Id really like Pimax to send a review sample to RTA Motorsports (youtube channel, sim racer) to review. He got a pimax 5k and he is using the HP reverb as his daily driver.
I think he’d love the 8kx.
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I do think it makes sense in certain situations: If you must be able to play wireless, if you only play fast action games and don’t plan to play seated cockpit games, if you can’t afford an 8KX (or don’t want to spend that kind of cash), and that the SDE of the 5K+ bothers you.
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How is that a factor? The 8KX supports a higher refresh rate than the 8K+ 120hz vs 110hz
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Yes, I know. This is in the context of “if you can’t afford an 8KX (or don’t want to spend that kind of cash), and that the SDE of the 5K+ bothers you”.
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Im pretty sure the 8kx can do wireless when running in 8k+ mode.
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Has Pimax actually confirmed that yet? I’ve seen speculation, but not confirmation.
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afair kevin henderson only confimrmed @ces2020 that there are no technical roadblocks for supporting wireless when 8kx runs in scaler mode - means that it switches back to DP 1.2 or that the wireless solution can handle at least DP 1.3 (same bandwidth as 1.4)
until now i’ve not heard anything about the refresh rate, i don’t think 120Hz are confirmed, as it still in the lab …, as seen with the the 8kx in 2x4k, when bandwidth is a problem then lowering the refresh is a option to cope with it
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In my experience with the Vive Pro, when I set the HMD wirelessly you no longer go back to the cable … if it were also for 8kX … it would be a useless waste of money, even if it were possible to do so.
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depends on lot of things, mainly what you play and how long but also the area for vr can make wireless pointless when it comes to immersion breaking if you see the chaperon often
i still have a vive with tpcast and it rarely gets used, i prefer the 5k+ even with the annoyance of the cable, the added plus with the wide fov make a huge difference for me, but i play more different things and shorter sessions
there are also a lot of people focused on SDE that wireless is less important then SDE
i guess you will have no problems deciding between 8kx and 8k+ when the wireless module is available, 8kx seems to be a waste of money from your point of view then
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With wireless you have another option available to you called eyetracked fovated compression. The wireless receiver has a decoder chip in it so you can have it send a fovated compressed signal, requiring way less bandwidth that the chip on the receiver can decode. Displaylink showed this off on the vive pro eye. This was happening with the video encoder so no driver / application support needed. This could make it possible to send the “native” 8k X resolution over wireless.
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that was showcased on ces 2019 and this year this tech was not all over the place and i cant remember nvidia mention anything like a general support for this
it’s kind of parallel to the foveated rendering and only about a very small part of the small vr market
afair last year they showed no real number (live), just made claims what it could do
it would add even more to the still expansive tech of 60GHz wireless
i dont expect to see much of this in 2020
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NVidia does not need to mention this since it has 0 to do with them. It’s using displaylinks encoding software.
This after the video is rendered.
This is part of displaylink/intels wireless VR product. We do not know what vender pimax is using. There are not many of them that do wireless VR though.
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