HTC VIVE Pro 2 Virtual Reality System

I bought this because the Vive Pro I have works fine, is easy to use, and has operated without failure since I bought it a while ago. But yeah, the display is dated. So I upgraded to this Vive Pro 2. I bought the "headset only" because everything else I had (controllers, base stations) work 4.0 with the new headset (verified). So I saved a bunch. It is noticeably better in resolution with a lot less pixelization than the original. Instruments in cockpits are now readable. Sure its not as good as some units out there right now, but for $499, this upgrade works GREAT for me and is WELL WORTH the price. Big plus is that the new power "box" has an ON/OFF switch that allows you to turn the headset off when you aren't using it. No more pulling the plug like the original. The headset itself is WAY MORE secure on my head. It fits great and does not move around at all or have noticeable gaps around the base of the eyes. The attached earphones are also a big plus from the original. All around, this headset is a better designed unit. Of note: This headset requires more GPU and memory. My original Vive Pro worked fine with 3 monitors hooked up along with the headset to the GPU. When I replaced it with the Pro 2, I got an error. Had to downgrade the resolution a bit to work. Also the connection will NOT work with HDMI. Be aware of that. Converters are provided so you can use the display ports, but converting to HDMI does not work.

Upgrade from a Vive Pro to the Vive Pro 2. Worked with my Gen 1 controllers and trackers. The difference in quality is significant. I use my VR for DCS World VR. I recently upgraded my PC from an Intel i9 Gen 9 to an AMD Ryzen 9950, 128 GB RAM, and kept my ZOTA RTX 4090. I decided to make the upgrade to the Pro 2 because the original Vive Pro worked like a champ and need to stay with PC based VR. It was not a plug and play upgrade. The new VR set uses a Display port plug vice the HDMI from the older Vive Pro. I had to adjust for that. My RTX 4090 has 3 DPorts and one HDMI port. Then I had to uninstall all previously installed VR drivers and Steam VR. I installed the new Vive VR Manager bridges between the VR headset and the Steam VR app. Then I reinstalled SteamVR. I run three monitors when not in VR. When I started the Vive Manager it told me it was unable to support more then 2 monitors. So before I start the VR manager I have to go into the NVidia app and disable one of my monitors to run it. I would think that I have enough compute to manage it all but the Vive manager does not think so. My GPU and CPU are running at about 10% at any given time. I still don't understand that. Overall I am satisfied with the VR upgrade the Vive Pro 2 gave me.

I'm upgrading from a Oculus Rift S and settled on the HTC Vive Pro 2 (Pro 2) because it offered the highest resolution available and I very much wanted to eliminate the so called "screen door effect" that really deprived me of a fuller sense of immersion with the Rift S. While I must admit that the Pro 2 display is a huge step up in a million ways, I have some serious gripes that I think will see me returning the Pro 2 for something else. 1. All VR headsets have lenses that will have halos or rings, but these are much more noticeable on the Pro 2. If an in game beam of light or an especially bright scene is displayed, these rings create glares and halos and all sorts of visual anomalies. 2. Those same rings and halos are visible whenever my eyes drift from the lenses sweet spot. Much more so than was the case with the Rift S. 3. The supposedly adjustable IDP doesn't seem to improve or make worse the quality of the image displayed. I can swing from 60mm to 73mm and fail to see or feel a difference All of the above issues make me wonder if I just got a defective headset or something. Alas, my issues don't end here. 1. SteamVR crashes a lot. Like I mean a whole F******* lot. If a game doesn't crash at least twice while trying to load a game or every time you pull up the SteamVR overlay in game, it's a precious miracle right up there with the conception of Christ himself. Super frustrating and I'm not sure if this falls on Steam, HTC, or is just an inherent compatibility issue. I'm running a Ryzen 7 5800x at 4.9 Ghz, RTX 3080Ti, and 64GB of RAM, so I'm sure I've got the chutzpah to run things just fine on the PC side. 2. The Pro 2 controllers suck more than a black hole. No game can escape just how awful these things are. Just about every game wants you to have a joystick and at least A and B buttons. HTC decided to do away with these altogether which makes some games incredibly difficult and unintuitive to play. In some instances I have utter failed to find a way to work around some of the wonkiness. It also appears to me that many games are designed with the superior Valve Index controllers in mind. At this point I am questioning my sanity and wondering if I should plunk down another $300 on a set of Index controllers, but when you are already $1500 in the hole, what's another $300 right? Yeah naw... I think I'm going to cut my losses, return the Pro 2, and forget that I even wanted to upgrade as this point. It's going to take a lot of effort and money to get back to a point of playability and even then, I'm going to be dealing with lense issues that just are unfixable. Honestly, the issues I seem to be having are inherent to the design of the headset and lenses themselves.

You're paying for picture quality, and this headset has it in spades. There is still a minute bit of frensal rings if you look for them, but as long as you are looking straight and at the sweet spot, you don't notice them at all (which is the case most of the time). I do recommend getting the smaller, breathable sponge mats to replace the sweat soaking native ones. They'll increase your horizontal and vertical field of view, while adding a more sanitary option. The headset does get fairly warm in graphics demanding games. You'll want to mod it with a small fan for air circulation, or have some form of fan blowing on you (which oddly adds to the immersion feel). However, the visual trade off is completely worth it. If you have the extra money, get the Vive wireless connector with it, and 2 spare batteries. Should give you 6 hours of cable free fun.

Can't get over how much of an improvement in video, audio, and comfort quality this is over the original Vive. Amazing resolution, vibrant colour, high frame rate, no "screen door" effect. It takes a little bit to get used to some of the visual artefacts ("god rays" on text, e.g.) but in games I've never seen VR look this great.

The sensor stop working in less than 6 moths !!!

Great headset. It is comfortable, bright, has good resolution, amazing tracking, very good fov. This headset would sell like hotcakes if the lenses had a wider sweet spot or had pancake or even aspheric lenses. Deadass htc didn’t need to release a whole new headset. They just needed to re-release this with better lenses and updated the software and call it a day.

Should be good but is one of the most dated and horrible VR experiences you can have for this price point. Go buy a Meta Quest, it looks way better than this, the software works way better and it is reasonably priced unlike this piece of E-waste.

1 - When I placed order I receive email from seller saying Amazon discription of item was not correct blah blah blah. The language was unprofessional and full of errors. 2 - Product did not arrrive on time 3 - To install, you require Steam which is terrible when logging on a new computer (using laptop to istall software instead of gaming computer) and spent over an hour with passwords, clicking on images that made no sense and steam has terrible customer service. 4 - So far, this whole experience has been negative