Someone “eventually” will, sure. But Pimax doesn’t want to clue in their competitors with exactly how to make a knockoff VR headset, how to fix all the issues they’ve had to work out, until theirs is already fully available to the public.
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Well no offence to Pimax but if people are going to study competitors, I highly doubt they’d choose pimax to study. Instead StarVR seems a much more interesting study object. I also highly doubt there’s something specific to the panels that the competitors don’t know about and could give them somehow an advantage.
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I’d expect all the competitors to be part of the very early backers, they may already have their unit in hands to inspect it.
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I wonder what happend to the “very specific” display implementation they had especially for the 8k - wasnt it supposed to be quicker in response time and all that? I guess the scaler eats that benifit. damn - its a hard choice but i guess i will go with the traditional 5k+ panel instead of the backed 8k…(but still not 100% sure). I guess if the go for a new model, then I might jump up to the 8kx or what ever it will be called then. Or more likley Google will have the 16k running…
Edit: It was something like clplcd or the like, cant find it quickly now…
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Custom low persistence lcd. Basically tells us nothing but a fancy name, it means there should be no ghosting since the pixels are able to turn off and on fast. It’s somewhat related but not the same thing as the latency of the display.
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Your thinking big competitor Yes but maybe they could have competition from small and cheap integrators trying to recopy something from Pimax into their designs to make a cheapo 5K+
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Indeed even a 4096*1200 at 140 horizontal FoV headset would be a good cheaper option that would satisfy alot of folks.