THROUGH THE LENSES - Bigscreen Beyond 2 vs Bigscreen Beyond

What is the program you are using for the text area of testing I can't find it in steam because I don't know the name of it.

Hi Ty, i am thinking about upgrading from the Quest 3. A comparison would be nice. Love your content, cheers, Hans

Mixer shirt is a blast from the past

I do remember noticing the screen door effect on my bsb 1 at 3500x3500 and 75 hz. Did annoy me.

Looks great, resolution is good enough for current gen of GPUs.
I'd like to see future gens of panels and lenses allow for this level of crispness with higher FOVs, like 130° HFOV and above.

So they lower the contrast and use even warmer color palette to deal with glare 🤔. Not as clear in sweet spot vs Beyond 1 and still no software flexibility for color adjustment makes it more like a half upgrade

ps5 vs ps5 pro:

I was wondering how do the BSB 2 lenses compare to the Quest 3/Pro lenses?

I wish Bigscreen would update their resolution brightness and especially display port 2.1

I would like to see a comparison between the big screen beyond2 and the play for dreams as those are the two headsets I am thinking of buying

Hey Tyriel, great content as always as I know takes a lot of time and effort to get these views from inside the actual unit. So greatly appreciate it! I am curious on your thoughts if you still think Varjo are the best headsets on the market if money is no option? Hoping for a review on their latest headset against some of the other high end contenders.

Can you do BSB2 vs MeganeX 8K Superlight with Sboys3 Distortion Fix and both headsets running at 90 Hz? There's a heated discussion in the MeganeX Discord with people claiming the MeganeX isn't mich sharper than the BSB1 when using your Through The Lens comparison the BSB1 is running at 75 Hz and the MeganeX without Sboys3 Distortion Fix. I have both headsets and have tried to argue that when running both at 90 Hz and the MeganeX with Sboys3 fix the MeganeX is way sharper as putting the BSB in 90 Hz mode drops the resolution to 1920x1920 and internally upscales to 2560x2560 due to the limitations of DSC. I've literally said this in three consecutive comments and it's not registering by those who insist the sharpness difference is negligible to non-existent. I own BSB1, BSB2 and MeganeX and I'm on team MeganeX.

wow

learn to speak english already. you've been doing this for too long to be this bad at english.

If you plan on doing more through the lens of the MeganeX, you might want to wait for next week when I release the custom shader for even more sharpness. Although it does require 3x the 1:1 resolution to get the most out of it. If you set the fov to 70x70 and the steamvr render resolution to 300% to 500% it will be about as sharp as the headset can physically get with the shader.

BSB 2 vs PCL vs PCS please

Is the BSB2 running much lower fps in AC?

thank you for the very in depth analysis! although im nowhere near able to get a beyond 1 or 2 this keeps me excited for the future when they do become affordable at around the same price as a q3 for example.

I miss you brother

Thank you so much for this video. Having both the same panel resolution, one might not expect to have more defined images in the focused center, but YES!! you clearly showed how important is the "RESOLVING POWER" of a lens and why we should not look only at panel resolution but to what you actually see through the lens. It would be interesting to see how this compares to the most popular PCVR headset (Quest3) and all those new 4Ks like MeganeX

Its June already , just ship the damn thing😂❤

That's some upgrade

Thanks for doing this comparison. It really demonstrates how important lense quality is. It was surprising to see how much sharper and clearer the image is, despite using the same panels! I’m pretty much sold on the BSB2.

What FOV in horizon? 115° ? or it in diagonal?

I want it to be wireless

They don’t run that resolution at 90hz, instead they run native at 75Hz. Might want to correct that statement there.

The same image

The BSB2 is amazing but too expensive, plus you need lighthouses and 3rd party controllers.

ALSO: with the Reverb G2 back from the dead thanks to the coming OASIS Steam driver from mbucchia, I really won't need a better headset for good. The Reverb G2 along with Quest 3 and Psvr2 will satisfy all my VR enthusiast's needs for many years i think. Especially now that we have the hardware to FULLY exploit those headset, especially the Reverb G2 (but I can assure you that even the Psvr2 can be absolutely AMAZING in many games).

Thank you, love my original beyond but it did have many compromises especially how poor the edge to edge clarity is. Excited to get the big screen 2 which looks like it mitigates all the biggest weaknesses of the previous headset, was not expecting clarity to also go up but this video shows that as well. This just might be the first headset I own where I feel I don't have to accept a ton of compromises. FYI I run my current headset with the VR wire 2 cable management system and the cord is not an issue. FYI I also found a way to increase perceived brightness in the headset with out increasing persistence. In Steam install fpsVR go to the advanced section and crank up the RGB values (you can also use this to tone down warm color setting if you want)

Wearing a Mixer t-shirt in 2025 honestly goes insanely hard

does anyone know if you need dongles for the valve controllers if your using the BS2 since i know the index has them built in but idk about this headset

This video is fantastic. Dropled a sub!

I may be asking for too much but could you please do a through the lens of the Beyond 2 and the Quest3? Im looking to upgrade and I'm not sure if the price is justifiable since I use the headset mainly for sim-racing.

Thanks!

That can't be right. I hope what your saying isnt true. The whole reason I wanted micro oled was for suoer dark black levels.

If this headset looks as bad as a quest 3 lcd i need to cancel my order.

What’s your take on meta leaving VR gaming?

Very nice, glad to hear its worth the upgrade. But man, they still haven't shipped any and its nearly mid June.

I'm was really hoping to have very dark darks, if it has any level of bright greys-darks it will be probably not what I want :p but maybe better than an LCD?

Bsb2 vs Quest 3 plz. I am thinking about getting either Q3 or waiting for Pimax Dream Air and since it is not out yet, Bsb2 is the closest to it and i wanna see if it is worth to wait.

Both MeganeX and PfD would be awesome.

Holy fk that clarity and the sweet spot increase!

It's interesting that color temperature changed - seen in AC.
BSB 1 always felt warmer.

Excellent Work As Usual 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

As a company i think BigScreen are doing everything correctly, very transparent with their goals, design and even flaws, when they released the beyond v1 they didn't try a avoid the fact that there was glare, they were open and honest about it, v2 ses all the negative aspects of rhe headset fixed, theyve really listened to feedback and fixed all the issues.
Its refreshing to see a compamy conduct themselves in this way.
As a betond 1 owner, ive been very happy with the build quality, reliability and customer support Ive had. Pre ordering a v2 was a no brainer.
Pimax could learn a thing or two from bigscreen, asumumg pimax are willing to chamge..

i am so excited for my bsb 2 after watching this. holy smokes what a big difference in clarity and colors and just overall very surprised at the huge difference between the bsb 1 and 2. besides the edges of the lenses being blurry when your not in the sweetspot on the bsb 1 i thought it was really good so i will be estatic once my bsb 2 comes in after watching this. thank you for the video.

These 2 comments from you tell me much more then the whole TTL video: "but yeah, there are better screens out there" and "I use it at 75hz, I can't stand the loss of quality at 90". Enough said! Thx. The form factor is great, but it's in instant skip for me.

I can tell some of the shots had higher resolution than the other. Not quite apples to apples.

When will the review drop?

BSB increased HFOV by reducing stereo overlap.
It was one of major reasons why I didn't jump at the headset immediately.

what's next? your pick!