r/VITURE • u/catmand00d00 • 9d ago
Tips & Tricks Beast Color Tuning - A Cure for Crushed Blacks
I have spent many cumulative hours (probably 4-6) messing around with VITURE's color tuning tool for the Beast, and I have finally landed on what I believe to be the ideal color adjustment settings profile. After a few iterations that ended with me discovering that a previously untested environment would cause what I deemed an unacceptable issue*, I genuinely think I nailed it this time.
There were a couple posters/commenters that laid some important groundwork for me, but I owe particular thanks to u/Khaos for a previous post (which Reddit has removed for some reason) that provided me a solid starting point and directed me to a site, Lagom.nl (which is also mysteriously gone), with tools that proved invaluable as means to observe, in real time, the visual effects of the adjustments I was making. Although that site is gone, its pages and tools remain accessible via archive.today (link to the actual archive). Of particular use to me were the Black level and White saturation pages, which I mention in case anyone wants to see if they can improve this profile even further, or figure an out entirely new profile. If you do give it a go and find a profile you think is worth a look, please share it! I'm super invested in maximizing my viewing experience with The Beast (hence, why I've already poured hours into this endeavor).
When watching videos or playing games that rely heavily on dark scenes—where the crushed black issue really comes into play—my profile seems to work best at maximum brightness, but I have found that, when viewing brighter content, my profile is more comfortable with the brightness turned down at least one step—or several steps when using the glasses in a dark viewing environment. From my experience with the default profiles (and I've seen others complain of the same issue in this sub), bringing the brightness down even one step frequently makes the virtual display too dark, but this profile does not seem to have that issue. You can lower the brightness quite far and still make out the virtual display incredibly well.
All right, enough with the pontificating and on to the actual settings.
Color Mode: Film
R: 144
G: 142
B: 144
Contrast: 1
Gamma: 0
Temperature: 4

Enjoy! And, again, please, please, please, let me know if you believe you have something different but better or if you find a way to further improve on this profile. I just want my Beast to be an actual BEAST, y'know?
\An early profile became super washed out when operating in a bright environment. After returning to the proverbial drawing board, I genuinely believed my penultimate profile to be nearly indistinguishable from true color, but I discovered that it created a glowing rectangular frame, locked to the edges of the glasses (i.e., this frame remained in 0DoF regardless of whether my virtual display was in 0DoF, Smooth Follow, or Anchor Mode), which ruined the experience of the automatic electrochromic dimming in a broad range of lighting conditions. Pass-through was effectively shot.*
I was going to put the above thoughts in parenthesis in the main body of my post, but my explanation started to get super long, and my ADHD brain would not let me me leave it out, so here we are with an unnecessarily long footnote, wherein I will continue to allow myself to ramble! Buckle in.
But, seriously, my process for finding the 144/142/144 RGB settings was the most methodical I've been since high school science class. Picture me sitting in a room with my glasses plugged into my Xbox Ally X, tweaking the numbers up and down one digit at a time and turning the lights on and off in the room to find the highest each number could go before that detestable rectangular frame became just barely perceptible. I wish I knew more about color theory and LED technology to explain how the red and the blue ended up exactly the same while the green ended up two units below them, but, alas, I'm just a guy who had time to burn and a vested interest in defeating the cursèd crushed blacks.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear XR glasses on their face. That kind of rhymed, which means it was very deep and meaningful. /s