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I purchased a Vive pro 2 to try it as a monitor replacement for my CHG90, which is a 49in 3840 x 1080 display.

The vive 2 is 2448×2448 per eye, or 4896×4896 total.

It’s completely unusable for the purpose. Text is blurry and unreadable. The lenses are garbage. It’s sitting on a shelf now.

The vision pro is probably somewhere in the range of 3,391 x 3,391 per eye, although one guy calculated it to likely be 3660 x 3142.

That’s not that big of an improvement over the pro 2, and I doubt it would actually give enough clarity to use it as a high res display replacement.

I picked up the pro 2 for $350, and I feel like I may have even overpaid a bit for what I got. Unless the vision pro is a quantum leap in display quality over it, it’s going to be a non-starter at the 3,500 price point.




> The vive 2 is 2448×2448 per eye, or 4896×4896 total

Typo there: 4986 x 2448 total

> That’s not that big of an improvement over the pro 2

If it's 3391x, that's almost 40% more pixels per axis than 2448x and almost double the number of pixels per eye. Bit more than "not that big", surely.


It's like pizza sizing, a large is substantially bigger than a medium despite the diameter seeming not all that different due to surface area.

Coupled with the complexities of lensing within the device, I think people should wait to try Apple's headset before coming to conclusions based on other designs.


It's not like a pizza. You care about linear resolution, not number of total pixels.


Yes it is. Only relevant question is whether there is cheese in that crust. /hungry




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