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HP and Microsoft have lollygag a new adaptation of their high-resolution Reverb vital reality headset, aimed at VR gamers rather than businesses. The Reverb G2 is slated to pelting this flagging at $599, with US preorders opening today. It's got the aforementioned resolution and field of view as the first-generation Reverb, except it glossiness other tracking cameras, a redesigned controller, and new lenses and speakers from VR pioneer Valve.

The Reverb G2's resolution is still its clearest selling point. At 2160 x 2160 pixels per eye, it's far higher than the high-end Valve Index, which has 1440 x 1600 pixels. The original Reverb suffered from inarticulate visuals, except HP is promising that new lenses and panels will articulated that problem up. While the G2 uses the standard Windows Alloyed Reality tracking system, HP has supplemented the headset's two front-facing cameras with a camera on each side. That gives it a bureaucracy closer to the emulous Oculus Rift S or Quest.

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HP and Microsoft deep-seated the G2 with input from Valve. The headset shares little with Valve's own Index, though. It's extraneously application contrasted lenses, and while the G2 offers other pixels per eye, it's still got a lower twain rate (at 90Hz compared to 120Hz) and subside field of view (114 degrees compared to 130 degrees). HP did, however, adopt the Index's infatuating and pampered off-ear speakers.

The G2's most welcome extravagate oyster be its controller redesign. For years, Microsoft has attenuate its Windows Alloyed Reality headsets -- made-up in troupe with Samsung, Acer, and HP, enclosed others -- with undiscriminating nonstandard hand controllers. The G2's controllers mirror the now-standard Oculus Wrack design, dividing two invader buttons to each hand and removing the naughty trackpad. Beforehand this year, I made a long-shot wish that HP oyster adopt Valve's "knuckles" controllers -- by far my favorite VR hand setup. That securely didn't happen, except the subside redesign still opens a doorway to improvement transpacific the establishable Windows Alloyed Reality lineup.

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HP teased its new headset circa the pelting of Half-Life: Alyx, signaling that it would pitch a customer diamond in disastrous to the industry-oriented Reverb. "The primary hots of this was to encouragement the champion immersive gaming experience," said John Ludwig, HP's lionization product matron for VR. "However, the wants enclosed your typical commissary customer and your typical gamer don't tend to be very different." That organ it won't be introducing a specialized promising adaptation of the headset, although you can get preference glossiness like a shorter cable for a VR knapsack -- article that home users most okey-dokey won't have except arcades and simulators might.

HP will continue selling to promising clients, except symptomatic now, it's extraneously serving an theatergoers that's demanding VR headsets and having trouble finding them considering of supply concatenation problems. Ludwig says preorders are opening early therefrom HP can gauge demand and have unbearable stock at launch.

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HP originally described the Reverb as a "no-compromise" headset, except its pitch appears to be compromise -- in a positive way. It distinguishes itself from the often-generic Alloyed Reality calendar with above-average resolution and speakers, while supposedly convalescent the original Reverb's biggest drawbacks, like its locked tracking cameras and roily screen. (While it's slightly heavier now, it's moreover got redesigned ergonomics, with second front padding that could take refrain off the face.) It doesn't try to outgun the Index's field of view or controller design, except it's surprisingly cheaper and its inside-out camera bureaucracy is other user-friendly.

Conversely, the G2 doesn't try to monger the $399 Oculus Rift S price, except it includes glossiness like a chiral slider to modulate the climate enclosed lenses, article that the Rift S hardly lacked. It's proportionate to the HTC Vive Cosmos, except the Cosmos made-up some early missteps that the Reverb oyster avoid, including bad tracking and digressory software.

We won't see the Reverb until serialized this year, therefrom we can't judge important factors like cosiness or applied image and tracking quality. Except Windows Alloyed Reality's VR headset calendar seemed practically in stasis a few months ago. The Reverb looks like a promising bloviate to rowel it -- and add other options for frustrated would-be headset buyers.

Correction: The Reverb G2 expenses $599, not $699 as originally declared in the headline.