Shipment has been delayed again. Was meant to be tomorrow, now it’s hopefully before April.
Oh that’s bad news 
I hope that they will send the headsets soon, because at this rate, the normal customers will receive theirs at summer 
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So, again with the batt´s ?
I do really hope pimax has plans for batterys for the 12K R and the current model.
Because what do you do in 4 years if they are not good in charging anymore and you can not get some from typical electronic vendors, because they did design a custom model ?
That reminds me as well as valves tyristor solutions,…
It should not be a to great problem to use a current anybody does…or design a accu pack to open and close with li-io´s via usb charge,…and make it all more “long time solutions”…
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Yes, hopefully 18650 cells are installed.
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I do use them for my fan on the Pimax ^^
Hi .Litte baguette.
Thank you Very much for this bad News !!
April?
May?
December maybe ??
In the end, since June 2022 we have been talking about the
pimax crystal release in September 2022/12k in December 2022 and still nothing received for those who pre-ordered.
I was like you and other #little baguettes at the roadshow, I talked at length with #Sweviver about Crystal and the future 12k!
He told me it would be on sale (crystal) on amazon in March 2023.
It’s March 2023 and we don’t have any helmets to deliver?
It was with his already broken promises that in August 2020 I canceled my order at 1250€ for my Pimax 8KX which never arrived.
I’m a Pimax fanboy, I’m a very optimistic person but it’s March 2023, no official delivery date, we discover by youtubers 42ppd it’s Not ready,that you need the battery for the crystal to work from now on, you have to plug it in the battery has a smartphone charger, something never explained/demonstrated at #raodshow, and what will the next news be?
In fact, we never have any 12k and crystal delivery news!
We have some beautiful images of the Crystal on Instagram, something we know from the #roadshows and that’s it!
We are like children waiting for Santa Claus on December 25 but the date of December 25 has passed!!!
We are here to all write that the pimax will have it or will it function, and that it will be kool, and that it will be amazing!
When are we going to have an official date for the marketing of these 2 helmets?
I have simulation enthusiast friends who couldn’t wait since September 2022 and have ordered VR / Varjo aero headsets.
In France we have a saying when a product is never marketed, a product that promises the moon but never arrives, we call it a:
-Arlesian.
Personally, my tiny patience is at an end.
Bye bye Crystal/12k ,maybe 2024/2025/2026 when you are optimized ?
I will continue for a very very long time to continue driving in simulation on iracing/Dcs world/Mfs 2020 on my old HP Reverb G2 and my old Pimax 5k+, which are real and not industrial ghosts.
Aplushhsss 
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The good the bad and ugly. Not bad overall but some issues like not happy with tracking performance
Oddly HL:Alyx is observed to have stuttering. Which since the Crystal is only pushing the sane per eye res as the VP2 and less res & Less FoV than the 8kX suggests the driver still needs work.
I can run HL:Alyx at Normal FoV on my 8kX on a 1080ti without issues.
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If they use curved panels ill be happy
Hi
Il can ask everything at Pimax ??
Pimax Crystal/12k release date and when I can bought this with Amazon as promise !!!
Release date ???
Release date and it’s all
Aplushhsss
“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, were a woodchuck to chuck wood?” 
The only sane answer to that is “when it’s done”
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@lolof1 This is part of a painful learning process. You will know how to take Pimax announcements in future.
Just to show you that I, as somebody who really followed Pimax quite intensively over the past few years, anticipated that this would happen - and how a Pimax spokes person responded to that:
So, after all there is not much change in the process at Pimax. At least in the old days they would have apologized after a number of attempts to fog the issues. Now at least one of their more active members prefers to use communication as shown above.
So, know your vendor, understand how they communicate and no longer expect them to adhere to standards common in the commercial world you know otherwise.
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I said this a few months ago. Pimax need to go back to the drawing board. The Crystal design is flawed and when Pimax turn the WiFi on and the XR2 is running in stand-alone mode the battery is going to drain even faster.
This is why other HMDs look compromised because there are just limits to what a stand-alone headset can do.
I can see more delays coming as Pimax try to figure how to sell a HMD with worthless Stand-alone capabilities and compromised PCVR modes.
Crystal sadly has been a car crash and I just don’t see a good outcome if Lenses are still being worked on there’s still no WiFi and the cable situation looks like there’s never going to be a satisfactory solution.
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the early adopters will have to pay the highest price.
seb said he gets to face a new version. let’s wait and see; as always
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Standalone mode would be possible and even at a much better level with moving the battery to the body of the user vs trying to cram it on the headset like majority of hmd manufacturers are determined to do so. Even having an external brainbox is not a bad idea… Though a full backpack pc is maybe extreme.
I do agree a 5000mah battery is small iiirc the size of the battery. They do need a ln insert that eliminates the need to drain battery in tethered pc mode.
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Indeed and that is true of any new products especially with things like gpus as we have often seen and are still seeing. Early adopters are effectively public beta testers.
Asus back in the 990fx motherboards for Am3+ socket motherboards. Released the Sabertooth 990fx board with an experimental pciX 3.0 mod that performed completely horrid. They made a quiet rev 2.0 of that board removing the pciX 3.0.
It is often best to wait 3 to 6 months to see how a new product fairs before diving in. However if everyone did this the product might not survive initial release.
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asus is very fond of tinkering, that’s right. gaming phones, laptops, GPUs, MB… if it works, there will be a ROG label on it and a wider price tag.
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