Have you finished Half-Lif Alex yet? Also why does Half-Life 2 still have better graphics than like 90% of the games today.
I think I made it almost to the end (about 80%) and it was getting hard so I got distracted with something else
. Seriously though, as much as I love my Reverb G2, in a game like Alyx where everything is dark almost all of the time, I nearly went back to my Odyssey. I really want an OLED high resolution display. The dark scenes are so much better when black is actually the absence of light as it should be.
RE: Graphics
This goes along with what I have been saying about ports. Most of the games made in the last 10 or even 15 years for pancake gaming have better graphics than most VR games. They were fully developed AAA titles, so a lot of time was spent to make the graphics as good as they could be for the hardware which was currently available. Almost always, this means that they are better than the lower budget VR offerings from indie developers of today.
And if you mean today-today, there was no Quest headset to provide impetus to hobble the graphics so it could be run.
The Quest Pro looks interesting until I saw the $1500 price tag. For me to pay that much for VR, it had better look like actual reality inside the unit and I hadn't better have my experiences limited to a walled garden where my data is being harvested the entire time. I also have virtually zero interest in AR. To me, AR is like pot. It takes the edge off, but you are still mostly functional. I am more of a "heroin" guy in that sense
If I stick something on my head, I want as much immersion as I can get, so whatever extra they are charging for that feature is just wasted money to me.
I don't know how the PSVR2 is going to compare, but for the same money or less, one is likely going to be able to get a high-end gaming console and the headset. Hopefully it will be a good unit, and someone will find a way to make it usable with a PC. I believe it will have a high-res RGB-stripe OLED display, so it already checks one of my boxes. Still going to harvest data through their walled garden, but given a choice, I'd feel better about that with Sony than Meta (FB).