It's like your brain detects that something is fake when looking at an LCD panel with washed out colors and grey darkness (even if it doesn't consiously bother you). I didn't realize that until I experienced the Beyond. Clarity is fantastic and so is the eye comfort. What I mean by eye comfort, is the ability to focus normally and comfortably. Where your eyes feel roughly the same in VR as they do out of it. Which is something I always have a big issue with in pretty much every headset other than Quest, Index, and now the Beyond. If my eyes can't focus normally, I can't be in VR very long before discomfort. "
LOL, no that's not what he said, but if it helps you sleep better at night.
That's exactly what he said and I don't care about his (I don't even know who it is) opinion at all! Why would I sleep better if someone is experiencing something?
I mainly get out of his whole story that the eye comfort is to him a lot better than all other HMD's and that the colors and blacks are better. What more is he saying then according to you?? He's not mentioning resolution, nits, fov, performance, nothing; only that. More eye comfort and better colors and blacks(besides some emotional nonsense).
You're twisting it in the way that you want to experience it, to an emotional believe about the BSB again. Just stay with the facts and try to leave the emotional side outside of it.
If he has discomfort compared with the Pimax Crystal and other HMD's, then it's probably because of the difference in focal distance. And he's not the first that has discomfort with that. The Crystal DOES have a short focal distance, I have no issues with it at all but even I would have preferred that the focal distance was equal to the Reverb G2 for example, it just views a bit more releaxed. But if someone is suffering from long-sightedness, even only midly, then the Crystal isn't for that person. It's an HUGE issue for people with long-sightedness and then the BSB will feel much better to his eyes. So then of course everything feels better, because if you have no eye comfort, then you move on quite quickly. There is not a HMD for everyone, not the Crystal and also not the BSB. It's all personal preference and if you have limitation in your sight then some HMD's fell of quite quickly and the Crystal even faster than others probably because of the short(est) focal distance.
You're completely overwhelmed with your emotions around this HMD. Just try to look at it from a distance, what you're experiencing. There is CA, there is glare, there is an low upscaled resolution at 90hz, the nits are low, it doesn't have eye tracking so it cannot benefit from quad views, dynamic foveated rendering, almalence, it doens't have a magical fov or stereo overlap or a perfect sweetspot etc.etc. it HAS downsides as any HMD currently on the market.
You're just massively overreacting, there's no magic going on inside that BSB, it's just a great HMD for some(and for some not, as you can read in the VR wanttobedead thread, same as the Crystal, great for some, terrible for some others), well great, but it's not some kind of magical device with zero issues or limitations.