This one individual actually far exceeds doc ok from my observations of some of the technical issues he’s called companies out on and his absolutely incredible technical background and ultimately love for all things AR and VR. He is world class and I bet if pimax contacted him and offered him a free hmd of the future he’d be willing to apply his expertise.
Pimax are not giving away HMDs those chosen are backers.
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While I expect that Pimax have already chosen testers (and they have said it’ll basically be well known Pimax backers), I’d certainly like to see very technical reviews of the Pimax prototype from someone who would call out issues with it.
Cross your fingers Ben from Road to Vr is getting one
I hope he isn’t.
Seriously. He acted like it was an awful product and said nothing positive about Pimax at all.
he even insulted the Pimax team because they were eating lunch by their booth.
Make him purchase one himself if he wants to review it again.
Don’t give him anything free.
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Sarcasm?
Yeah…sarcasm.
If you want a guy who is a savant like genius within this field who calls bs when the world couldn’t fathom, its Karl Guttag. What utility does sending review units strictly to backers serve us? Honestly.
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Completely disagree.
He thought of it as a bad product so he stated the glaring faults.
Staff at a convention eating in the booth is laughably unprofessional so he pointed it out.
I think we all agree that Pimax‘s presence at CES 2018 did them more harm than good and wasted a lot of money and time.
It doesn’t mean I‘d recommend him for the beta test group as he isn’t a backer but ostracizing him for doing his job is ridiculous.
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I agree with you that Pimax did not do nearly as well as they should have done at CES.
But Ben’s job isn’t to tell me what their lunch was at CES.
Also every product has pros and cons.
He acted like there were ZERO pros to the headset and that Pimax will never release a good product.
He said it was totally I inferior to the Vive Pro in pretty much every way, which I think is quite harsh given Pimax is a much smaller company.
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"Here are the steps for the closed beta:
“1.We will email our chosen testers to confirm their participation (around 10 in total, to account for availability of headsets and manageability of the program), starting this week”
If they are emailing the chosen testers “starting this week” the purpose of this thread eludes me.
He didn’t tell us what the staff had for lunch, instead he reported on what for many backers was considered the big reveal of a near final prototype. We didn’t invest into a product but a fledgling company from China, so it was important to get an impression of how they went about business in general.
He literally said ‚the Pimax “8K” has potential, but it’s still up in the air whether or not the company can sufficiently tune up the headset to please consumers who are pitting the small startup against expectations set by the top companies and headsets in the industry. There doesn’t seem to be any unproven hurdles in their way, but it’s going to take careful execution to get there.‘ in his summary.
Nowhere does he say that the Pimax8K is ‚inferior to the Vive Pro in pretty much every way‘ and given his above cited summary to his impressions at CES2018, it’s simply ludicrous to assume he‘s positioning Pimax in an unfair light to the top dogs.
Please stop defaming others whose reports don’t match your hopes and feelings.
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Whether Ben is for or against vr his potentially hyper critical response could only strengthen pimax’s efforts. Once this thing releases it won’t matter what Ben said if pimax is a really good hmd. Fulfill what what promised in the Kickstarter and everyone wins.
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All of this wanting to choose a tester is irrelevant. Pimax has already chosen and is contacting the testers they want right now.
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What, how is eating lunch by a booth at a fair something even remotely bad and how does it pertain to the product, stop being ridiculous.
In my book it is rude to eat in front of somebody who is not eating. Maybe that is a western thing? And this was CES not some Sunday Market lol
Why is it rude to eat in front of a person? If I’m hungry I’ll eat… Don’t like it? Don’t look at it!
It’s just etiquette.
Ach ach…
In japan it’s perfectly normal to slurp your noodlesoup aloud and then burp at full power… But licking a chopstick is considered rude.
I’ll eat in front of the pope if i feel like it…
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