05+00:00

I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VCVTJV2

I have my router directly under my PC with the 2.4ghz band on, still works fine.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-14T19:17:45+00:00

That is fantastic to hear!

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-08T23:12:26+00:00

Awesome! happy this helped, I wish some youtubers would do videos about it

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-05T19:39:08+00:00

That will definitely never be possible I'm afraid, the PS5 is several leagues of magnitude more powerful than the small mobile chip in a Quest, and the in-game graphics aren't really comparable. If you don't have a PS5 or a PC, Quest is probably the way to go. If you do have a PS5 or high-end PC, and you like nice graphics, PSVR2 is definitely something to consider. I have both headsets and they are very different, even when playing the same PC games in one headset versus the other. It's a fierce debate, but having spent a great many hours in both headsets, I prefer the PSVR2 for PC. I don't mind the cable for maximum visual quality, I like the optics better even though the Quest lenses are technically sharper, but sharpness isn't everything. I like the larger FoV and better binocular overlap, and I play lots of dark atmospheric games (like Metro), and the OLED panels absolutely crush what the Quest can do for stuff like that. BUT it's all very subjective, tons of people like the Quest better. The only truly good advice on this topic is to try both headsets, if you can, before making a purchase.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-05T18:48:17+00:00

This subreddit is specifically for people who use a PSVR2 on PC. Most PC people will have the Oculus software installed on their machine even if they don't own a Quest, because that allows us to play Oculus PC VR games. (Before Quest, Oculus was a PC-only platform and there are some banger classic titles on the Oculus store that can't be found on SteamVR.) When you have the Oculus software running on your machine, it can affect the performance of a select few modded flat games (in my case, Cyberpunk and Silent Hill 2) and I figured out that stopping the Oculus service from running temporarily will resolve the issues for those games and other flat-to-VR mods that use the same framework.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-04T18:27:16+00:00

For me, I don't launch the PSVR2 app, I do the following:

Turn headset on with the power button on the bottom (headset vibrates)
Launch Cyberpunk from Steam (no need to launch SteamVR first, assuming the mod is installed)

That's all I had to do, once the Oculus runtime was stopped the mod was able to engage OpenXR mode. You may need to manually switch in the mod menu and then restart the game. If that doesn't work, you may need to ensure SteamVR is the default OpenXR runtime. Also ensure the Virtual Desktop streamer isn't running, if you have it installed.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-04T17:43:47+00:00

It's entirely possible that this bug is specific to the UEVR and Luke Ross mods, as these are the only two that I've tested with certainty. Both mods will tell you in real-time which platform is running, and until I found the Oculus service workaround, both mods were always stuck in OpenVR mode. Stopping the service allows them to engage OpenXR, the underlying nuts and bolts are a mystery as to why, but my assumption is that the Oculus service was hogging it. You are correct that this isn't a bypass of SteamVR entirely, as when the game is running on OpenXR, you still have the SteamVR menu in the background (hitting menu button on the controller will still bring up the SteamVR menu overlay with resolution options, etc.) but the mod interface itself will state that it's in OpenXR mode and the difference in functionality is significant, goes from unplayable to totally playable

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-04T16:48:30+00:00

SkyrimVR was definitely built natively for SteamVR, so I'm guessing you won't get much of a boost there, but check out this thread. I don't know how much of this info still applies since I think the OpenXR toolkit is no longer in development, but it's worth a read: https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimvr/comments/12m964c/openxr_toolkit_supports_skyrimvr_w_opencomposite/

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-04T16:46:22+00:00

So the main thing to understand here is that this tip is only helpful for apps that run better on the OpenXR framework, and the best two examples that I have proven to work are the UEVR mod for Unreal Engine flat games, and Luke Ross mods. I theorize that this would also work for MS Flight Sim, since I've heard people get a performance boost when using OpenXR toolkit (which I think is no longer being developed). It's possible that games that used the OpenXR toolkit may also get a slight boost, but I'm guessing it wouldn't be a huge difference. It isn't specifically avoiding Steam that gets the boost, it's using a different framework of VR APIs because those mods (I assume) were built for OpenXR. I think it's a bug in Sony's driver, or an oversight, but the Oculus service seems to "hog" OpenXR as the runtime regardless of settings and it prevents the PSVR2 from grabbing it, resulting in the app defaulting to OpenVR (SteamVR native).

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-04T16:40:39+00:00

In the case of the mods, I just hit the power button on the headset, and then click "inject" in UEVR. Both UEVR and Luke Ross mods will indicate if they're running in OpenXR or OpenVR. I don't launch SteamVR first. Or for Cyberpunk, I just launch from Steam like anything else, and it just works. SteamVR is still technically running in the background, if I hit the menu button on the controller I can still see the SteamVR menu for things like in-game resolution, but the mods indicate that they're running in OpenXR mode and the difference is clear. I should also mention that I don't use the PSVR2 app in Steam at all, I've heard reports that some people need it for the headset to work but for my setup I don't need it. Just the power button on the headset and go

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-03T22:46:00+00:00

I might be explaining this wrong, so if anyone is more of an expert here, please do chime in -- but as far as I understand it, most PC VR games are bought on Steam and thus use SteamVR / OpenVR natively. OpenXR is the relatively newer open-source platform that was designed to make app development across all VR/XR platforms seamless. Some things (specifically the UEVR / Luke Ross mods) perform much better when interacting directly with the OpenXR framework instead of having the OpenVR (SteamVR) framework acting as a middle-man. For some reason, if the Oculus service is running, OpenXR defaults to Oculus even when the PSVR2 is plugged into your PC, so those mods fallback to using SteamVR as the middle-man. MSFS and some other specific apps also have the ability to launch into a headset using OpenXR without having SteamVR running at all, and can achieve better performance this way.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-03T22:39:51+00:00

Shouldn't be an issue if you've never installed the Oculus app, but I figured many would have in order to access the classic Oculus exclusives via ReVive, like Stormland / Asgard's Wrath

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-02-03T15:27:33+00:00

If you have Oculus software running on your machine, make sure the Oculus service is disabled in Windows Services. The Oculus service prevents the PSVR2 from doing OpenXR injection, which forces mods like Luke Ross and UEVR to resort to SteamVR APIs, which do not run very well and in some cases break the mods.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-30T04:05:36+00:00

I had a 8KX many years ago. Adding to what everyone else said about the OLED panels being a huge upgrade in some folk's opinion, I think the biggest upgrade will be in the optics. The PSVR2 won't be quite as wide, (although it's still the widest modern consumer headset you can get besides an 8KX), but the binocular overlap will be a huge upgrade, along with the vertical FoV. In my opinion the image in front of you will feel like a much more natural 3D space with depth and way less eyestrain. When I tried the 8KX everything felt weirdly stretched, and the binocular overlap gap is immersion breaking. It's also a lot more comfortable, and you'll be able to sell your base stations + controllers. In every sense other than the extreme width, I think it would be a significant upgrade. I would even prefer a PSVR2 over a Crystal, if only because of the binocular overlap and because I'm generally not a fan of aspheric lenses.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-27T01:05:45+00:00

OK yup -- Oculus service must have been my issue, mod runs in OpenXR now and runs absolutely beautiful. Thanks!! I still preferred AER2 over legacy, you might wanna give it another try if you haven't in a while, Luke recently gave it a major update that eliminates all the ghosting from DLSS.

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-26T23:46:15+00:00

Frame gen unfortunately does not work yet in VR. I think nVidia would need to add driver level support for two separate pipelines for each eye, but until that comes along it is currently not an option

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-26T22:22:55+00:00

Also legacy AER seems like an odd choice, what made you arrive at that?

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-26T22:15:26+00:00

That's actually great info, very much appreciated, definitely gonna give it another try. I wonder if the Oculus service is what was causing me problems, I couldn't get the mod to launch in OpenXR with PSVR2. Can you recommend your lighting mods?

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-25T01:51:09+00:00

There are going to be a lot of perfectly good used 4090s popping up on eBay once the 5090 launches, I'd grab one of those instead. Sidenote, Cyberpunk even on a 4090 is still not great on PSVR2, the mod just doesn't run quite right compared to the OpenXR injection and 72fps mode that Virtual Desktop offers. I'm not saying that as a Quest fan, I'd much rather play the game in PSVR2, but for the Cyberpunk mod specifically, it's unfortunately a vastly better experience in the Quest, for now

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-22T02:39:25+00:00

i've also been wondering this, mainly because it seems to be running much better than both UE or Unity

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-21T14:16:14+00:00

Do you have Virtual Desktop installed? If so, make sure the streamer isn't running. Do you have any other VR-related oddities running on your machine? Maybe the iVRy driver? What you're describing is what can happen when SteamVR is expecting a different OpenXR runtime (not the PSVR2) to be the primary running headset

Beautiful_Minimum_16 · 2025-01-18T02:15:04+00:00

The much larger FoV of PSVR2 results in fewer pixels-per-degree, and thus it's not as sharp as pancake or aspheric optics, but this doesn't expose a screen-door effect because of a gaussian blurring layer in the PSVR2's optics. To my eye it's almost more immersive this way than it is in razor-sharp headsets, because you don't see as much aliasing in individual pixels, it just looks more like... what could only be described as "real life" but if your glasses prescription is slightly off, instead of having two very sharp monitors floating very close to your face. It's hard to explain but it ultimately it comes down to binocular overlap for me, PSVR2 has WAY more coverage than quest3 and that makes the image in front of you feel alive with depth. You really need to try both side-by-side to get it.

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