Finally Valve is moving forward with some tools to aid us in playing smoothly. I’m curious how this compares to ASW and how well it works. I wonder if it will work with Pimax consider their reprojection is different?
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maybe currently only works on Vive, but the doc talks about it as a generic function
(i.e. “This means that the player is still experiencing full framerate (90 Hz for the Vive and Vive Pro)…”)
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Since this is in SteamVR they are saying it should work with all steam compatible HMD’s. Can Pimax please confirm the 5k+ and 8k will work with it?
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Article says any steamvr headset including WMR, etc…
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Maybe we can have our resident testers give it a shot when they have some spare time. @SweViver @mixedrealityTV @VoodooDE what are your thoughts on this?
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I’m so hyped for this! Can’t wait to go test it!
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“Motion Smoothing is not enabled when using Oculus Rift or Windows Mixed Reality headsets with SteamVR, because their underlying display drivers use different techniques when applications miss framerate”
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considering that the other reprojections were also deactivated on Pimax, so will this one, but perhaps Pimax should ask Valve to be included.
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I’m very afraid you are correct. Pimax needs to do what they have to in order to be compatible. This frees them from having to develop “brain warp”.
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they say that its in beta steamvr? but do not say if you need to enable it or if its enabled by default? I have win10 enterprise, with a Nvidia card and am in the steamvr beta, so i should be able to see if it works on the 4k? but how to enable it?
Eno
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Great news, given the similarity with ASW it would make sense to assume it’s a kick-in kick-off feature too where consistently loosing frame make the game start to run at halfrate or lower for a while. They didn’t word it like this so I’m curious to see if they opted for a different way.
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Really awesome news, gonna try asap! 
Thanks!
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PLEASE TEST MARTIN!!
THIS CAN BE HUGE!
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What it means for you
From the player’s perspective, what was previously a game that would hitch and drop frames producing judder is now a game that constantly runs smoothly at 90 Hz. SteamVR Motion Smoothing improves upon the previously released Asynchronous Reprojection to enhance the overall experience for customers across a wide variety of VR systems. Not only can lower-end GPUs now produce smooth frames in applications that were previously too expensive, higher-end GPUs can now render at an even higher resolution increasing the fidelity of all experiences on all VR systems.
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higher-end Nvidia GPUs can now render at an even higher resolution increasing the fidelity of all experiences on all VR systems.
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If you read the article all the way through, you would know how to enable it (and yes, it’s enabled by default, at least it was for me).
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This could be what were looking for on the 4k to help ghosting. 
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here’s hoping! although if it is enabled by default, i was using the 4K last night and ghosting was still there on all the different pitool and piplay versions i tried. I will report back.
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We all at times, just want the cliff notes as it saves time skimming. 
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Oh no, i read this bit. " if you prefer to run without this feature, just look under ‘Settings > Video’ or ‘Settings > Applications’ to control when it is enabled."
But as i was using 4k last night and this was text was posted yesterday, i would of expected it to have had some impact in games, didn’t notice anything then - unless it does not work for the pimax?, Also i never got a steamvr update last night either, so maybe i don’t have it yet? who knows… i will check again when i’m home later tonight.
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