so first I’d like to say sorry for all the confusing. I already did a review of the other headset Pimax sent me, but I’m still not sure what that is.
Both headsets are labeled “BE” on the package and both headsets have “Model P2” sticker.
So to be honest I’m still confused about this. However I changed my review a little bit and I recorded new pictures through the lens.
My opinion however didnt change. I’d play dark games with it, but everything else I’d prefer the 5K+ or 8K because of the much better SDE.
Also the 5K XR has ghosting (see video).
Just a question, do you even own a Vive Pro? This because you seem to implicate that the 5k+'s SDE is much better than the Vive Pro, while in fact, the difference is only very marginally.
From his videos I know that he does own a Vive pro. I figured by now though that the perception of visual quality is a strange game with displays overall (Individual preference, some like over saturated colors, less sharp more sharp, what kind of games you play) + Pimax in particular due to the massive manufacture spread differences (display revisions, face pad thickness, even power supply).
This beeing said, I feel like comparing Pimaxes is sorta wheel of fortune, probably also how SDE is percepted.
I think it’s kind of strange to say this. I don’t know why better black level and colors would just apply to horror games. I would think all games would look better. I would think it trumps SDE in every case. Looking forward to get one to see, but I find this strange. the faded-greyish black levels really bother me compared to OLED. Wouldn’t something like Skyrim just simply look better with OLED as well? If I don’t look for it, the SDE simply disappears for me. Maybe I am lucky/less picky about it.
Well, the problem is the pentile pixel arrangement that OLED screens have. The black level and contrast will be better true, but other colors will be less accurate, and the resolution of some colors will be lower. I’m actually surprised he says this would be good in Elite Dangerous, pentile screens in the past have been horrible for that game, making the orange HUD text hard to read. On Oculus Rift I had to manually edit the game’s config file to add green levels to the HUD color for it to be easily readable. Perhaps the higher resolution overall fixes it enough…
That’s appreciable to optical zoom lens but not to our eyes though, thus the 5K and 8K are on par due to many factors…you won’t really find one much better at this stage, what we need is something a full leap better, like RGB stripe oled at the 8K’s res with upsampling if they want to stay with one display port cable, and in the future no upsampling but native res on whatever high bandwidth interface is dominant at the time.
