is the pimax 8k on hold because of the new upcoming gtx1180?
I donāt know. But I do know that I want a VRrig with the 1180. Gonna need it for next year games and if lucky the year after that. I donāt believe in 1080ti for high framerate for next years games/experiences.
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I think not. probably the new m2 sent to testers still have the worst issues.
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I thought about it too and my ārumorsā engine Likes to spin up on that - PiMax and NVIDIA having teamed up and releasing the 1180 and the 8K Bundeld with some VR SLI Titels along side ā¦ ahh nice to still have dreams 
If the new Oculus headset has eye tracking, itās likely weāll see more foveated rendering support. The 8k could possibly have integrated eye tracking as well, if Pimax decides to go with Adhawkās eye tracking.
no, of course not.
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No, I donāt think so.
One of the rumors of NVidiaās delay is that they are skipping a chip āgenerationā, while they wait for a glut of 1080s to be sold. (The glut was triggered by the bitcoin mining drop in value, as lots of miners left the market.) If a chip generation is being skipped, thatās probably a good thing, since weād get a larger performance increase. For me, the delay in the 1180 makes the Pimax delay a little easier to accept, since I need both for a good VR experience.
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Iām still not sure the 1180 will have enough performance boost to make it worth it. Iāll probably hold out for the ti version myself.
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Do not forget that there is an 8kx that at some point will be released and that probably would have all the connections needed to maximize any new video card and its new technology
Thatās my concern too. I have a 980Ti and Iāll probably wait for the 1180Ti as well.
I would hope they put some effort into VR SLI - nothing seems more obvious and we could and will use that HP - if developers would use it ā¦
Iāve been hearing about SLI since 2004(?) or so. If game developers havenāt implemented real support for it since, then why would they suddenly start doing so now.
Noā¦ if you want SLI you will have to wait for the engine creators to make it a āif the code finds it defaulted onā feature.
Lazy coding almost always wins over ambitious foresight.
I am a software developerā¦ this is how I knowā¦
90% or more of all VR games are made in Unity or Unreal engine. If SLI could be applied in the engines, I think devs shouldnāt need to update more than the engine version. Or maybe im just dreaming nowā¦ 
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When SLI was new (and more necessary), it had wider support, particularly when the developers and testers really needed the extra horsepower. These days, for flat monitors, a 1080Ti is a better choice than SLI, so support is waning.
Unfortunately VR will not drive anything on the GPU nor gaming market until it has reached mass market, which still may be some 5 or 10 years away. The only chance would be an almost seamless integration by NVidia which isnāt even noticed by the devs. But that has not happened, heck, even with CPUās it is still pretty unimpressive how little parallel computing has been implemented so far - clearly pointing at the fact that it is hard to do well. In the regular gaming market more CPU performance was a great ask forā¦ well, essentially, for ever since the PC & games came together. But since the introduction of multi-core CPUs in the home computing market it has been incredibly slow, and as was pointed out earlier today in another post often games will still perform best on a single fast core.
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You are right, itās a slow process I never understood. Parallel Computing is nothing new - seems game devs missed out on that one. BUT recent games start focusing on multiple CPU usages, eG. like all the work CIG is putting in their lumberyard based engine.
I hope all the power we have can be used soon and that 1180ās series gives us some rendering power for the 8k