This could have something to do with the laptop they are running and the settings used. Just yesterday I ran bigscreen beta (in Steam) as opposed to through Oculus home, and had higher supersampling. It was like using a totally new headset.
I’d be curious what the settings were. I have heard many times that text legibility was top notch in bigscreen, so this could have been an outlier.
Awesome review!!! Another positive one for me!
I personally do not mind about the bigscreen blurryness as specially after him saying everything else was so beautiful.
The part I din’t like as much was this
“It’s still important to understand that a Kickstarter project is a not a guaranteed sale. By backing a campaign, you are betting on the success of the company. If you can’t afford to lose the money if the company fails to deliver, then you should probably wait until the hardware hits retail.”
Maybe I’m living in lalaland but I’m really really hoping Pimax delivers and I don’t lose that money.
The disclaimer about kickstarters is needed as its good advice.
While I have no doubt that PiMax will deliver. (Especially after trying the old Prototype at Immersed)
The truth is backing any kickstarter is a risk. There a few kickstarters that are funded & the backers either haven’t recieved the backed item or received the item & was not as good as advertised.
Reporting on any kickstarter should have a disclaimer on supporting kickstarters as responsible journalism.
I had several conversations with Kevin at the event.
Oh I understand and it’s been mentionned a few times… it’s just a bit scary when you think about it. It’s still quite a bit of money.
I agree as for me rent is cheaper. 
Well, I now know you don’t live in NYC!!! 
No I am a Canadian 
About an hour from Toronto
Hellsyes!
At least two months rent for me !
this thing is cheaper then rent over here HAHA…Oh wait scratching head…that’s a bad thing…
Loll omg! Thats kind of horrible
It wouldn’t raise the capacity of that single DP out, so what would the purpose be of the dual DP in? That said, it’s possible to squeeze more signal into a cable than they do (for instance, 1000baseT transmits not only on wire pairs but also pairs of pairs) but both receiver and transmitter need the same protocols, leading back to the bridge chip that limits the 8K. I wouldn’t advise something like running 8K-X with external scaler simply because that would still require double cables to the headset, where that’s far more of an annoyance than between a link box and computer.
About HDMI, it’s certainly possible to build adapters into a link box (the Vive supports either HDMI or mini DisplayPort this way). But current hardware simply doesn’t have the bitrate to fully drive the 5K/8K models, let alone 8K-X (this might change when HDMI 2.1 makes an appearance), and when they do they’ll hit the exact same limits as the DP cables. Given that the link box needs to convert the signal back and forth, it could house other functions such as a DSC uncompressor though.
As I understand it, the primary goals of the link box are 1) breakaway point, 2) cable extension, and 3) suspend control for lighthouse base stations. 3 should be replaceable with a bluetooth dongle, but talk to Valve about that. If the DP receiver/transmitter chips permit integrating DSC or similar as a side effect, that’s fine, but I think it’s reasonable not to aim at niche feature creep like scalers. For instance, in the scenario of carting the 8K-X around, I might rather go for an external GPU than an adaptor to make it fit a laptop.
The idea with 2 dp in would be to bring enough signal to the box then use that to get another 5m after the box. So 5m(dual) to box 5m (single) to headset?
Perhaps it is best not to completely forget 8k X Users 
From what i read thats a different ball game. Not sure if you could run 4 dp 2 2dp. Lol
Assuming 8k X will have 2 DP then they might need to have a box with signal boosters in order to make it work for all available headsets.
The 8k-X would likely require a more expensive box than 5k/8k model. The same would be true for wireless module. I would guess if there is a current model design it only has tge bandwidth for the 2x1440p signal; to maybe be able to do 8k-x would likely require a 2x wireless to be able to support the needed bandwidth. Again just a guess. So certain moduls skus would be needed between 5k/8k wireless & 8k-x version.
If they can implement boosters for 8k X box at a reasonable price, then other models could use the same box…and they would only have to produce the same model. But it would come down to how much the differential costs would be.
I still don’t understand what you’re getting at. One cable carries one 17Gbps signal, the box recovers and retransmits the signal. Each cable can carry that signal 5m without distorting too much to recover. The 8K X simply requires two signals which could be extended using two boxes.
Simple use 2 cables to reinforce signal 5m to box. The single cable should have enough signal to go 5m on a single cable. This would be for 5k/8k headsets. 8k-X would require something different.