((prelude: Dear Pimax staff. TL/DR as this will be, i recommend you read my whole opinion before cringing. For if you do so - you will have missed the point.))
“Finally”
Though, it might be more accurate to say,
“I finally got it, and I finally finished all the relevant tests I wanted to do before i made my assessment.”
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- No offense intended, but i part of me was prepared to return, and get my money back.
After all, the HP Reverb v2 boasts an LCD Martix, which i was sure would be better.
- No offense intended, but i part of me was prepared to return, and get my money back.
I know a lot about LCDs working with phones.
= So ive seen the whole line, up to sony’s 4k LCD which does quite nicely in a gear VR (post root, of course)
1st.) I took it out of the box, which was [Unremarkable], which i was fine with - im a function over aesthetic kind of person.
2nd) I installed what I needed, and fired it up - the “Pitool” installed too, but i didnt pay much attention to it.
3rd) The Field of view was disappointing in the blur… Which momentarily infurated me.
That is until I recalled my “optical physics” education. (see “telescope + physics”)
[The “long-short” of which is ]
- after testing with a shift of my glasses (pulling them to the side to look at another angle: “Ohhhh alright… I need sports glasses.”
4th) Native was way too slow for my 1060 gtx. So I slapped a Peltier Therm-electric plate/sync combo on it.
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- Ran “fine”
5th) bought a 5700xt.
- modified the bios and cooling. (technically not supposed to)
ended up with roughly “120-140%” of a 1080TI.
(depends on the app)
according to FPS in OpenGL and DX select cpu polithreaded apps. (deliberately because i pre-render all my sh**, because I dont CS go or elsewise need low latency.
Protip = set higher latency if you don’t need instant “headshots”
6th) “render quality to stock” = quite good.
- To Max = “weirdly slow” (I dont even know that this sh** does, but when a setting has a max, and is marked “quality” I… max it. but at “native”… tha fahhh…
- To Min = runs smooth, but somehow looks “sh**”
- To Medium = looks “close enough to max” but runs better at native.
((settled on medium setting + native + 100% res across the board.))
7th) Fired up Big Screen…
- Jesus God…
3 monitors at “comfy AF distance” and i can read EVERYTHING.
Nearly Cried.
In fact I did a little.
This was the one thing i needed VR to do - not so much that I needed VR for “common Desktop work”
But because i needed it to be able to do so, so that i knew it could achieve EVERY nuance in every experiment I had planned.
Which included being able to read… words.
- Watched a movie = damn.
- Played Alyx = Damn
- Vr Chat = “Can you read that over there?” -__o
(damn!) - Custom OGL render: 6 monitors at 16 bit depth.
Flawless.
((Colors needed adjusting = easy)) - Played Starcraft on a fake window in VR
Comfy and normal.
SCREEN DOOR EFFECT…
… … … The res minimizes it to where you will not care.
Youd have to squint to see it, but you will not care because its that minimal.
Promise.
It has issues, mostly with my glasses; cant see the sides easy, but as peripherie I still love it.
The FOV = Jesus F* Christ.
I look up *(yeah i can just barely see it.)
I look down (sure, ya)
Left and right…(umm…)
I said left and right?! (…)
(shifts headset, oh theres the edge)
This is the first generation of VR headset that i can truly experiment with sh** ive always wanted to.
This is Holideck V1
The first headset that could supercede every doctor’s computer monitor.
or a single inventor’s doubts.
