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Re:Oculus Quest 2 by sudosysgen on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:56PM (#24499004)
The Valve Index only went with LCD in order to use a new LCD tech that allowed high refresh rates and low persistence, it was a downgrade in all other ways except refresh rate. The Quest 2 and Quest 1 have the same refresh rate, so it's a side-grade at-best.

Contrast matters a lot in VR, too.

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Re:Oculus Quest 2 by modeless on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:04PM (#24499083)
This is false, Quest 2 has 20% faster refresh rate than Quest 1 (in hardware, software support is coming after launch). You don't know if persistence was improved or not (my guess is it was). As I mentioned, OLED contrast is limited in VR due to the fresnel lenses and black smear correction, and my comment lists several other areas that are upgrades over OLED that you just ignored.
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