I think there is a place for this 8k vision &/or the 8kx BUT… not now.
It should be their next gen.
Pimax should have kept this well under wraps fine tuning & tweaking lens, design, everything, until they have complete kits available & have fulfilled all the promises they made for their current sets to backers & pre order customer’s.
I want to see pimax actually finish something first so i can maybe regain some trust & respect for them.
If we end up with more half baked headsets with the same sort of promises & problems all the while with backers owed their goods, this will just damage pimax’s reputation further.
@ItchyNutz
Personally i don’t think backers will see any stretch goals.
I think we will see controllers & base stations in the future some time when its convenient for pimax but will probably have to fight for refunds for the paid extras like hand tracking & 10m cables
I sure hope that is not the case! While some of the bonus items aren’t particularly important to me, there are a few that I really want, like the deluxe headstrap and the cooling fans.
I think refunding would sink the company, i think the reason they started preorders outside of the kickstarter for controllers and base stations was because they were running out of cash.
I wish they would just finish at least one type of controller so they had a full kit to sell, that might get them some traction.
The vive wand hardware is well known by now and it cant be that hard for a company that works with hardware to reshape it into the sword controllers.
Pimax have many teams.
One for Pimax 8K, One for Pimax 8K X, One for controllers, One for Pitool.
Progress are incremental. It’s more easy to make Pimax 8K+ than Pimax 8K X so the last one it’s coming later.
But i am ready to bet we will have also Pimax 5K X at a lower price with the optimizations of Pimax 8K X and the specifics of Pimax 5K+
Think at Pimax 5K X as the Third edition of Pimax 5K+ where the second Is coming now (after 16 september) and has all the improvement against cracks.
@ziddan
I meant refunds for just the hand tracking module & 10m cable as i dont think they can even deliver those things anymore.
10m cable was problematic & maybe not even possible.
who knows whats happening between pimax & leap motion anymore.
You are right about the hurricane but they could, at least, say when the next pitool and when they are going to send the base stations and controllers. I don’t think that after so long it is too much to ask.
Agreed Microsoft & Sony should not release console revisions like the Slims or different console versions with improvements. (Ie 360 should have never upgraded to Nvidia gpu chip vs there orig custom chip).
Revisions happen with tech all the time. Motherboarda & Gpus for example often have revisions vs original release.
And I’d be ok with this. You all are completely ignoring the whole point of my arguement that Pimax is overloading their own market with different headset versions and diluting their brand in doing so.
I’m not mot just sitting here saying pimax should never upgrade anything ever…
If you look this is a pattern they’ve used in the past. Ie p4k shell used for several different models. Some only available in certain regions. Pimax even said they were doing the same with the unseen original 5k.