Hmmmmmmmmmm
Today was really meant to be the update that confirmed if they would use the brighter display or not. Updates have always been before this time of the week… not a good sign. Hopefully we hear soon.
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Honestly, it’s probably best not to hold your breath with these things.
I’m sure we’ll get news eventually.
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You’d surely suffocate.
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What do you think it is? Arpara AIO? Meganex? Something new?
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It’s probably a Pico Neo model, given this. He said this HMD was going to be a “known brand”. I’m thinking a global release outside of China.
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Interesting so Pico Neo global launch?
But whats with the “clarity”?
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My expectation is probably a new model that’s planned to be a global launch. I’m reasonably confident this also ties into the reason Thrillseeker said to be careful about backing the Arpara, because another headset he was still under NDA for was coming.
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I have owned 3 Vive Pros, and unfortunately the panels are not all the same, I had 2 at the same time and I kept the one that had no mura.
I even had an OG Vive that had 1 eye panel with mura and 1 without.
These are my own observations from owning quite a few headsets, I could be wrong but I could see the difference.
My Vive Pro that I’ve used for the last 2 years is free of mura.
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Why the TTL Color looked so washed out? Doesn’t feel like it’s ready to replace 2d gaming in vr environment even if it’s clear enough, I mean if I take a photo of my display it looked like this.
MeganeX is delayed until late this year, so quite unlikely but maybe possible (but I’d be shocked).
Arpara definitely not, the Arpara team have been locked down for weeks now there’s nothing happening there until end of this month most likely (out of their control tbf).
Interestingly, he does mention that it’s in “Steam VR mode” which a commenter on the youtube video pointed out as a term exclusive to WMR, but I’m guessing that’s just a coincidence as a WMR is hardly a Quest competitor (which MRTV explicitly stated this is).
Pico has a big event tomorrow, apparently they already officially confirmed a headset reveal tomorrow so 99.99% chance that it’s Pico with a new headset (Thankfully not a Pico Neo 3 consumer launch in the west, as that wouldn’t make sense if he is saying the clarity is better than Q2).
Only other option would be a Samsung headset or such. But it seems basically certain that it’s Pico. My wild hope is a pancake lens microOLED headset, similar to their G3 light form factor shown off at CES 2020. But more realistically it will be something like a Cambria without the MR stuff.
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I’m 99% certain those 2 aren’t related. I asked Brad directly (who also tried it with Thrill) and he said that isn’t related to this one.
I’m hoping he is confused or just being cautious though, as that headset was specifically a good quality microOLED headset which would be incredible if Pico was doing that but if it’s truly a Quest competitor then I don’t see how microOLED could be on the table without making the price double that of the Quest and leaving it as not a competitor at all (unless that Tik Tok money heavily heavily subsidizes it).
Interesting options but I don’t think it has anything to do with the microOLED that Thrillseeker and Sadlyitsbradly mentioned. Also, Thrill said that headset was from someone you wouldn’t expect. I guess that could mean tik tok but Pico is a very well established headset manufacturer at this point, so absolutely would be a company you’d expect.
Imagine if it was DecaGear 
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https://twitter.com/bobovr_official/status/1512635369224749057
BoboVR put this image out and been leaking it everywhere they can. Maybe it might be the new HMD coming? They just posted this a few days ago.
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Originally I said that looks like something for Project Cambria/Quest 2 Pro, but I’m not so sure anymore as it seems like that won’t have a removeable headband, but that picture from Bobo clearly has the usual arms with speakers that the Quest 2 has. Quite confusing tbh, maybe this new Pico headset ripped off that design? Although that would be a bit surprising as they like to do the battery in the back thing for weight distribution, although if it truly is a Quest 2 competitor then keeping costs down as much as possible would be important, so switching to a design like Quest 2 without anything on the back of the headset strap would make sense.
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LOL I wan going to say that at first, but removed it because it was too far fetched. 
Oh man…lolol
Can we all agree Deca swindled a lot of people out of $10? 
I really don’t think that was their intention tbf, but yeah doubt I’m ever seeing that tenner again lol.
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So if this news is true, buying the Arpara may have been a mistake
Report: Meta Quest 2 Pro May Contain High-Res Mini-LED & Slim Design (roadtovr.com)
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I bought the arpara for high rest OLED PCVR, with comfort as a bonus. I don’t think the Cambria competes with that tbh, it is still lower res than even the G2, it won’t have OLED blacks (miniLED backlight may help a lot but we’ve yet to see, look at Varjo with the backlight still not being used). Cambria will also (almost certainly) still have a compressed PCVR video stream.
So for high res PCVR, the Arpara will still beat it out by a significant margin.
However, I’ll definitely be getting the Cambria for productivity and for the mixed reality aspect. If it can act as a monitor replacement for me then I’ll be using it daily for work, having a headset I can wear for 4-6 hours a day for work is one of my main goals and Cambria seems the best suited for that so far. So I think both will have something to offer uniquely.
That said, as a fellow Arpara backer, I still think we’ll find some good reasons that it was a mistake just that Cambria won’t be the reason lol.
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id still take the display port connection tbh,cant stand the quest 2 compression even with wifi 6 and 1gbps or link cable.
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