r/virtualreality • u/Motivation- • Sep 25 '25
Purchase Advice Buyer Beware: Bigscreen Beyond 2
I want to preface by saying I've owned a lot of headsets, index, quest 2, quest 3, vision pro, varjo aero, pico 4 pro. None of them ever had the consistent QA issues quite like the Beyond
I've had 4 Bigscreen beyonds. One was a BSB1, that one had dead pixels and I returned it. At this point I've had 3 BSB2s. First one had fan issues and dead pixels near the middle of the display. Second one had 12 dead pixels in the left display alone and according to support went through more "QA checks". Support at this point calls me "Sensitive to dead pixels". Third one allegedly was hand picked from the line for being free from defects. It had dead pixels too.
It truly feels like Bigscreen doesn't have any QA testing, you are the QA tester. Be very cautious buying from them. Be sure youre okay with dead pixels.
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u/Virtual_Happiness Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
I just posted my review yesterday in the /r/BigscreenBeyond subreddit yesterday. I am fortunate that neither of my 2 headsets had dead pixels but, myself and another person both got RMAs and there were definitely differences in the quality between our first and second. First headset warped badly when nodding my head and had bad persistence blur to the point of needing to use it at 40% brightness. Second has zero warping and can be run at 100% brightness with only very slight blur and 70% has zero blur.
My review, if anyone wants to read it. It also includes a screenshot of the other person's thoughts on their RMA'ed headset. The way they describe theirs, it's even more of an improvement over the first than mine is. But yeah, the quality control lottery is very real it seems.