So I just got my Reverb G2 and my past experience with VR is super limited. Like maybe in total of 15 - 20 minutes in Vive, years ago?

Today I got my Reverb G2 and I've played around for a bit.

Setup - Getting it to work

I didn't run into a lot of problems people on this subreddit had run into: Pushing the cable deep enough into the headset seemed really easy and it went in 1 go. (It was pretty smooth that I kept double guessing if I pushed it in far enough or not). Opening the battery compartment on my controller also was pretty easy to open up, no problems there either. Furthermore, I was totally expecting my AMD X570 Gigabyte Aurorus Pro to give me that 7-14 error, but surprisingly it didn't. It did kept saying a few times at the beginning to 'check the connection of my Headset' or something. I don't know how I fixed it, but I think I fixed it by unplugging and replugging both the displayport and USB-C. I didn't do any settings changes in windows and in games... I just started and played.

Lets get this out of the way: Tracking is not great, but, it's usable...

But before I go into the review and my experience, lets talk about my setup:

• I am using 1.5v rechargeable batteries
• The lighting in my room is 'ok-ish', not too bright, but maybe a LITTLE on the low side when it comes to brightness.
• I'm not using green screen.
• I'm not that tall (maybe it does have an impact on the tracking), about 1.7m tall.

So I only have really played 2 games so far: VRChat and Beat Saber. The VRChat, it wasn't that of a nice experience to use the controllers. Aside from the non-pixel-perfect tracking, you lose track of your arms if you idle with your arms in VRChat. (and you do this quite often in VRChat). This causes your avatar's arm go into weird position when you're doing nothing. But it does get the job done of things you want to do... Unless you want to do some of the finer movements.

In Beat Saber, because it's my very first time, I can only play on normal mode, but even here I definitely notice the tracking issue everyone keeps talking about. It also does happen frequent enough for me to miss blocks. This problem usually happens when your arms are down to the side or if you're trying to hit low blocks you look forward (to see the next block incoming) instead of looking down. I've noticed mostly the my left saber starts glitching out and appear in front of me a few times in a song. As time goes on, I got a LITTLE bit more used to area of the tracking, but it's still not great. I still can complete songs, but not perfect score yet; not even on normal. (Though if I try really hard and with a few days of practice, I think I can).

Graphics

Like everyone said, it's pretty stunning. I don't remember much when I used the VIVE, but I was definitely blown away the first time I put it on. It's not perfect-perfect, but it's really good and sharp for the most part.

Audio

I was extremely surprised at how good these are. I usually wear decent headphones, even though I'm not an audiophile. It's definitely that good that I don't even want to bother using my headphones. Definitely great.

Controllers So I have kind of small hands... It does fit in my hand, but some of the buttons are kind of awkward to press; some are a bit hard to press and some are too easy to accidentally hit. In Beat Saber, I kept accidentally hitting the button that opened up a menu and pause the game, so I had to change my grip on my controller to avoid doing that. The vibration is... Pathetic... Even though I never tried the other controller's vibration, this one is just pathetic even for a first time owner of VR. As people have said before: The vibration doesn't feel satisfactory in Beat Saber. I agree with it. That being said, I can definitely still live with it.

In conclusion I didn't really run into any major problems so far. All in all, I do love the Reverb G2 and I have a pretty good experience with it. The Achilles heel is definitely the tracking. It is doable, but it is bad enough that you will have times where you will be annoyed with it; if you play games that requires good tracking. I am definitely considering going through the trouble of getting the lighthouse tracking in the future though, but the experience hasn't been THAT bad that I'm in a rush to get them. I can definitely still put up with it.