Finally found the time to try out the Reverb G2 yesterday, and VR in general for that matter. My feelings are somewhat mixed about it..
On one hand: It's fucking amazing. Like, once you pushed through setting it up, managed the interoperability between WMR and SteamVR and have it not crash constantly, it's straight up the future. No questions about it. I tried SuperHot and Alyx, since I couldn't get the Lab to go past the Loading Screen.
Seeing someone point a gun at you, dodging it on instinct, only to be able to follow the bullets trajectory as it flies by you is something that simply has to be experienced. You don't get it from watching someone do that on a flat screen. You have to experience it. I think SuperHot will become my go-to title to showcase VR to friends and family.
But on the other hand, the software side of things between SteamVR and WMR is an absolute nightmare to deal with, and I feel the necessity to have it run seperately in addition to SteamVR puts a lot of stress on my computer that could be avoided. I experienced a lot of crashes when I first tried the Reverb G2, but I think I mostly resolved these issues. Half Life Alyx does crash occasionally, but I think thats because SteamVR runs it automatically at 100% SS on my rig, and the native resolution of the Reverb is already pretty high. Increasing it beyond 100% SS will crash most titles so far, I guess my GPU is hitting its limits in terms of VRAM and my CPU in terms of temperature (though I reapplied thermal paste and adjusted the CPU fan settings in BIOS, which seemed to fix the heat issues).
I consider my understanding of computers to be at least above average, and it's been a real struggle for me fixing it all up to where it runs okay-ish now. I don't see the average consumer being able to do the same, so I have a newfound appreciation for out-of-the-box VR sets like the Quest 2, which I think will be the way to go forward for mainstream consumer VR, at least as long as there is no PSVR2 or Xbox VR.
But yeah, I myself am hooked. And hyped. This turned out to be the new frontier I was hoping for, and I can't wait to try out more VR games.