Recently we finally went hands-on with the Valve Index, which definitely took its sweet time coming to Australia. As a bit of high-end VR for PC it doesn't stand alone, there's also this - the HTC VIVE Pro 2. Which, with its 2448 x 2448 pixels per eye it offers up an impressive 5K VR experience.

The HTC VIVE Pro 2 is a high-end consumer grade bit of VR for PC that offers up unmatched per-eye resolution (5K in total) and a wide horizontal field-of-view of 120-degrees. Two features that come together to create some of the crispest and most cinematic VR we’ve seen to date. When it comes to VR headsets the higher the resolution the less chance you’ll notice what’s called the screen-door effect. Essentially the high-res display of the Pro 2 helps make all text and objects clear and easy to see, free from shimmering and artefacts whilst reducing the blurriness that has been par for the course with modern VR.

Is there a catch? Sure, and that’s where the high-end part of the equation comes into play -- you’ll need a fairly recent and powerful GPU to make the most of the increase in resolution. For the purposes of this review we paired the HTC VIVE Pro 2 with a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and a laptop equipped with a GeForce RTX 3070 mobile GPU.

Our Full HTC VIVE Pro 2 Review