MRTV and Sweviver are your best in town when it comes to honest, genuine and professional reviews and impressions of headsets. They have tried every single headset on the market. MRTV will be reviewing the XTAL 180º FOV HMD unit in the next 3 three months. I'll be keeping an eye out for that review in particular, since I'm considering buying one(it's $5800USD).
Thanks!
I checked MRTV, their reviews may be accurate but they are far too short and they seem to rate almost everything (except one uncomfortable and low-FOV WMR set) as great with like around an 8 including the stand alone VR sets but I guess they rate those for what they are and not in comparison to the PC stuff. Still, I can't find mention of use case scenarios where the WMR controllers falter for example. Every WMR HMD review of theirs mentions the same negative point about that not being great in some cases but the actual review focuses on the headset alone and I don't see any separate review of the controllers or any mention of the different HMD having any changes to the reliability or distance of the tracking due to potentially slightly differing camera placement.
Now I understand that WMR will obviously have trouble (or rather, altogether stop) tracking things not within the cameras' view (which is larger than your own gameplay field of view though) but I really want to know if it's completely 1:1 without issues when in front of you, I'm very interested in all the good VR shooters as I'm a fan of lightgun games too but I do not want to compromise my aim in any way whatsoever. Even if the games have visual aids like tracers or large hit effects to intuitively help you adjust any not-quite-right aiming and still play the game comfortably, I really want this aspect to be perfect 1:1 so it feels just right at all times and every single missed shot is my own fault rather than the controllers' messing up or accumulating drift or whatever else so that I may first need to miss, see the effect, then adjust.
They also haven't reviewed the Odyssey or the Odyssey + as far as I can tell. I will search through the youtuber you mentioned later but with a quick search earlier on my phone (in the youtube app which isn't so great for that, I couldn't even do a search within his channel and so just checked his different playlist sections for a bit) I didn't find he has reviewed as many sets as the MRTV website himself.
At least I found out about this ipd eye distance thing and how only the Odyssey and the Vive/Rift and other high end sets offer adjusting the lenses to your own, that might be why some reviews praised and others trashed the same lower end WMR set, the reviewer's eye distance might have been too different to the average which led to impossible to focus screens. Now I'm trying to find a way to measure mine lol.
I also watched a random video of someone playing SUPERHOT VR on a WMR set and he even had trouble starting the game up because he couldn't shoot himself so I guess that kind of close range tracking is one of the cases where WMR falters but then again it might have also been a fluke, I don't know without someone doing extensive tracking testing, it's like most places take it for granted now and don't do that when at the dawn of modern VR I seem to recall many youtubers and what not having videos where they stress tested the tracking of both HMD and controllers as they messed around and tried different things.
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