First of all, I would like to mention that I am intensively involved with the topic of display and TV calibration, both professionally and privately. As a content creator, we always use calibrated screens so that the content always looks as it should, at least for us and in print. What consumers then set on their TVs and monitors is another matter. But then at least the source material always has the same values in terms of colors, color temperature and gamma.
A widespread phenomenon is that consumers always prefer cooler color temperatures. Display and TV manufacturers have adapted to this and the default picture mode in TVs is therefore always set much too cool. This is exactly the case with the Oculus Quest (2). If you spend all day in front of calibrated screens like I do, you will immediately notice that the Quest 2 does not reproduce natural colors. However, we should change this habit especially in the field of virtual reality. A warmer color temperature not only corresponds much more to what we perceive in reality, it is also significantly easier on our eyes. It is not without reason that opticians like to sell their glasses with blue light filters, so that the wearers can then look at their poorly adjusted TVs with these glasses without getting a headache after a few hours or falling asleep due to fatigue.
The color temperature is often calibrated to 6500K based on the pure white tone, and this standard has become established in the film and gaming industry. Normally, a white point calibration with a colorimeter would allow you to adjust the display perfectly, but this is not possible with a VR headset due to the limited adjustment options.
Fortunately, the Oculus Quest offers a "night mode" in the settings - and we want to take advantage of this tool to get much more natural colors. With night mode enabled, we get a new slider that can be adjusted from 1-100%. With the naked eye I can see that the correct color temperature should be around 60%. If you set a value in this range, it will dramatically increase the quality of videos in SLR with it. At first, the color temperature may seem far too yellowish for most users, but that's only the case because you're so used to looking at cool displays. Just watch some of your favorites in SLR with this mode and you will be amazed and your eyes will thank you.
