My best suggestion to boost your kickstarter to 2 million+
Invite one of the guys from Road to VR to try your final prototype @ your office in China. Pay for for their travel if you have to. It will boost sales.
Demonstrate your final prototype on GTX 1080ti. Set the Super sampling to 2.0 !!
This will help make everyone who is still unsure back the kickstarter
Update following Frontier Expo - nothing concrete I’m afraid. There were over a thousand CMDRs there and a very busy schedule, including the streamed presentations (there were others as well on a 2nd stage).
However, I got to chat to a few of the devs (and exec) and the good news is they are aware of PiMAX and the 8K, but wouldn’t be drawn on any specifics regarding a relationship or specific support. Not unexpected as Frontier are traditionally wary of over-promising anything and the best I got was that they will continue to support VR where possible (they also hardly ever talk about 3rd party relationships unless part of a coordinated PR release).
So I wouldn’t interpret that as “no support”, but code rewrites to support the HMD, if it was needed, wouldn’t be immediate i.e. they would have to be resourced and then sequenced amongst the priorities for the 2018 release schedule (a bit like the skymap texture dithering that needed enabling on the Rift a patch or two ago).
TL:DR - Frontier at least know of the PiMAX 8K, but wouldn’t say anything uncoordinated or unplanned.
There’s only one UK event happening mid October, and that is the Play Expo Manchester 2017. https://www.playexpomanchester.com/
It’s on from the 14th-15th October.
There is the Future Games Summit happening on the 31st October to 1st November, but that seems a bit late, and is more of a conference type event. https://www.nbmevents.uk/futuregamessummit/50827