Apologies for something of a cross-post with the Oculus forums, but they've yielded no fruit and are a bit of a madhouse of poor signal-to-noise ratio. I'm hoping that perhaps some devs here may have come across this issue and found a solution. I am a developer (engineer) actively working on a VR-enabled project, so I'm willing and capable of getting down-and-dirty (technically) to try and resolve the problem.
The short story is that I was running my DK2 with the release software (1.3.0) with no issues for a good week or so (right at the time of the official, consumer release). Then, I made the mistake of having Blender open at the same time as I was starting a VR app, which caused my display driver to crash (and system to eventually reboot) with an OpenGL error. After the restart, my DK2 display behaved very much like the low-persistence on the display had somehow gotten toggled off or corrupted; there is pronounced dark-area-ghosting-into-light-area display issues with head movement. It is most obvious and noticeable in the high-contrast parts of a view, but generally the displayed image is less sharp that it was, and I'm pretty sure this ghosting is the root cause. This is a global issue for me, not restricted to my project or any one particular application. It's not a framerate/judder issue, this happens at all times, including when hitting a steady, solid 75Hz with smooth tracking. This issue has persisted through all the subsequent runtime/SDK updates.
I've reinstalled the runtime and my graphics driver, reverted to old runtime and graphics drivers to try setting/resetting the old low-persistence cap, but nothing has resolved the issue. I was only just recently able to take my DK2 to another machine and test it there, and it exhibited the same issue. So, obviously, there is a problem with the HMD itself and not some kind of system or software issue.
Has anyone else come across this kind of issue? I'm sort of long-shot-hoping there may be a way to perhaps reset the firmware or otherwise do some lower-level diagnostics to sort it out.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or help.
