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The Pimax 8K MEGA Thread - First Reviews Now live

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
I've been on the fence about this and have some reservations about build quality and performance under heavy load, but for me the positives outweigh the negatives and I guess many others feel the same way. Now I never backed the Rift during its Kickstarter campaign (unfortunately) but I assume the feeling is similar where you're helping to forge the future of VR in some way, or at least like to think so. I consider myself an enthusiast and not the majority, therefore what's another £600 to experience the latest  in VR. Sadly, having Samsung not release the Odyssey here in the UK left me with an itchy wallet finger, a void that needed filling and with GO not releasing until next year either I thought the Pimax 8K will scratch the itch and might just prove to be pretty good too. I'm excited for it.

There is always going to be skepticism and no doubt a number of people will suggest I am backing a paperweight but, that's ok it's fully understandable to have those feelings and that prediction is always a possibility. But... if someone doesn't take the risk and we all play it safe, how can VR move forwards - I guess we've already taken risks with past VR investments in some way or another including with the Rift. I've never claimed any loyalty to anyone having owned The Gear VR (still have that knocking around somewhere) DK2, Vive, Rift, PSVR and come next year Pimax will be added to the list. However, I am interested like many of you agreed in the poll we did here a while back that certain things were important to improve on what we have now and it seems the Pimax 8K is offering some of those things on paper. 

I think once you can look past the silly marketing name (8K) and the hammerhead shark design and focus on what's inside, this HMD offers something many claimed they would like in the past but are not prepared to trust Pimax to deliver. I think a number of people would rather wait for a more established company (like Oculus) to offer a similar experience further down the line. All very understandable. But I am impatient, and whilst I use my Rift quite often I want more of what VR can offer sooner rather than later. 

So, (and the main reason for this post) is come Feb 2018 some point in 2018 I will gladly post impressions and comparisons without hyperbole and answer questions any of you might have. That said, I expect many others at the time will post their impressions also so there should be plenty of opinions going around from various sources.


System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
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kevinw729 said:

PIMAX Room at CES 2018 - Showing Final Version and confirming Launch date.





Have confirmed it or are going to?

When is the launch date?
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When will the thread title change?
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I think you'd be mad to go for the first batch Atmos.  It's hard to wait but they might make other small improvements too.

I'm just worried that there is no news - what's going on?
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vannagirl
Consultant

Syndroid said:



Darn!!

Glad my pay grade did not allow me to impulse buy this now i did look in the last few hours.
Wait and see for these kinks to play out.
Look, man. I only need to know one thing: where they are. 

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
I think we will see some months delay before release if others also experience these same issues as R2VR. I wonder if they will still send out versions to some backers this month. I am remaining optimistic overall considering we've had plenty of mixed opinion both positive and negative and this is just one from the V5.


System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.

It's a shame that review didn't touch on general performance which is the most important thing in my view, i.e. what app was being used, what resolution the app was running at/up-scaled to, what frame rate... not just refresh rate, what hardware was driving the headset. I guess it's not surprising given that it was a Pimax controlled demo and the reviewer probably wasn't given much time, but I would have liked him to have at least stated whether Pimax had been asked those questions.


@Shadowmask72, I for one am looking forward to your review, it's at least one that I know will be unbiased.

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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
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Atmos73 said:

You might be right after reading the latest review. 

https://www.roadtovr.com/ces-2018-pimax-8k-hands-on-long-way-kinks-to-iron/




Yep, and that's the big issue.  Maybe only small things but many of them.  Niggling little issues that would utterly ruin a 3 hour gaming session to the point of it ending up not being used.

Quality over quantity (numbers) every time.
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Morgrum
Expert Trustee
The tracking issues need to be fixed before they ship.
If they dont do that then it will endup like the 4k headset being a really expensive headset to watch movies on.
WAAAGH!