So we’re in a new year now so lets start a 2025 News thread.
What are your predictions for 2025?
I think we’re hear from Bigscreen and DPVR by May of this year.
Collection of coverage on the RTX 50series
Not really much of a bump save AI features like frame generation insertion.
Yeah the 5090s are a massive disappointment. Massive expense for small increase in performance and massive watt draw. Crazy.
I’m sticking to the 3080 for another 2 years I think.
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Indeed maybe good if you’re into flat gaming or ai workloads. Otherwise by the looks of it a lackluster release. Using misleading gimmicks to make it look like a massive upgrade over the 40series
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My prediction for 2025?
Valve will announce their new “deckard” VR system in April, open pre-order in May for release end of June 
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Honestly, personally I’m not even that interested in Deckard at this point. I’m assuming Deckard will have about the same price point as the original Index, so around $1000. For that kind of money you just can’t create a high-end VR headset. So no way it will feature Crystal/AVP like resolution, more likely around the 3k*3k max or it might even be below that. I’m sure it will be a (very) decent headset but I’m not expecting anything ground breaking.
Just like @twack3r said I won’t be buying any headsets anymore that will be a step back from the AVP visual fidelity and also PT cams. So just like @twack3r said, I most likely won’t be even buying a new headset in 2025 … Might not even be 2026 neither.
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New Asus headset “Tarius” deep in development according to this leak: x.com
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I am going to stick with my 4090 for the time being, no need to upgrade, certainly not at that cost (and would need to upgrade the power supply too).
As for a new headset, I will stay calm. A Super with 50 PPD lenses if executed well could draw my attention, but that will take another year, and if they ever focus on making the 50 PPD lenses work properly is up in the air. The positive here would be that it would come as a proper optical engine as they call it, so not just plugging in new lenses while yelling „screw the calibration!“.
But my fear is that they will not focus enough on it and it will suck, just like their current 57 PPD sucks due to the distortion correction not being good enough yet. It seems to be a major effort, so I unfortunately believe they will be happy if they eventually manage to get it somewhat right for their main optical engine, and not bother about putting in the efforts for the alternative one. Especially if the microOLED optical engine is next in line waiting to be refined too.
So I will keep an eye on other headsets and will likely get me the Quest 4 - if it releases this year. Could be a pretty modest year in terms of investment into VR, which isn‘t that bad tbh, other hobbies have beautiful daughters too, so to say.
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Maybe the Quest Pro replacement.
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@Djonko @twack3r you might be interested in this if not aware yet.
Mkv 3d bluray. Support by the looks of for other headsets as well. Guess by ss still coming for avp
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Really good info on AVP lenses design & setup. Interestingly the AVP has around 34 PPD with possible non linear center potential of 40PPD.
@twack3r as an owner of both the AVP and XR4 do you find the XR4’s higher PPD has more clarity despite it’s other shortfalls? Imagine the poor stereo Overlap & Mura along with software instability on Varjo has been some of the issues. Which is sad for it’s price point+ subscription to use.
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