So no progress on the stand-alone functionality, wireless etc. being demoed?We are at the end of March now, this would mean 6 months after they „launched“ the Crystal there wasn‘t all that much visible progress, was there?
The only thing I can think of from the top of my head are the spacers they added to hopefully remove the weird „prescription lens“ effect on the lenses, but else?
Apple is allegedly going to present its headset on 5-9 June, so it will be interesting what we will be thinking of the Crystal once the Apple specs are known. Although that headset won‘t be compatible with SteamVR etc., it will likely set the scene for the next generation of headsets and many manufacturers will try to get their hands on it and scrutinize or even reverse engineer some of the solutions Apple implemented - so we can hope that some of the Apple‘s headsets goodies will trickle down to the SteamVR compatible headsets.
I haven’t been following any news on the apple headset but if that is the case then that’s a non-starter already for me. Not that I’ve ever been a user of apple products anyway.
That’s a shame really, I personally love my Apple products.
We don’t know if the rumoured Apple HMD will be macOS or Windows compatible; I consider the former more likely than the latter but Apple has previously developed a sw stack that allowed for SteamVR hw (OG Vive) to run on macOS.
It is also rumoured that energy and compute are tethered to the HMD, rather than built into the HMD itself. This could allow for any other compute and energy delivery ressource to be compatible.
If Apple do in fact present something it will be a technological benchmark that every other hw vendor will have to consider because their customers do.
The biggest point for me is not the news Apple are announcing a headset it’s the reality 4k OLEDs are going into mass production this year. For me it’s opening Pandora’s box. Because Index2 is rumoured to be using these very same panels!
All that’s rumbling about at Valve is that they are now looking for software developers for the system. Do you seriously think they’ll be finished in a few months? xD
I’m also starting to think the Deckard might release this year. Of course, nothing in stone, could as well be next year. But we’ll see. At least we’ve now confirmed that they’re working on eye tracking for a new Valve headset.
Christian Villwock, a director at SMI, said: “This demo is the result of the experience and the valuable learnings we have accumulated during our relationship with Valve, a company that had the foresight to see the value of eye tracking at an early stage.”
I’m not 100% positive but afaik, functional foveated rendering like on an Aero or VR-3 via OpenXR Toolkit (only way I know to reliably use a very powerful feature) requires an Nvidia RTX card as a hard limit.
If so, the FoveVR guys were so far ahead of everyone else that they paid the price. There was no somewhat universal solution for their approach on the customer side.
Edit:
Just read the most recent Pimax blog update re eye tracking.
Research has shown that this delay cannot exceed [20 ms]before it becomes perceptible to the user. We use eye tracking in the Pimax Crystal VR headset to address this problem, hoping to allow changes in the visual field to be controlled by eye movements instead of head movements.
OK, now I can see you back-pedaling really hard. Good for you !
Though you can say all those “I am friendly with Chinese” all you want, people here can easily see your previous posts and judge that by their own. Of course I suppose the discussion like that ends right there. No need to expand it any more.
So, Pimax pushed an update, declaring wireless, stand-alone to be working, while eye-tracking allegeldy works but IPD not yet (may come in one month, or not). Will be curious to see the first reliable hands-ons from 3rd parties to understand if „it works“ in Pimax lingo means the same as „it works“ in my expectation.
I hope they will send Seb a true production version one day, so I could test it and see for myself.
@Heliosurge I agree- the translation software he’s using seems to have trouble with complex ideas and subtexts. I wouldn’t judge anyone based on posts made thusly in a language foreign to his or her birth.
We need to cut non native English speakers a bit slack here. Goodness knows I need it when working in my second language.
Mais sur le fait que la chine a un retard technologique avce les usa est bien réel,ils arrivent à le combler petit à petit .
Et je n’ai de préférence pour aucun pays de cette petite planète bleu.
Merci a ceux qui ont compris mes propos et pour les autres bah désoler si vous etes des moutons qui saute sur des rumeurs diffamattoire.
Depuis 20ans le net deviens lamentable sur cela .
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In english by Google traduction
they did not understand my explanations
But the fact that China has a technological delay with the USA is very real, they manage to fill it little by little.
And I have no preference for any country on this little blue planet.
Thank you to those who understood my words and for the others, sorry if you are sheep who jump on defamatory rumors.
For 20 years the net has become lamentable on this.
I speak a little casual French, but I’m very rusty with that language, as I haven’t lived in France for a while and no longer use the language.
Based on my experience though, Japanese (language I’m very often speaking), has many many more gaps in meaning when comparing it English <> Japanese as compared to English <> French.
At least with French, besides the masculine/feminine (and odd rules why some words are masculine even then ending in letter ‘e’) the grammatical subject/object is basically the same. With Japanese it’s all flipped and many words are left out with assumption of culture and context of conversation already being automatically known. It’s much more difficult than French IMO.
If I lived in France as long as I lived in Japan, I’m pretty sure I could become VERY fluent in French as compared to Japanese.
Let’s not even get into the ON/KUN meanings of Kanji and the multiple combined writing styles of Japanese. It makes the ‘accent’ marks on letters in French look simple.
In my opinion , if we all could use english, it would be nice to understand, for more of us.
I also did this before, writing something german, but not that much.
If the all got a crystal radio will go silent
I cant wait for the first user reviews !
Heads up folks, the Beta testers payments have finally been opened up, so seems like beta testers will have the crystal soon so hopefully that means general consumers are shortly after.
