Well, how about starting off with some more news and reports from the tester to get things back on track? Including a rather interesting one about the FoV.
So, they did not show their exact settings or what degree they offset it, but the tester said that they played around with the software IPD offsets and ended up getting these results in Risa’s tool
H 109.74 V 93.77 Diagnal 119.29 overlap 77.71
They also said that after this and playing around with the face foam’s fit/moving it around, they said that they were getting around 102 horizontal visible to them in TestHMD. I asked about vertical, but he didn’t give me a number, stating that the vertical FoV let him see a lot more below his eyes than he could above them, so sounds like TestHMD wouldn’t quite give the right impression there. These(That is, what he visibly saw) are ridiculously higher numbers than he initially reported and a few degrees higher than he reported getting without any face foam. That cost to stereo overlap though is… Not good, very not good. It does make me a bit uncertain on if the lenses were truly wrong, but I still find the whole thing perplexing as while I could totally believe people at the roadshows wouldn’t notice a couple degrees less than the Index, I can’t believe they wouldn’t notice an over 20 degree and 30 degree difference. It could perhaps be that this person just has a particularly bad faceshape for VR and we only have a sample size of 1 for TestHMD, and maybe the lenses are scuffed, so I’m focusing more on the Risa2000 numbers, since those are less subjective. I distinctly remember some buzz around the VP2’s FoV at its launch cause one reviewer seemed to have a very poor faceshape for it’s design and got low FoV, so could perhaps be a similar case here until we get a greater sample size on the visible FoV to the end user.
Oh, and to break from the FoV briefly, they said the inside-out tracking was fine and they “used it a lot”. Compared it to the Pico 4 and sounded like it was about on par. Described it as fine for most games, but obviously, LH is still more accurate with better volume.