Presentation: With its sleek black box and a large image of the headset on top of it, this is certainly a good unboxing experience. Once the lid is opened you see the headset nested in a cardboard holder and it is inside a dust bag to keep it clean and scratch-free. Then under the cardboard headset holder, you find the controllers and all the leads you need packed tidily in their own little compartments. The packaging sure makes you feel as if this is a premium product (which the price tag suggests it is).
HP Reverb G2 Box Contents
- HP Reverb G2 Headset
- 6m headset cable for desktop and mobile PC’s
- 2 motion controllers
- 1 DisplayPort to mini-DisplayPort adapter
- 1 Power Adapter
- Setup document
Description: The next generation HP Virtual Reality HMD–developed in collaboration with Valve and Microsoft–delivers an immersive, comfortable and compatible VR experience. It’s the new standard in VR. Equipped with industry-leading lenses and speakers designed by Valve, our HMD provides high-quality resolution and fully immersive spatial audio. With mura-free, 2160 x 2160 LCD panels per eye, you can now see more detail than ever before.
HP Reverb G2 Specs…
Headset: HP Reverb G2
Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Company
Launch Price: $599 (£438) (with controllers)
Release Date: November 2020
Headset Type: VR Headset (PC Powered)
Display: 2 x LCD at 2160 x 2160 (per eye)
Field of View(FOV): 98° horizontal / 90° vertical
Refresh Rate: 90 Hz
Interpupillary Distance Adjustment: Yes
Screen Focus Adjustment: No
Weight: 498 g (17.56 oz)
Tracking: 6 DoF Inside-out via 4 integrated cameras
Review: While the higher price might suggest that this headset is in the premium tier of VR headsets sadly the user experience really doesn’t reflect this. Sure, its comfortable to wear with some of the loveliest face padding I have experienced so far, but nothing stands out. The FOV is OK, the resolution is…OK and the headsets tracking is just as terrible as many other WMR headsets. It’s not a terrible headset and I really did enjoy using it, but where is that extra money going? If you can grab this in a sale you might feel better about it than I did, but I feel it really should have been better than it was.
