Let’s face it, the original Crystal was an expensive jack-of-all master-of-none abomination that should never have existed, and because the Light still uses the same form factor it’s not much better, but people desperate for a solution to an under-served PCVR market will have to make due because there is nothing else at this price point which compares if your solely concern is PCVR gaming with good image quality.

Things I like about it:

-The screens are crisp and bright with good color and contrast. -The FOV and sweet spot are acceptable.

What I don’t like about it:

-Pretty much everything else…

I haven’t suffered any technical issues so that’s good but It’s clunky, its heavy, it’s uncomfortable without aftermarket upgrades, the stock audio sucks (I’m able to use my over ear headphones after taking off the speaker posts at least), it gets very warm and sweaty on the face very quickly even for sit down applications, the built in tracking is inferior to the Quest, the lenses are inferior to the pancake lenses of the Quest, the smart smoothing isnt as good as the asynchronous spacewarp of the Quest… I could go on but thats the gist…

The Quest 3 is just so nice and comfortable and easy to use even though the image is a bit fuzzier and duller. Sometimes I’m not even particularly impressed with the visuals of the PCL when I put it on, probably mostly due to the distortions from the aspheric lenses but also depending on the game I’m playing…

I knew what I was getting into and whether good or bad my expectations were fully met in every way. I’m just so tired of every single PCVR headset having so many compromises. I still have some time to decide on keeping this one and the problem is that the decision shouldn’t be this hard…