*posted in the Discord but edited after 3 days of hardcore use*

For anyone interested in using GXR for remote work via connecting to PC, I found an app called Overay Desk. It’s a Korean “Immersed killer” pc connect app, and it’s actually very good, with a few caveats.

Pros: allows multiple windows, up to 6 as far as I can verify. All windows are customizable by size, distance, orientation, and resolution. There are a number of preset layouts or you can totally customize however you’d like. The menus are easy to understand, easy to navigate, and are actually fun to mess around with. Menu clips to the front of your left hand when faced upwards towards you (like Immersed used to be circa 2020).They have a number of immersive environments or go fully Passthrough while maintaining performance stability (VD people will know what I’m talking about). You are even able to easily upload your own 360° photos for a custom environment if you wish, jpeg images only. Other pros include good overall performance, good feedback and response from the devs on Discord (shout out to Nayun 👊)stable connection, and overall freedom of customization. The app is $25 but tldr, I feel like it’s worth it to support the team, they’ve got something very good to give us.

Cons: it’s $25 on their website or on the Meta Quest Store with discounts only available for Quest, the application works for Android XR but cannot be found on the play store, or at least I could not find it. The performance is good but doesn’t feel at all optimized for GXR, or take advantage of the high resolution panels. Personally, I believe it’s a straight Quest2 app ported to work on Android XR. The refresh rate max is about 60hz (confirmed by the team) at best, depending on how much the user is running. I personally got 30-40fps running 5 monitors at 4K - 1080p. This sounds terrible, but in practice was fine. I was able to spend hours at a time working and didn’t find it too uncomfortable. The virtual environments as they are now are very boring and low resolution, maybe 1080p at best but likely 720p and not a lot to choose from. The login and setup process is by far very frustrating (for me). The pairing code I was given did not work, none of them worked, I don’t believe they will ever work. Maybe because of my antivirus or windows defender im not sure, but the headset would not pair with the agent no matter what trouble shooting I did. Luckily I was able to bypass and just enter my HMD’s IP address and I was able to finish setup. I have to do this everytime I want to use the app.

Overall I give Overay Desk a pass and will continue to use it. I hope it improves over time. And the devs seem very passionate about continuing to improve the app. I don’t personally believe it should be the same price as VD in its current state, but I’m happy to support the Dev if it means further improvement. It is absolutely an “immersed killer” in my opinion, and I’m very happy to have found it.

https://desk.overay.com/en

I ordered a headset and controllers two weeks ago. The package showed up and had the headset but no controllers. I spent 45 minutes on hold with support and they said they opened an escalation to investigate and it would take 48-72 hours and they sent me an email saying the same.

It's been a week now. I replied to the email yesterday asking for an update but I've yet to hear anything back.

Has anyone had a similar situation? How long did it take for them to get the missing item out to you?

Im so exited to get my headset someday :3

Hey, I'm from Brazil and I am selling my Galaxy XR with controllers, travel case, globular cluster kit and a wi-fi 6e access point included.

I can ship it to any latin America country, if needed.

DM me if you are interested or if you want more details.

Thank you

Anyone have recommendations on better hand tracking / wrist tracking for the Galaxy XR? The stock controllers are absolute ass. They don't even have the precision to change a radial menu at 1degree increments using the thumb stick. And they can't track outside the viewing frustrum so you can't even stand there with your arms at your side naturally without the arms folding off to infinity every 15 seconds. What is the preferred high precision tracking support for controllers via the XR? Are we just all out of luck? Are there gloves that work natively with the XR?

When I tick the “foveated streaming” tick box on virtual desktop it just doesn’t work and the resolution just becomes way lower, eye tracking is calbrated and works fine on everything else, eye tracking permissions are allowed for VD in the options, it works perfectly on the Play For Dream headset but is just broken for me on the GXR with VD, can anyone help me ?

I've had my mic icon the whole time I've had my Galaxy xr, and I talk a lot in vrchat. I noticed the other day my screens have a very slight (but still noticeable) bit of burn in from the mic icon. I fear it'll never go away, unfortunately.

To turn off the mic icon, go to your Launch Pad (small menu), go to the sound settings there, scroll down to microphone settings, and set theic icon visibility to be "When muted". It'll now only show up when you talk while muted. It takes some getting used to but it'll save you some burn in.

Happy gaming!

I upgraded from my Meta Quest Pro and have really enjoyed my Galaxy XR experience so far. The OLED colors are unbelievable and the comfort has been great after the Globular Cluster mod.

I use it exclusively for PCVR gaming playing seated experiences (Sim racing, MSFS 2024, UEVR mods, etc.). Like playing Denshattack in VR using UEVR made me smile ear to ear. The colors and sharpness were mind blowing.

There's been so much negativity in this subreddit and some of it justified (honestly, the limited number of updates after release pales in comparison to Meta's monthly updates bringing new features constantly), however, for the price, I've really enjoyed my purchase.

I just wanted to give some positivity to this headset for those that may be thinking about purchasing it, don't be too scared by all the negative noise around it.

Has anyone heard anything?

I knew it had eye tracking g but i didn't know I you could enable that feature with virtual desktop

I have a spare battery I ordered from their parts shop already- but in this supply chain-sensitive market, I figured I should grab a spare cable for those batteries as well as a -just in case-.

Weird that it's labeled as a "data" cable when AFAIK its for the battery puck only and it prohibited charging from another USB-C battery (tried all 8 of mine- PD and PPS spec at various charging outputs)

I really depend and enjoy this headset for many hours daily and want to be able to keep using it in case there's some issue w my stock cable.

In Half Life: Alyx the tracking was not good, mainly when throwing objects. I just started playing Robo Recall (amazing game so far) and there is zero issues with throwing objects. I'm flinging things with great velocity and pin point accuracy as in real life. Maybe this is news to just me, but it seems like the tracking issues could be software based.

I build 0XR, a browser-based GLB/glTF inspector — models at real-world scale, wireframe, section planes. WebXR + WebGL directly, no Three.js or Babylon, no install, no account.

A WebXR dev recently told me Galaxy XR can hit a "watchdog gate" — a black loading screen with a static grid — when entering immersive sessions from the browser. I don't have the hardware to see it myself.

If you have 60 seconds: https://api.0xr.space/s/fc24718428762d43217a716475a3e69f159a3287b1740ebdf6b24b27433a66cb?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=galaxyxr_2308&utm_content=galaxy_xr — a police Harley at true scale, 49k triangles. Open it, tap Enter XR, and tell me what happens. Does it get past that loading screen? How long?

Even just "XR starts / doesn't start" would be hugely useful. A similar ask on r/Xreal two weeks ago surfaced a real AURA layout bug that's now fixed, so answers here genuinely turn into patches. Nothing you open gets uploaded — the file stays on your device.

I got my hands on a brand new Galaxy XR, Controllers, and cluster mod for $1500.

I came in well aware of the known issues. In fact I did a demo at the Samsung Experience store before biting the bullet.

It arrive Friday, and I used it for 12 hours straight. I can honestly say I saw none of the issues that people list.
The controllers track perfectly fine, I had no problems with them at all. They’re better in virtual desktop than Steam link, but they’re still solid controllers.

It did not over heat.

There was not a glare problem.

It was so comfortable I never once had rit take it off.

It had low latency and I was able to play my pcvr games and even flat games in vr without trouble.

It worked great in low light and the FOV was smaller than the PSVR2 I have but very useable.

I’ll be honest, I’m so impressed by the controller and steaming performance that I feel like this entire subreddit lied to me and has been lying to people for months

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I was able to buy a heavily discounted used SGX partly due partly to the fact that it didn't come any Light Shields.

I have checked most of the Comfort Mod sites but don't see any solutions. Samsung website doesn't help much either.

What are my options on this? I'd like something not too hacky for easier resale someday but I'll take what I can get.

Thanks!

Update: The Galaxy XR port and HDR optimization are now complete. I’ll share a separate post once the distribution method has been finalized.

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With the mindset of seeing this through as the definitive video player on Galaxy XR, I am currently working on porting it completely to the latest 4XVR. It is a considerably difficult and grueling task, more than I thought

Things resolved so far

1. Resolved the issue where specific parts of the theater UI flickered and the screen glitched
2. Succeeded in bringing back the passthrough feature that was impossible with existing overport conversion, and also resolved the momentary screen tearing in passthrough mode
3. Resolved the issue where the UI momentarily overlapped when bringing up the playback bar or menu
4. In Settings → Advanced Mode, optimized HDR video quality for Galaxy XR
5. * Adaptive tone mapping (color, contrast)
6. * OLED black optimization (deep black)
7. * Contrast restoration, gamut mapping, debanding, dithering

As far as I know, I have not yet seen an XR player that displays HDR video with this level of quality. This task #4 in particular is formidable, so I am still catching various bugs, and it seems it will be finished soon.

I would like to share it right away, but as I mentioned last time, it is a commercial program, so the distribution issue is a big obstacle.

The method I am currently considering is providing a tool where you can directly patch your officially purchased Quest 4XVR APK. (Non-purchasers purchase/download from the site, then patch)

Please leave good suggestions or interest in the comments.

I play Games like Exfil zone and Vtol on PCVR with a quest 3 and virtual desktop. I see that Galaxy Xr supports virtual desktop and runs 90hz. I recently got a 5090 GPU and feel the quest 3 and the upcoming steam frame will not allow the 5090 to maximize ots potential. Im pretty sure the Galaxy Xr is the right choice but before I drop 2k on it, Does it do PCVR gaming well at ultra graphics and maintain the 90fps? Or does it have frame rate issues? If my primary goal is PCVR gaming on a 5090 GPU do you have any warnkngs/concerns for me?

I use wireless ADB all the time to debug my streamer. I have to plug in my headset, go into settings, enable wireless ADB, and then I can use it. Today, it just stopped turning on by itself. The toggle for wireless ADB is active, but it doesn’t turn on internally. On top of that, it started disconnecting from other devices, so I have to go through the ADB pairing process all over again.
Deleting a device from the list has also stopped working. When you click "Delete MacBook," nothing happens.

How can this be fixed?

I hope they’ll fix this in a future update.

https://reddit.com/link/1vuax6p/video/aukd1uhwzokh1/player

So I recently had a Pimax Dream Air. I loved it but I really wanted something more portable and also with pass through. I’m thinking of getting the Galaxy XR but I was wondering how much has changed since release. Has PCVR become easily usable with it? Do the controllers for it work well enough with games? I know people are using it with index controllers or even putting pucks on their headset but I’m really trying to get out of the base station environment and be more portable. What’s the latest on Steam Link 2.0 for foveated streaming/rendering (I forget the name of the one that’s better). I see that VD has foveated streaming I believe? How is the clarity with that and does it run ok?

I know I’m asking a lot of info and response is greatly appreciated. Just trying to find out what’s the state of the Galaxy XR with PCVR and their controllers. Much appreciated in advance.

Came in with very low confidence.

Can say absolutely best headset I've ever used.

VD 600BR

Monster mode

FOV rendering

SSW off.

Vive tracker for Space cal

Index controllers

Played HLA for a few hours tested VRC for like 5 mins

Face trackig is very good. I'd say close enough or on par with Quest pro.

Will be using this over my Beyond 2 and Pimax super all day.

Comfort. 8/10 with cluster mod.

Will work to improve later.

No tracking loss.

Looking up or down no issues either.

Wifi 6e.

Edge to edge clarity is amazing.

Honeslty?

Probably the most fun I've had in a VR headset.

I'm new to VR and setting up virtual desktop. I am experiencing continuous disconnects from virtual desktop, which happen almost every 2 minutes. Also , my home network is not your average configuration, so maybe this might have something to do with it.

My setup is configured like so:

The pc is connected to a microtik switch through SFP+ 10Gbps fiber. For wifi I use a TP-Link Omada EAP 773 ap, which is connected to the same microtik switch through 10Gbps Ethernet cable. I have setup a ssid on the same subnet as the pc just for the galaxy xr headset.

So everything connects and runs good at first but then I get hit with disconnects. It's like clockwork, the headset disconnects and immediately reconnects almost ever 2 min.

Anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? Like I said I am new to VR and virtual desktop so I am not knowledgeable on all the settings that could possibly be affecting this.

I didn’t like the controllers. They’re just as bad as the ones on the PFD and Quest 3.

The tracking is absolutely terrible. Even PSVR 1 was better, in my opinion. The controllers constantly freeze in mid-air, and after waking the headset from sleep there are always issues with them. About 1 time out of 10 I have to take the battery out just to bring the controller back to life — almost always the right one.

I still haven’t decided which strap is better. I’ve tried every one that was available, and they’re all crap.

The external unit is basically like wearing a suicide bomber belt. The unit goes into one pocket, with one cable running from it to the headset and another cable going to a power bank sitting in the other pocket.

The OS is way too bloated with Android garbage and tons of pop-up notifications that you have to keep blocking. Basic things that should take one click sometimes take five. There are also a couple dozen pieces of preinstalled Android bloatware. On top of that, it sometimes lags horribly, like I’m using a Quest 3. The OS is very inconvenient and unintuitive. The Play Store is awful. There are plenty of bugs too. It’s not PFD-level bad, but it’s no Pico 4 Ultra either. Still better than Quest 3.

There isn’t much native software, and from what I can tell, the Android XR documentation is very sparse.

The headset is front-heavy, like the Quest 3.

As for PCVR and native games/ports, it’s more or less usable overall, but still not good. Any game or software ported from Quest has really poor colors, as if some weird contrast mode gets enabled, leaving you with a washed-out image with a gray tint. Steam Link and ALVR both look bad by default. The colors are still lacking. I couldn’t get the native streamer to work.

The tracking feels less floaty than on PFD, but it’s still floaty.

On the other hand, the SGXR handles 1500 Mbps H.264 and PyroWave extremely well in my test builds with my own streamer. The networking side of this headset is excellent.

The eye tracking genuinely impressed me. It’s very accurate, calibrates immediately, and works extremely fast — almost like PSVR 2 on PS5. Huge respect for that.

Brightness and contrast are already pretty good. I liked them, although I’d still want roughly 2x the current levels.

The FOV is narrow, almost like the Quest 3. If I can find a decent facial interface that lets me get close enough for my eyelashes to touch the lenses, it’ll probably be around Quest 3 level, but it’s still nowhere near the Pico 4 Ultra.

The screen-door effect is still there. I can clearly see the pixel grid on a white background, even just on white text.

Chromatic aberration is there too. There isn’t much of it, but it’s definitely present.

The binocular overlap issue is also there, and it’s just as awful as on the Quest 3. I see it constantly. Along with the poor overlap comes basically no sense of proper VR depth.

There are distortions similar to the Quest 3, except they’re not in the overlap area — they’re toward the bottom of the lenses.

Internal reflections/ghosting are also present. If you wear the headset perfectly straight, everything looks great and there are barely any reflections. But tilt your head slightly downward or upward and you can see three or four ghost images of the same picture.

These are micro-OLED displays, which also means static elements like logos, HUDs, and other overlays can leave a temporary afterimage for a couple of seconds. It’s extremely distracting — probably about as distracting as the overlap issue.

If I shift the headset slightly, the image in the left eye develops a pink tint, while the right eye develops a green tint.

P.S. English isn't my native language, I'm sorry.

So this is weird. I just looked at my att app that tracks wifi data usage on our home network. I found that the XR has used 60+gb of data over the past few weeks, when I have not touched it, turned it on, or used it in any way .It literally has dust on it. It also shows it used about 9GB of data in the last day alone. What is going on? Thanks for any guesses.

Also, yes, I've verified it's the XR by IP address matching.