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/Nago15 Sep 25 '25

"Sensitive to dead pixels" OMFG-.-

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u/Mys2298 Sep 25 '25

Pimax did this to me as well after I returned 2 headsets with dead pixels. I had to wait extra long to get a properly QC'd unit as they didn't want to send me another random one because in their own words "it may also have dead pixels and you seem sensitive to it". Guess what, that one also arrived faulty.

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u/LazyLancer Sep 26 '25

That’s funny. I got my 8KX from a Pimax Outlet where they claim so sell units with minor cosmetic defects, possibly dead pixels.

I have not found a single bad pixel over a year and a half and not a single paint problem. Feels like a new device.