Right… That’s why Twack3r said that it is lowering the resolution. Nevertheless, I am still curious how it will perform on the Pimax and right now, is the right time, since pimax and tpcast are essentially neighbors.
By the way, Vive’s wireless solution needs a PCIe card and that makes the TPCAST better for laptops: “The Vive Wireless Adaptor enables VR users to easily convert an existing HTC Vive headset and the upcoming Vive Pro into a wireless solution simply by replacing the existing cable to the headset with the HTC Vive Wireless Adaptor and adding a wireless card into the PC.”
where do you see PCI-E needed? It could be using a usb wifi router like the new tpcast plus uses (this is just for all the data and not transmitting of the screen data).
That’s the link @peteo it says it there.
here’s the quote: “The Vive Wireless Adaptor enables VR users to easily convert an existing HTC Vive headset and the upcoming Vive Pro into a wireless solution simply by replacing the existing cable to the headset with the HTC Vive Wireless Adaptor and adding a wireless card into the PC”
Sure… but rather than just doing more demos in CES, when so many reviews about it have already been published all over the internet with roughly the same praises and complaints, why not make use of the opportunity in CES to show the world that perhaps there is already a wireless solution able to drive the kind of resolution the headset provides? Could it hurt? Probably not. Could it be beneficial? Doh…
You only need one headset… ONE! To connect to the tpcast 2.0. Heck, connect it to either the 5k or 8k, it doesn’t matter. And have the other headsets for demos. If it doesn’t work with tpcast, then tough luck, try again next time, at most, it’ll waste 2 hours, setting it up and disassembling it again. So… could it hurt? NO! Could it be beneficial?.. YES!
But whatever man… it’s already over, the opportunity is lost…
You would be absolutely right if the Pimax 8K had no problems and if TPCast could already give a 2 x 2.5K resolution to be upscaled to 2 x 4K, but that was not the case.
Ok, I have no idea about it has to be a certain type of resolution. Correct me if I am wrong, I thought that it is all about the bandwidth only. So, if tpcast claims it can handle 8k headsets (which theoretically should be 7680x4320), it should have no problem handling 3840x2160x2 or 2560x1440x2, right?
And they don’t have to team up if tpcast sucks as a company. As long as the wireless works with the headset, it can benefit pimax too. Would it not? Besides, TPCAST does not need pimax’s permission to build a solution for pimax in the future anyway.
Sure… But it doesn’t hurt to try it out. Theoretically the wirelessHD tech is able to support pimax 8k’s bandwidth right now. If they say that it is not yet ready, then try again in a few months time. It won’t hurt asking.
Am I missing something? Tpcast has no need to hand over any of their secrets to pimax for whatever reason. They just need to prove their words that their wireless solution can work on 8K hmds. This could benefit them. And pimax has to be smart enough to take that opportunity, which is gone right now.
These things simply aren’t done spur of the moment like that.
If it’s going to happen at all, it will be behind closed doors where neither company risks losing face.
Too many people here don’t have a clue about business in tech.
While also doing a show? I doubt either of the companies would want to juggle all that at the same time. It’s just not sensible.
There’s a time and a place for things like this and it’s not during CES with a limited crew and limited time and no planning and no dedicated setups or proper testing environment.
Also, there is NOTHING to suggest that they can never schedule a proper way of testing the two products together in the future so I don’t know why some of you are treating this like it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I’ve never done a show this big, but I have helped my dad with his stalls at IT markets years ago, and let me tell you it’s hard enough finding a quiet moment where you can go to the toilet without a customer asking you something. Multiply that by about a hundred and you’ve got the CES exhibitor’s experience.
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way”
Here are some of the things than can be taken advantage of to make that way possible:
CES is not 24 hours everyday
It doesn’t have to be done on the CES location
Pimax has more than 1 employee who can take care of stuff like this (mobile phones might help make things easier)
Pimax has more than 1 headset on location
Asking first wouldn’t hurt, so if tpcast says it is not yet possible, then try again next time, no time wasted
One more thing, a great opportunity forgone, is a great opportunity forgone. Whether another opportunity comes by later or not doesn’t matter. Grab every damn opportunity out there is the ideal way to do things, especially if that opportunity is a great one.
If there is a will then there is a way to do it at a more sensible time.
People need to rest, exhibiting at a show like this is NOT A HOLIDAY. They also need to focus on their own booth to make sure it’s all ready to go the next day. It’s possible that they have to pack/unpack and move everything before and after every showday and can’t just leave it out over night.
Agreed: It doesn’t have to be done on the CES location, or at the CES time.
Pimax probably sent the exact amount of people to CES as they need to run the booth, if they didn’t need one, they wouldn’t have sent that one at all (also, the staff on the floor are probably marketing/support staff).
Hauling around their HMDs and demo computers (which are probably supposed to be locked up) to random places and installing experimental drivers and stuff on them is probably one of the last things they would want to do in their little free time after the show every day. Their demo setups are not something they want to mess around with, they need it working the next day.
They would need permission from higher-ups to do this, time-differences make this annoying and slow, and there is already so much else to do.
Other stuff that takes too long to type up and gets more and more speculative… I don’t want to argue anyway, there’s literally no use, what’s done, is done (or; what isn’t, isn’t).
Yes, they could have jumped all of these hurdles and others, if they really wanted to. But why? Why not just do it at a more opportune time? I mean it sure seems like they didn’t do all that stuff, so I guess history is in my favour?
Also one more thing, the ‘greatness’ of this opportunity is debatable to say the least, in my opinion it would have been a bad opportunity, or ‘a good opportunity to do a thing badly’.
A ‘great’ opportunity, to me, would mean when both companies have an established interest in working with the other, have been in contact and are free and ready to continue to the next steps. Probably some time AFTER Pimax have solved most of the quirks of their own HMD and probably not during a big milestone like a huge consumer exhibition (I don’t even know the state of the TPCast thing, maybe they still have some things to iron out too).
