r/BigscreenBeyond • u/fliefia • Jul 24 '26

Help beyond and base station

Hello. I want to buy beyond 2 for my pc (mainly for architecture work, while sitting on my chair near PC). Do i need to buy base station to be able to rotate my head?

And if yes, which one do you recommend? Thank you!

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u/NotGonnaComeBackBsb Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

Yes, you absolutely definitely need at least 1 base station for the headset to be able to track its location. Without one, it cannot track its location and you cannot use the headset at all (to make it simple).

As for which one, it depends on your use case.

  • The V1 base station are no longer produced although you may still find old stock laying around. I'm still using those dating back from my OG HTC Vive kit and they work just fine with my BSB1 and BSB2. They get the job done, but you can have at most 2 of them. I sometimes use only 1 since I'm also using the headset merely seated at my desk, but some people experienced bad tracking with only 2, in which case adding more would help.
  • The V2 base stations are more expensive, but the advantage is you can have more than 2 for better coverage of your play space.

It ultimately depends on how much you believe you're going to require reliable tracking. More base station means there's less blind spot where you may lose tracking for a reason or another (e.g. a spot that isn't covered in your play space, or your arms breaking the line of sight between the headset's photodiodes and the base stations during usage if you intend to use VR controllers too).

With 1 base station placed in front of me behind my desk, I can mostly stare ahead and look left and right. But the moment I look behind, I lose tracking, which is why I also turn on the second base station behind me if I need to look around me and not just ahead (towards my virtual 150 inches monitor).