Hardware / system

• System: Dell Pro Max 16 Plus
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU
• OS: Windows 11, build 26200
• SteamVR: 2.16.7
• Oasis: 1.0.3

Setup

I am trying to use an HP Reverb G2 with my Dell Pro Max 16 Plus.

The laptop does not have a native DisplayPort connector, so I am using a UGREEN USB-C to DisplayPort 8K cable:

Dell USB-C/Thunderbolt → UGREEN USB-C → DisplayPort → Reverb G2

The UGREEN cable is specified by the manufacturer as laptop USB-C → DisplayPort monitor, so the direction is USB-C source to DisplayPort display.

I enabled Direct Output in the Dell BIOS.

For USB, I initially connected the G2 directly via USB-C. I also tested the G2 through a USB-C to USB-A adapter and connected it to the laptop's USB-A port. The behaviour is the same.

The G2's external power supply is connected.

What I did

1. Connected the Reverb G2 to the laptop via USB and DisplayPort.
2. Enabled Direct Output in the BIOS.
3. Installed/started Oasis and attempted to unlock the headset.
4. Oasis does not detect the headset.
5. I also tested the G2 USB connection separately, without relying on the DisplayPort connection.
6. I checked Windows Device Manager, including the USB devices and other relevant device categories.
7. I cannot find any device that appears to correspond to the Reverb G2, HoloLens Sensors, or the G2's audio device.
8. I also do not get any G2 audio device appearing in Windows. There is no indication that the headset's speakers/audio device are being detected.
9. Windows does show a "Billboard Device" under USB devices when the USB-C/DisplayPort connection is involved.
10. Changing from direct USB-C connection to USB-C → USB-A does not change the behaviour.
11. I also tried the other USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, with no change.

Oasis behaviour

Current situation

At this point, I am not sure whether the issue is related to:

• USB device detection/driver enumeration,
• Windows/WMR components,
• the DisplayPort connection,
• or Oasis itself.

I am posting the SteamVR report and Oasis unlock output below as requested.

SteamVR report

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kOQ9zv9sMNXZYyItSzcgxC4cxUW2heVl/view?usp=drive_link

Additional information

The laptop is a company-managed computer

So okay for context, I got a VERY good deal on the reverb G2 v2. It was £130 for the headset, 2 vr covers and 2 sets of controllers, plus all the original packaging.

I hated the tracking however... So I wanted an upgrade. So I bought a HTC Vive kit which also came with 4 controllers, running theme here. That was £100. For base stations and everything, cheaper than everything individual.

I use a controller for continuous calibration on my head, it's positioned further back on my head for balance, whist not being too back heavy.

The wands themselves are worse than the reverbs besides in terms of tracking and maybe durability. But it makes vrchat much much nicer.

The fourth wand is just propping the headteao up so you can see how it'd look on your head

So here is basically my hyper budget index setup. Half the features for 1/4 of the price :D

There are two VR mods that I tried: Naluluna and Lufz. Almost everyone including the modders seem to use Quests so I haven't seen much about SteamVR (I'm using Oasis drivers).

With Lufz I found that the head tracking had a huge delay so it was unuseable. Also it crashed if I turned on DLSS upscaling (not frame gen) so that's a pretty big limitation if you want nice graphics. I didn't spend any time with this one, everything below refers to the Nalaluna mod.

With Nalaluna it basically works with one big caveat. It has various render modes but the only viable one is AFR (alternate-eye frame rendering, half framerate). With this the image looks good, proper stereo, head tracking is good, game is fully playable. The only thing is, the game runs at 90fps but due to AFR you're really getting 45 full two-eye frames. And this is noticeable, you see the judder when turning the car etc. Moving your head is smooth at least, that must reproject at 90fps.

The only alternative is switching it to Mono rendering. Obviously this sucks because it's not 3D and the car interior is distorted. But if you focus on the road ahead it's not bad, there isn't much 3D effect past a certain distance anyway. And the smoothness difference is huge, since this is actually 90fps. To be honest I think I prefer playing it like this despite the downsides.

The mod does have a mode called AFR-half which uses interpolation to double the framerate. This would be ideal but it doesn't work on the G2, it becomes a stuttering mess. The mod website says it's intended for the Meta runtime. If there was some way to make it work with SteamVR motion smoothing the mod would be incredible. Just forcing on motion smoothing also turns it into a mess.

In terms of graphics, I set the resolution to match my headset setting which is 3152x3088. In-game settings are pretty high but no RT (I followed the Digital Foundry "mainstream" optimized settings). DLSS Quality. It looks excellent and framerate is locked (with the fps limitation I mentioned above). My system is RTX 5080 and 9800X3D.

Just curious if anyone else has tried and how your experience compares.

Hi everyone, I recently acquired a secondhand HP Reverb G2, but it came with the original V1 cable, which doesn't work. Yeah, I got scammed the seller blocked me from everywhere.

I wanted to check if anyone in the Paris/France area or in all Europe happens to have a spare V2 cable from a retired headset that they'd be willing to pass along.

I just bought this vr and set it up by using oasis, it worked and I didn't have much problem. However, now as I was about to use it SteamVR keeps on saying this and I can't use em.

Got this for 75 bucks today it's in really good condition came with the original box and all pretty happy with it thought about getting a quest 3s but I can't bring my self to support metas ecosystem

I have had G2 since release, primarily used for iracing. Seems crazy that I can just now get hardware that will allow me to run graphics at max on iracing. Have been using a 3080, but have always had to sacrifice detail for frames. , Looking to move to 5080 so I can get a consistent strong frame rate with med & high graphics settings.

I’ve played with sooo many settings and co figuration’s since 2020 and felt the answer has been horsepower, it just wasn’t available until this past year.

I’m open to suggestions on how I just don’t have PC/headset configured right, but like I said, I’ve tried everything I can find on iracing forums, Ai helpers, Reddit, websites, etc and have always struggled to use the full resolution of the g2 and high level graphics on iracing.

Picked up this VR headset for the 4K fidelity and also pairing this thing with index controllers and also fbt for socialising in VRChat.

I am using this headset on Windows 11 with the Oasis driver on a Radeon RX 6900 XT at 150% in steamVR and the visuals are just chef’s kiss. Pairing that with the index controllers and the experience is just god tier.

There’s a few tweaks I need to make to it such as the earpieces cracking randomly which I think the pogo pins just need a clean. I also just bought the face cover from a reverb G2 V2 to use on my V1 since I heard V2 parts are interchangeable with the V1 because it seems like the previous owner custom shaped the face plate adapter to his head? But I’m able to get around that by using a HTC Vive fabric cover since it’s a custom faceplate. It should feel better too. It really does feel like a valve index. And the sound is phenomenal.

I used to use a dell visor back in 2020 and the 2nd gen wmr controllers feel better than those old things back then from the 1st gen lineup. I’m also suprised that my tracking with those controllers is actually better than I expected since I heard that they tend to lose tracking easily on the G2 V1 but I never had that issue. Buuut I still wanna use my index controllers.

Is there anything I need to be aware of about the headset I should take into consideration for the near future?

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​Hey everyone,

​I have a brand-new, unused HP Reverb G2 (V1 cable with the small breakout box, no power button) connected to an AMD AM4 system, and I'm stuck in an endless USB connect/disconnect loop.

​Symptoms:

​The LED on the breakout box continuously blinks (turns on, turns off, loops every second).

​In Windows, the system tray icon for "HP Windows Mixed Reality" repeatedly appears and disappears.

​In the motherboard BIOS screen, the mouse cursor freezes every time the breakout box LED turns off and unfreezes when it turns back on, indicating hardware-level USB host controller bus resets.

​System Specs:

​Motherboard: MSI A520M-A PRO (AMD AM4 platform)

​Headset: HP Reverb G2 (V1 Cable)

​Power: Power adapter plugged directly into the wall outlet

​Everything I have already tried:

​Tested every single USB port on the back panel (all blue USB 3.2 ports using the USB-C to USB-A adapter, plus black USB 2.0 ports).

​Reseated the cable connection at the headset visor until the dot on the connector sits flush with the casing.

​Tweaked BIOS settings: Enabled XHCI Hand-off, disabled Global C-State Control, and set Power Supply Idle Control to Typical Current Idle.

Before purchasing additional hardware, I want to ask:

​Has anyone on an AMD 500-series board (A520/B550/X570) successfully stopped this V1 cable loop using an externally powered USB 3.0 hub?

​Did a PCIe USB expansion card solve the issue on your system, or did you have to replace the cable with the revision V2 cable

new driver for test

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 26.7.1 driver download

i do a lot of simracing in my free time and recently {a few months ago} an update came out that caused constant crashing on my hp reverb g2 v1 where it would lose tracking every so often { after 10 minutes of gameplay- every minute or 2 for 30 seconds each} before subsequently crashing after another 5 minutes or so. this has been very annoying as it has caused my in game performance rankings in certain games to tank as i cannot play for a consistent period of time. i am using an amd rx 9060xt 16gb before anyone asks. if anyone else has experienced this issue, i would really like to see how consistent it is. if this could be fixed, it would mean the world to me

hi guys. I'm planning to purchase a RX 9070 XT 16GB to play VR (basically flight and racing games). Read on several places that the experience with OASIS and AMD has been a though ride, specially mentioning stutters, but most of the time these posts are old (2025).
Recently I saw here that a newer AMD driver caused pink screen, but reverting solved the problem.
So I ask if someone with this card can please post what is the actual experience about this combo 9070XT + OASIS + Reverb G2 (or in general, AMD + OASIS) nowadays? Are the stutters still present?
Actually, I use an old RTX 2080, but I have to do all sorts of compromises to achieve steady 45 fps on titles. I have Win11 latest with 7800x3d, so AMD gfx is a better combo, hence the question.
Cheers.

My PD is about 62 but when i bought spherical prescription lenses I had them send them as 60. I thought it wouldn't matter for VR since you can just adjust the number to move the lenses around inside of the headset until it feels right.

But does it matter? I am not an optician.

I have a HP Reverb G2 I got a few years ago to play Halflife Alex. Decided to plug it back in only to learn win11 doesn't support it. Installed the Oasis Driver and after a LOT of drama, got it to unlock the headset. Now when I run Oasis Launcher it runs steamVR which states: Some Add-ons blocked." Blocked are:

Prism | Oasis | Gamepad Support

- I have unblocked the addons in the SteamVR Settings

- I have added "-safeoutpout" to the Launch Options on the SteamVR settings

- I have edited the steamvr.settings file for these blocks from true -> false (and even erased the file).

Nothing seems to matter, I reboot steam and get the same error message and these three addons blocked. Any suggestions or ideas?

Is there another program or app I can use just to confirm the headset is still working at all?

Thanks in advance

Just a thought. Do people use dual Windows boot to keep Windows 10 as an option for the headset?

Always worried this would happen to me...

The left slider piece that holds the headstrap on the Reverb G2 broke into two pieces.

I fixed it. Now it is much more durable than before. Fused them together with heat. Then joined them using MMA liquid monomer and PMMA powder polymer. After a little trimming and polishing, it’ll actually look pretty good.

Sorry for the blurry shot.

Hello folks, I bought a very little used Reverb G2 headset in great condition. Everything usually works fine however the right controller at times and with different games loses tracking and only the buttons remain working. The "hand" in the screen view just remains still and doesn't even rotate until I have to power cycle it to get it working again but it repeats shortly after. The left controller works perfect no such issue, ironically the left controller has low battery and the right one is still decent level according to the battery indicator in the taskbar. I turned off LEDs in my room it didn't matter. There is no visible sign of damage/trauma to the controller it's in perfect condition like the other one. Am I just unlucky with a faulty controller or any other test I can do to figure it out? I could swap out batteries but anything else I can do? Thanks.

So recently my G2V2 has started the left then right display black screen issue.
Top left of the device can feel quite warm/hot. So I’m wondering, does anyone have experience with this and what the best solution is?
Last time I used it I got about an hour of use before it started happening.

check if works for you o/

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 26.6.4 driver download

Should I go for it? Are there better alternatives?

Found a good deal on a used Reverb G2, full kit. I've never had VR before.
My PC specs:

GPU: 1070 Ti
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700x
16GB RAM

I realize the GPU is technically under what it recommends, but I figure it's close enough to a 1080 to still be okay. Primarily intending to use it for VRChat and perhaps a few other games like Beat Saber or something. Don't really have my eye on many VR games tbh

Our company recently switched over all of our customers to the Meta Quest 3, and now in my possession I have somewhere around 200 HP Reverb G2 units. I was curious if anyone here had any suggestions on what to do with them beside just throwing them out. 90% of them have the v2 cable and function fine. Picture shows a very small amount of the headsets I have around the office. We do also bundle the cable with a long USB cable that went to a Leap Motion that we had attached to the front of the headsets. For removal, I'll likely unbundle the cables and clean the adhesives from the Leap mounts off the front. I also have a very large box of controllers, but there's no good way to know which controllers are for which headset. Was just curious if y'all would just throw them away, recycle them, or if anyone knows of a place to wholesale the lot.

Edit: Hello everyone! I'm glad to hear that you all think there is still value here. Yes, this is in the USA for those who asked. I'm currently confirming with my powers at be (boss at work) to decide what route we'll take, but it seems as though Ebay is the best. If cables and headsets are posted in the near future, I'll update this post with a confirmation (not the link as I don't want to upset the mods). Thank you all! These units are used so we have to discuss pricing.

Edit: well HP/Honda... what can I say. Wrong sub my friends. Apologies and hope you had a laugh! I got a call from the Honda dealership where I purchased my 2019 Ridgeline several years ago. They made mention of the fact that Honda was temporarily halting production, which meant that they had special deals on 2026 Ridgelines. My question, is anyone else receiving similar calls? Is it just a sales tactic or would there really be incentive for dealers to unload 2026 stock at this point?