There has been a lot of discussion and speculation on the status of the 8K and we have prepared this report to provide some official information. You should know we are going to great efforts to produce the 8K as rapidly as possible and get them delivered to your door but our new quality procedures caused some additional delays in ramping up the quantity as fast as we would like.
As a result, we have added new personnel, both improved and streamlined our procedures.
Here is a sample of the steps we have taken:
1. We now have multiple Pimax QA engineers on site at our panel supplier location who are ensuring each panel is fully compliant and properly calibrated. This has already increased the percentage of compliant parts entering our factory and impacted the number of these devices that fully pass our more stringent QA system.
2. While we have carefully crafted this new delivery schedule it does not include any spare days that would act as a buffer and to achieve this delivery plan it will require problem free execution. Because this is a device we have already delivered in quantity we believe we will indeed hit the new milestones.
3. The team will update you much more regularly on the latest progress and we are highly confident we will be get all remaining 8K backers headsets shipped before March 8th, 2019.
Thank you once again for joining us on this journey to push the envelope of VR.
What follows is an illustration of the new procedure:
Hello! I have already PM the Taobao order number to you , please check, please reply in time, thank you, anxiously waiting…
你好! 我已经把淘宝单号PM给你了，请查收，请及时回复，谢谢，焦急等待中…
So there is a strong chance I’ll have my headset by the end of April then? Not the timeline I was hoping for but at least Pimax have come clean and I have a rough date.
It can be denied, the BE editions sent to and sold by the Korean retailer were engineering tests prior to the ramp up – headsets that would not have been adequate for traditional consumers. This was explained ages ago, but there’s been a lot of turn-over in the forums and splashy headlines remain splashy.
