Hey, yeah, it seems like it could be some kind of bug, but it's hard to know for sure without seeing what it looks like. I had someone mention before that the character's texture was off or stretching which isn't something I see on my end, but it is something someone has mentioned before. Perhaps it's a graphics card issue of some sort? Maybe updating your graphics card drivers could help? If I remember correctly you might need DX 11 or higher graphics settings for the game. I think for one of the shaders I had to turn off DX 9 capability.
On the UI, on the bottom, the green number is your frames per second or FPS. If it's below 25-30 the game will probably be a bit choppy and a bit lower quality. So that might be able to help give you an idea as well of how the game is running on your machine.
There are some things in the game that may make it look a bit lower quality. For instance, there is a tilt shift on the camera that blurs the screen edges. If you have a small resolution size that might effect what you see more. The lighting is also getting updated so some of the later levels with have lightmaps that are a bit off for now. Hopefully I'll have them all updated for the next build. The GIFs though are usually a bit lower quality than the game because of the GIF's compression. So the GIF usually has more banding and noise than the regular game. If you are playing on a big TV then the game may look more empty because the screen is so big and there is less noise and stuff going on than if the screen is smaller. A TV or certain monitors may also have darker blacks and on the early levels where it's dark it may look too dark. I changed the picture mode on my TV to Movie and that helped.
There are some VR graphics settings in the game that you can access from the PAUSE menu (OPTIONS), but there really isn't anything in game yet other than that. I'd love to get some of those in there, but it is probably a bit of a ways off at the moment. I should mention too that if you are using VR, some effects are turned off to adjust for that. For instance, edge detection or the black outlines are turned off in VR because they get really pixelated there and can increase nausea.
If you have a screenshot of what you are seeing I can try and diagnose things further.
Rob