At ces, According to Henderson, pimax prompted us that 100 users will be shipped the new controllers by mid April. (if thats true i would love to test them since i am sitting on nothing but a hmd right now, base station would be nice with em teehee.) I can’t help but feel like we aren’t getting anywhere, you guys where doing good with the updates and now we aren’t getting much. We all are waiting patiently and are thankful for your efforts. if i had my two cents i feel that it would be best to ship the controller / base station along with eye tracking and other modules together to get rid of the anxiousness of needing to ship out more then 2 times and the possibility of it being lost in transit or being suck. Thank you. @mozi @anon74848233 @Heliosurge
I am not sure what your preference is - are you keen on getting any of the outstanding items as soon as possible or bundled in as few deliveries as possible ?
Fact is, the different items seem to be in different stages of development/production. If you wish to see them sent in one delivery to you, I would bet you will have to wait for another 6-9 months.
If you are willing to get them delivered as available (not sure if that will be offered at no additional cost), you might get the lighthouse boxes pretty soon, while some other items may take up to 9 months…
I am afraid of one thing: we bought base stations and controllers for a 300 $ deposit. If they deliver the base stations but not the controllers, whats holding them back of raising the price if you are already using half of the order? I myself would want a clear Statement about the price before any delivery.
Yeah that is true, but we do know that atleast the base stations and eye tracking will be widely available this month, eye tracking has been ready since ces. it’d be just nice to have a little update. is doing me a stress
? Those, who added the controllers and base stations, paid for them. Fully. There cannot be any additional “price” to be paid for a part which is not yet delivered, and I haven’t seen any statement from Pimax fueling such fear.
The only additional costs you might be looking at would be additional shipping charges - but Pimax would have to tell us at the time of making the choice between one shipment and many shipments if they wished to charge us extra for several shipments due to choosing delivery of each item as soon as available. It wouldn’t even be entirely unreasonable, if we are being fair. I know, there are lots of arguments to be made in defence or against such stance, also involving the delays, but if one also for a moment considers their position, not only our position it wouldn’t be outrageous - any delay hits them harder than us, because their employees’ salaries have to be paid every month irrespective of having fulfilled all backers’ entitlements in time or not. So don’t forget that it hurts them anyhow that they have experienced such delays…
Sounds like he’s talking about pre-orders (keyword: deposit) and not Kickstarter extras.
Better not for customs