Anyone sticking with the 8k?

Pimax 8K Series
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According to Sweviver the 8K has better black levels, and it has more potential if we can push the SS.

I am not planning to invest in a RTX 2080 Ti so if I was sure that Pimax would release a working brainwarp within 6 months I would stick to the 8K.

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As A Pimax 4K owner, I disagree. The added smoothness of an upscaled image does create a better looking image. Also, for watching video’s of nature for instance, the smoothness of the 8K will add to the photorealism over the 5K+, which will make you notice SDE more

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Perhaps there’s a point where the super sampling brute forces the softening away.

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Your understand that this is a preference if you really smooth a image you lose details. The same argument was made about Apple itune HDR 4K compress movies vs Native 4K blu-ray disk. Some prefer one to the other but technically the 4K HDR blu-ray is better…

For example I sometime prefer lesser frame rate in movies because I find 120hz to real! it’s like viewing the make of! But technically 120hz is better

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I was relaying my experience with a similar headset as the 8K minus the big FOV. I do not experience any problems regarding smoothness and if anything it has its benefits in certain situations.

These side-by-side comparisons drown out the positive argument that the smoother image actually looks more realistic. With a VR headset you move your head constantly so the image gets swooshed over all those pixels and these side-by-side comparisons don’t show the effect of that. A still image is not a good reference for actually wearing the headset.

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You’re making things difficult now! I was already decided on changing down to the 5k+

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Thanks a lot, Pimel. I finally decided to go for the 5K+. You made me doubt that decision again…:smirk:

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If I had faith in Pimax’s BrainWarp technology I would stick with my 8K pledge… but I’ve been hearing the promise of BrainWarp since before I even purchased the 4K which was to resolve the 4K’s really annoying Ghosting issue and to this very day has not materialized and ghosting on that unit forced me to purchase the Samsung. I’m going to downgrade my pledge to the 5K+ and look to the future (probably 2 to 4 years) and upgrade to the 8K-X unless something better comes along by then.

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Sorry but I feel we Pimax 4K owners have the toughest decision to make.

I have a 1080ti and am not planning to upgrade soon. So the 8K looks like too demanding for me, but I love the SDE on the Pimax 4K and the 5K+ looks horrible in that respect but it’s the best choice for a 1080ti… cries

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I’m sticking with my 8k for less SDE.

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Edited it a bit. I don’t know if it’s likely that super sampling will get rid of softening or even reduce it. I would imagine it would add more detail though, which would in turn probably reduce softening to the point where it’s unnoticable.

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I’m half way through building my new water cooled X299 rig and had already planned to swap my 1080ti for the 2080ti (pending reviews) and as I mainly use VR for sims, will probably stick with the 8k.

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Foveat d rendering is right around the corner too

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so was BrainWarp… like 2 years ago… :grin:

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I just can say, still images are one thing - already processed by a different technical device and its lens and sensor, displayed on yet another device - and the real experience. At the Berlin meetup people had a hard time to differentiate between the two headsets. To me the main difference was the 5k+ looked like current gen sde and color wise, while the 8k was a step up in terms of sde, giving me the feeling of VR evolution. I don’t know if sharp bigger pixels are better than smooth, natural, hardly noticeable pixels … For me it’s the main selling point and why I backed the 8K in the first place.

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I’m sticking with the 8k the for the reduced SDE and hopefully as graphics cards improve super sampling will help the 8k. Plus if everyone changes to the 5k I should get my 8k straight away!!!

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Do you think that the 2080ti makes up for the current disadvantage in brightness and sharpness of the images in the 8K in comparison to the 5K+?

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Native Res of course will be better. I would be curious to see the original 4k hacked/upgraded to a bridgechip that supports 4k at 60hz. I am sure the 4k image is soften. To compare equally with the idea of 5k+ vs 8k we need an lcd qhd lcd version of the pimax be (It was oled).

If we had a 4k with a Qhd lcd panel we could compare sharpness. While the BE was Qhd the pentile oled would reduce visual quality.

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The regular 5k will likely be cheaper.

For example compare 1080 TIs. @sweviver’s 1080ti dominates with a boost clock around 2ghz. Now why would you consider buying any of the other 1080ti for inferior performance? Cost vs performance.

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Indeed depending on user preference even TruMotion 120/240 maybe prefered over native movie/program refresh. But of course technically native high monitor refresh is better.