It should do fine if it is marketed well. Which has been pimax’s issue is poor marketing. If they can get this into box stores or better something like Gamestop.
Portal as a Standalone VR is more likely than having a standalone mode for Crystal and 12k with the underpowered XR2 chip. These hmds will imho have an extremely dumbed down graphics to work in that mode.
If the Portal which is originally a Qualcomm project has strong marketing it will be a great option for those wanting an entry vr hmd that is not limited to only ar/vr like the Quest and Pico are.
It’s a matter of how many baskets and eggs they have as well as the hands to shuffle them.
I have nothing against the Portal product. However, without knowing their TRUE constraints regarding resources and supply chain, manpower(personpower! OMG SHOOT ME…) etc etc. I will always lean more towards KISS and not go Roman Empire and over-expand.
From my viewpoint, I get small signs that they’re going more towards biting off more than they can chew.
Personal bias. I don’t want innovation and production of VR products to potentially suffer at the cost of the Portal Product-line.
They always do. Qualcomm’s original reveal had stated they figured to release towards q3/q4 for there “Switch” inspired device. As that never happened it looks like Qualcomm shifted it to pimax.
The greatest weakness pimax has had is announced timelines and failure to update when it is known it will not finish ontime. The other being marketing. Majority of Portal R&D would have been pretty intensive prior to handing/partnering with Pimax branding it Portal.
A lot of the proposed addons pimax needn’t be the sole supplier of. But will they be smarter on this? Difficult to say with there failure of Opensourcing Pitool interface. We could have had a very nice Pimax software interface… Instead we only had a closed source cool interface developed by Marcin. Which has had the development shelved indefinitely.
Hehe he kinda did. I can’t blame him. It’s really Pimax themselves almost continually doing stupid things, like doing a roadshow with a halfbaked product. What you do expect him to say? Really. I feel he’s actually quite fair in all of his video’s.
Well, the suggestion about Qualcom’s minimum order policy could be a contributing factor to the existence of Portal… :7
Kind of got to hand it to Pimax, any way, for catering to the lower end, at a moment where everybody, including Pimax themselves, and the previously loss-leader-aggressive Meta, seem to choose to hanker through the combination of a narrow supply line, and the trough of disillusionment, by focussing on more expensive headsets for die hard users. :7
Hmm that’s actually a tough question, which headset would you have recommended a month ago… I would never ever recommend a Pimax to anyone for various reasons. The index does a lot of things very very well, but the resolution just feels outdated. But it’s difficult to recommend a headset, so many downsides to most of the headsets out there.
It’s just a very bad way of doing business, catering both the very low and the very high end. It’s really bad for various reasons. There’s a reason why Apple for example is so successful and doesn’t make low-end stuff.
