So nothing like what some old rear projection TVs had where you would align 2 crosses to have one then
Hello, I barely come here due to being busy, but I noticed you may be considering the StarVR One? I currently have one and have used it for some development. I think I was the first here on the forum with the released units.
The headset is quite good and would have been great in 2018-19, but unfortunately, it is outdated now. It didn’t help that most everyone here had faulty units (first batch) which suffered from Mura. Even when with the Mura gone, I would not recommend the headset for gaming purposes. We are moving into the generation of high resolution headsets, and the StarVR One is severely outdated on that department.
FOV, while it is true that the Star VR One does have wider distortion free FOV that the Xtal, 8k X, the difference is not as drastic as you may expect. The Vertical FOV especially on the lower side of the FOV by the cheek/nose area still not great, and there still a little black edges on the far periphery.
Here is the problem as a whole. It is great if you want to build VR content for wide FOV, but not really for gaming, because the reality is that the clarity of other headsets will out do any benefit that the wider FOV of the StarVR One offer. Partly because your eyesight will get tired and will ask for more resolution resolve, which is something it can not provide. A Reverb G2, Varjo Aero, Vive 2 will provide more limited FOV but the image clarity will be more soothing to your eye sight.
My two cents
Cheers
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Ok no not like that, I used to converge the old CRT projectors back in the day, crosshatch, dot matrix and such. This just callibration simply moved the image on the panel without moving the lens.
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When i first got my 8kx i purposefully tried to look for the distorsion and found it. It was nowhere near as bad as i thought it was gonna be and nowadays now that i dont look for it, i dont see it. I’m hoping that’ll be the same with the Aero.
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Agreed, to me is never a problem. It must be for the super sensitive of specific IPD’s of head shapes
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XTAL 3 is noticeably lighter than their 8K version, i noticed somebody commented about the weight.
On eye strain I used it for a long session with no problems in multiple programs. Biggest drawbacks were low refresh (just 75hz max) and the short vertical fov. Optically it was great and the resolution is great. It’s still an LCD display with a standard fully illuminated backlight so it has the issues that go with that.
IMHO it’s great for it’s primary use in simulators and that type of thing. I’m not sure general gaming would be a forte.
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Isamu already owns the StarVR One. He bought it from me a long time ago.
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ah gotcha. Then for anyone interested, this is my current view
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I had contacted them,and this is there answer:
At the current time we are developing just optical technology for wide FoV VR and not planning final headset. Our biz.model is to license the technology to Companies doing headsets. If we decide to make Crowdfunding will keep you posted, Thanks, Arthur
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That is what I thought from there right up as well licensing or supplying lens tech.
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I for example I dont see distortion in certain games .
Only in Alyx I see distortion on the Aero for some reason.
The Aero is brighter and ligher then Vr3
Its a keeper for the next 2 years 
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Amaizing device and affordable.
xtal 3 is way too expensive for what it delivers . No 90hz in native resolution oO
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Do you remember the fov numbers of the upcoming Pimax 12k Qled ? ?
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Is not to expensive for the targeted customer group, was never designed for home gameplay.
This is more intended for professional applications, science and development.
And stable 90Hz resolution is outside of the Displayport norm. Maybe with the next GPU Generation. Pimax 90Hz are only experimentel.
For 12k, from 150x135 - up to to 200x135
Will Pimax 12K gonna get 90Hz?
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I believe it was in the Frontier Presentation. With having the onboard Qualcomm XR processor should be doable.
We just have to wait on progress reports when available. Iirc it has been said potentially even higher refresh rates than 90hz.
@PimaxUSA can likely post a quick summary; if not mistaken he or @PimaxQuorra may have already posted one just after the Frontier Event.
Just keep in mind both gentlemen have been fairly busy with projects
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Update. After emailing XTAL about my eye strain issue with the 5K, they offered me a trade up to the 8K at no charge, yes I’ll take it !
So Im boxing up the 5K and sending it back, when they receive the 5K they will ship out the 8K unit. Hoping the new style lenses in the 8K will have minimal eye strain!!
Anybody know the best (cheapest) way to ship International from the USA??
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Awesome stuff congrats! Is it the V3 8k?
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No the old school V2. The V3 hasnt been released just yet, only preorder
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Cool still an awesome upgrade. Be interesting to hear if they had resolved much of the issues that might solvable that were observed a couple of years ago at CES.
The v2 8k that still has oled?
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Yes I was stoked when they offered up that deal!
The lenses have been overhauled from the 5K to the 8K unit. The 5K has a terrible sweet spot (edge to edge clarity), It was worse than the G2. If I didnt have eye strain I would have still sent it back because of that issue.
Milan at XTAL said the 8K lenses have fixed this and the reviewers says the 8K (V2) has edge to edge clarity, we will see…
On another note, there were a few prototypes of the 5K, the one at CES that Sweviver, VooDoo and MRTV was reviewing was the latest 5K which had “fixed” some of the earlier issues, distortions, low vertical FOV, still low but not as bad as the Vive Pro 2.
The 8K V2 has LCD panels.
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