I haven't tried Air Link yet but I did try Steam Link and Virtual Desktop. Basically from what I understand, you need to upsample the video resolution sent to the headset by at least 40% to get around the barrel distortion and get 1:1 pixel ratio in the center of the screen. I'm not sure how high the streaming resolution goes on Air Link but on Steam Link it's pitifully low at like 1536, which is good for fast paced pvp games but really meh for the rest. Honestly just get VD, set the streaming resolution to godlike (3072x3216 per eye), set your steam vr rendering res to 100% and play any game. You'll notice right away how sharp things can be! I've got a 4080 and I can just manage fallout 4 and skyrim vr at that resolution at around 72-80~ fps I played RE8 last year and it ran very well as well with praydog's mod. I need to get 7 since I heard it's more horror oriented.
Yeah, Steam Link is a load of ass juice. Keep in mind the stock maximum is 1344... 1536 is a value you have to set by forcing it into the config text file and it brings the entire interface to its knees. I think I've reached the cap with Airlink... it may also be a wifi 5 limit, but at 1:1 res, going at or over 90Hz seems to maker things gradually fall apart. Now that I found a consistent limit with Airlink I can finally move on to VD and see how well it beats old Airlink. I just hope it does well over wifi 5, which has been Airlink's forte over time. Also distortion curvature normally increases pixel density in the center. I think the 40% you refer to is for the outsides of the view, not the center. The center is normally way, way above 1:1 even on low spec, depending on the curvature setting. It was actually a problem with the PiMax since it would shrink the view center so much, you'd end up squandering whatever excess resolution the device had.
Wifi 5 might be tight. I'm on a cheap Wifi 6 router (ASUS RT-AX55 about 70$) and anything above 250mbps chugs with lag spikes when turning my head around. I'm thinking of upgrading to one of those fancy 6E router but I'm kinda sick of burning money to fix my headset issues for the time being. However 150-200mbps for AV1 encoding or H265 should be more than good enough. Obviously H264+ with 500mbps bitrate looks the best with least amount of artifacting but I don't want to spend 300 bucks on a 6E router to handle that right now.@@Stereo3DPlays
Why the shit am I able to run stupidly high bitrates through this older router is beyond me. It's a Sagemcom FASTFast 5566... I think the limitation becomes latency rather than bitrate at that point. Getting lagspikes at 250 on a wifi 6 router does not sound right; perhaps it's not just the wifi gen, but the quality as well that matters. If I start hitting walls with VD I'll definitely consider something better, or coax my ISP into updating their router.
Ok, VD is for real. I ran my first test today, I'm not even trying much... "Godlike" quality, 90fps (a bit above the setting where airlink starts having trouble) and played RE7 for half an hour real quick, and not one single issue. No perceivable latency AT ALL, excellent quality, solid reliable stream. This is still on Wifi 5 (ac) mind you. I am absolutely sold and did not realize getting started would be this damn smooth. Best wireless visuals for me to date. What wins me over is it ALSO has the least latency. I just wish those silly named presets could be fully customized. If they are, I will find out how to take care of those soon enough.
I haven't tried Air Link yet but I did try Steam Link and Virtual Desktop. Basically from what I understand, you need to upsample the video resolution sent to the headset by at least 40% to get around the barrel distortion and get 1:1 pixel ratio in the center of the screen. I'm not sure how high the streaming resolution goes on Air Link but on Steam Link it's pitifully low at like 1536, which is good for fast paced pvp games but really meh for the rest. Honestly just get VD, set the streaming resolution to godlike (3072x3216 per eye), set your steam vr rendering res to 100% and play any game. You'll notice right away how sharp things can be! I've got a 4080 and I can just manage fallout 4 and skyrim vr at that resolution at around 72-80~ fps
I played RE8 last year and it ran very well as well with praydog's mod. I need to get 7 since I heard it's more horror oriented.
Yeah, Steam Link is a load of ass juice. Keep in mind the stock maximum is 1344... 1536 is a value you have to set by forcing it into the config text file and it brings the entire interface to its knees. I think I've reached the cap with Airlink... it may also be a wifi 5 limit, but at 1:1 res, going at or over 90Hz seems to maker things gradually fall apart. Now that I found a consistent limit with Airlink I can finally move on to VD and see how well it beats old Airlink. I just hope it does well over wifi 5, which has been Airlink's forte over time.
Also distortion curvature normally increases pixel density in the center. I think the 40% you refer to is for the outsides of the view, not the center. The center is normally way, way above 1:1 even on low spec, depending on the curvature setting. It was actually a problem with the PiMax since it would shrink the view center so much, you'd end up squandering whatever excess resolution the device had.
Wifi 5 might be tight. I'm on a cheap Wifi 6 router (ASUS RT-AX55 about 70$) and anything above 250mbps chugs with lag spikes when turning my head around. I'm thinking of upgrading to one of those fancy 6E router but I'm kinda sick of burning money to fix my headset issues for the time being.
However 150-200mbps for AV1 encoding or H265 should be more than good enough. Obviously H264+ with 500mbps bitrate looks the best with least amount of artifacting but I don't want to spend 300 bucks on a 6E router to handle that right now.@@Stereo3DPlays
Why the shit am I able to run stupidly high bitrates through this older router is beyond me. It's a Sagemcom FASTFast 5566... I think the limitation becomes latency rather than bitrate at that point. Getting lagspikes at 250 on a wifi 6 router does not sound right; perhaps it's not just the wifi gen, but the quality as well that matters. If I start hitting walls with VD I'll definitely consider something better, or coax my ISP into updating their router.
Ok, VD is for real. I ran my first test today, I'm not even trying much... "Godlike" quality, 90fps (a bit above the setting where airlink starts having trouble) and played RE7 for half an hour real quick, and not one single issue. No perceivable latency AT ALL, excellent quality, solid reliable stream. This is still on Wifi 5 (ac) mind you. I am absolutely sold and did not realize getting started would be this damn smooth.
Best wireless visuals for me to date. What wins me over is it ALSO has the least latency. I just wish those silly named presets could be fully customized. If they are, I will find out how to take care of those soon enough.
Haha. Time to make a video about it !@@Stereo3DPlays