HTC Vive Flow - VR headset you SHOULDN'T buy
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Quick potato review of HTC Vive Flow after 3 days of use. Verdict is DON'T buy, but watch if your wallet itches and you want to find all the reasons why not to buy it.
Summary:
Very light and comfortable
Magnetic fabric shade, no light leak
Diopter adjustment down to -6 (probably doesn't work with plus diopter or if you have cylinder)
No IPD adjustment and even for someone with IPD of 64 is straining eyes
No battery (use adapter or battery pack)
No controllers or hand tracking
Android Phone has to be used to control, but only rotation of the pointer (3DoF)
FOV similar to other headsets
Resolution decent
No god-rays (not fresnel) but has some glow
No black - black is very light
Tracking very bad - lags half a second making me sick
Spatial/rotational tracking lags worse than anything else I have used (and I have used almost all VR/AR headsets and have many at work) - unusable
No RUclips app
Only Viveport store
Can't connect to PC to play SteamVR games
No Virtual Desktop app or wireless connection to PC
You are supposed to stream YT from phone but you need phone with Miracast (couldn't test)
Can't play Netflix because my phone doesn't support the specific DRM (even if it had Miracast)
Games show screen tearing and low framerate
Can't play mp4 SBS videos that I copied from the computer (H264 and 2880p)
I wanted to like it, but I am really disappointed. If they fix the rotation/motion tracking lag and let me play mp4 videos from built-in storage I might have SOME use for it, otherwise this is the last time I was using it
You're right about the comfortability and the diopter being major pros, I really wish I hadn't bought it. Now I gotta RMA it. IPD could have been added easily imo. But the miracast streaming is slow and unreliable, the whole device is SLOW AF. Connectivity to the app was spotty. If it had HDMI input and functioned just as a normal plug in HDMI display it would have been worth $500. Gear VR is a better "content consumption experience".
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Thanks for the honest, comprehensive and to the point review.
Vive Sucks
Lots of valuable information here, I suspected that this was going to be sucha niche produst to start, maybe .1% of VR users would by this MAYBE, but you're better off ujst buying a Quest 2 at that point and save yourself hundreds of dollars.
I am not a fan of FB but the choice is clear between this and a Quest. I am just afraid this will give VR a bad rep as the Cardboard did, as people might conclude that all headsets are this bad and sickness-inducing.
Would you suggest another VR or AR headset which could be connected to an external camera and allow for enlarged view for people with eyesight difficulties? Thanks
Afaik, there is no such thing on the market. The resolution of built-in cameras is not suitable for that, and latency of any other camera would be too high and would make you sick within a minute
I would test it with a virtual theatre, but you said the black levels are crap, so it's probably not even worth it. Maybe a retro games emulator like the Sega VR collection ?
Sure here are use cases for this. You don't want to mess up your hair/ you always wear a hat while you vr. You are constantly taking off and putting on the vr headset let's say when you're waiting to be on called on work. You want a headset you can put in your pocket. You want to use a headset to watch videos on the road for hours on end. You live a van life/ car life where you just plug the headset on the car usb to charge it and get rid of bulky headsets to save space. Etc. so there's definitely a niche (just a smaller percentage) not to mention the Asian market is advertising this in a way I don't fully know but suites their needs better I guess
Thanks for the review, I got turned off of these now. But seriously, why are you wearing a mask still? Especially in a video review...
I do wear a mask still despite being vaccinated, but here I do it just for some anonymity. (In the profile image I don't look really like myself)
alone with a mask..........
if you sell it for 200 euro I will buy it
Possibly the worst headset ever made, practically useless and yet two years later, HTC are still selling it for £500 with virtually no supported software!
Yeah, the Vive Flow is a flaming piece of garbage, but Sunglass headset! The Vive Flow 2 promises to be an interesting headset even as the Vive Flow original is a car wreck.
They should change the name for the next generation of the device and not add "2" as this one will not be a success
I really wish I had seen this video a month ago. All the other videos are just a bunch of shills.
Depending on your country you can just return it for a full refund. We return half of the stuff we buy as most things sold today are rubbish
goofy ahhh
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