Hi!
Do anyone else with the G2 experience noise artifacts when moving head or objects moving in your view?
It’s like vertical lines combined with noise. If I keep my head still and there are static objects in view it is clear, but as soon as I move my head or objects move in my view the lines appear. It almost looks like SDE (Screen Door Effect). Also visible in the cliff house.
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Pretty sure you’re referring to either motion reprojection artifacts or ghosting/judder, which is caused by running at anything less than the native 90hz of the G2, which you will literally always be doing in MSFS. Both of these are normal, if not necessarily desired behaviors.
Yes, I get stuttering and ghosting as I move my head around. So bad that HP exchanged my headset, only to have same issue. If I unplug the G2 from PC and reset it, the stutters diminish somewhat. But if I fly for 30 min or more and/or if I enter a dense city area, add real weather or traffic, it starts again. I also notice it’s way too sensitive. Just me breathing, the seat shaking or even my heartbeat causes the headset to move and shake way too much. It’s quite frustrating and ruins the immersion. Need a sensitivity slider or dead zone (like with TrackIR). My Q2 is way smoother but not nearly as clear.
Hopefully a fix is near.
(i7-10700, RTX3080, 32G)
Extremely interesting you say this. I’ve noticed the G2 is sensitive to my heartbeat and never said anything because I thought I’d get thrown in the looney bin. Breathing + heartbeat cause it to move more than it should.
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No I’m not talking about reprojection (it’s off and I can’t stand it - looks awful to me) and it’s not ghosting. This is pixel level noise and ultrathin lines appearing. If I slowly turn my head an inch the noise appears and if I keep my head still it’s gone after half a second.
It’s like when we had analouge television and someone passed close by with a cell phone 
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I suspect this is a hardware problem with the headset. Over at reddit it seems people talk about similar issues but not quite though.
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Same issue, it’s just our descriptions may differ. This is unacceptable to me and should be solved by HP immediately!
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Yes. It’s called ‘pixel inversion artifacting’, my Rift S developed it after 13 months of use and my G2 now has the same issue - started last week. It’s only a few months old.
It looks like vertical scanlines when you move your head and it stops when you stop moving. On the Rift S the lines are horizontal.
As far as I can tell all of the LCD panel based headsets suffer from pixel inversion artifacting to some degree.
I had my Rift S replaced under its 2 year EU warranty and the refurb replacement was worse. My G2 was absolutely perfect until just last week.
Steam released a software fix to try to solve it on the Index headsets, they call it ‘column correction’. Pimax also have a tool to try and solve it. Oculus support are actually terrible, I ended up refunding the Rift S via the store I bought it from and bought the G2. I haven’t contacted HP support yet but I have seen G2 users on Reddit who have had multiple replacement headsets all with pixel inversion to greater or lesser degrees.
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Finally at least two more people recognize this.
I felt like I was the only one…
And now even an explanation on what it is!
I’ll contact HP support and maybe I can have it replaced on warranty.
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I already had mine replaced with HP last month, only to have same issues. It wasn’t a defective headset. It must be some software issue somewhere. Mine start’s out great, then after about 10 minutes it starts to jump and stutter. My Q2 doesn’t do that, but it’s nowhere as clear. If I could only have the smoothness of the Q2 with the clarity of the G2, but I can’t wear them both at the same time lol!
I experience this as well with the Rift s
Good luck with that. I have an issue with mine and I got bounced back and forth between the replacement department and the support department, each one saying it was the others’ responsibility. Each time it took ages of waiting. Eventually I gave up. I’ll never buy HP again.
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I have the same heartbeat deal.
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Did you ever get this sorted?
Yes and no 
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I got the G2 replaced on warranty. It was working ok for like 3 months and then it started behaving like the first with vertical lines. It’s not as bad as the first one though but visible with head movements or objects moving in view.
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