I have motion rig, and it's aggressive! Could I will have problems if I go with the odyssey? Olso I had closed the rig with black panels for no light disturbing, which can reduce odyssay's tracking....? Right?, That review bothers me a lot : I bought this head set samsung odyssay's specifically for a higher resolution sim racing experience. I currently have a Rift and love it but like all sim racers wanted a clearer view down the track and less screen door effect. The Samsung seemed like a good option. It's inside-out tracking is good enough for sit down sim racing and it has high resolution screens at a good price.
Unfortunately it's not all roses and sunshine. First, compared the rift it's uncomfortable. Particularly for racing as the strap makes a large bump on the back of your head that make it hard to sit in a high backed chair as the back of your head hits. And the way all the weight rests on your forehead (sinuses) is also less than comfortable. So the screens essentially hang in front of your face. And if they don't 'hang' just right there is no way to tilt the displays except to try and reposition the entire thing on your head. My Rift is not perfect but it feels like a baseball hat compared to this.
But once I did have it on and fired up the first thing I notice was still a very noticeable screen door effect. Not as bad but still there. The windows VR home environment was okay. It makes it easier to use your computer in VR if that's what you want to do and it was the first time I replied to an email in VR. Which is when I discovered the next issue. The very small sweet spot of the lens. While the image is sharper than the Rift as you would expect from the higher resolution screens. It's only really in the sweet spot as the lens are so blurry outside of it that it destroyers any resolution improvements in the image. It also means you can't just glance at stuff in your periphery. It's too blurry so you have to turn your whole head which sucks for reading HUD elements and so forth. Very disappointing.
I tried out some standup, room scale stuff to compare to my Rift. I'm used to the Rift controllers so the Samsung controllers felt awkward and the big rings on them felt like a bit of a kludge solution but are needed for the inside out tracking and not unique to this model. The tracking was not up to par with the rift but I didn't expect it to be and didn't buy it for room scale so I can't knock that. Right away though it was obvious that the lens pretty much ruined any image improvements the higher resolution lens might have provided. In fact it felt lower res than the Rift because of it. Also I was getting a bit of choppiness whenever I would turn quickly which is not good for motion sickness. I knew I might take a performance hit trying to run the bigger screens but these were some of the lower impact VR experiences I was running. I'm currently running a brand new HP Omen gaming rig with the latest i7 and an 11GB 1080Ti so a very capable machine.
Next I fired up the racing sims. In the sims I did feel like I had a clearer, better overall image...as I was sitting there. But as soon as I started to drive with any speed things went down hill. A lot of choppiness around corners but the worst thing was simply the blurriness of everything to the sides. I'm not sure what it is but it seems like the screens are not refreshing at the exact same moment and it causes a slight mismatch of all the details off to the sides as stuff goes rushing by. With the Rift I can pick out a sign on the side of the road and turn my head as it goes rushing by and read it clearly like in real life. Not so with the Samsung. Everything seemed to have a slight double images as if the two screens did match up exactly. Ruins the entire experience.
I spent a lot of time researching and tweaking settings and .ini files, etc... But I could never get what I would call acceptable performance from it. And then even if I managed, it was still going to have blurry lens and an uncomfortable fit. So I sent it back.
I really wanted to like it but it was very disappointing........! Is this true?
