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The hardware looks pretty good. I bought a HP reverb G2 because it had the highest resolution. While not bad, i learned that resolution isn't everything as the picture is pretty blurry anywhere except dead ahead due to the Fresnel lenses, so the new pancake lenses sound promising. I also don't get motion sickness and might be interested in working in VR if the readability is good. My only other hold up is that even at 36 years old and using computers since I was 5, I still don't type properly and do occasionally look down at the keyboard lol. Would be great if the forward facing cameras will allow this.


The Quest 1 and 2 also have fresnel lenses but they're not all that blurry. Sharpest dead ahead sure but it's not terrible.

And I wonder if the pancake lenses are really better there. I think god rays will be significantly reduced but edge sharpness is really hard to do with such close focus. The light path at the edges of the LCD to the eye could be twice as long than in the middle.


Meta Workrooms has passthrough mode for just the keyboard so you can still look down at your fingers when you're typing.


This feature is surprisingly polished. Your keyboard is tracked by the headset and it renders a high quality model in place of it, and when the headset sees your hands go over the keyboard, it overlays the video of your hands into the scene.




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