VR Ears Kickstarter April 21st

[drowhunter]

you could probably just plug it into the pimax usb-c port

[TOOOOHKA]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vrears/vr-ears

Pledge started.
It uses 3.5 audio jacks huh. $79 for super early bird looks really attractive. If I did not purchased Deluxe MAS I would back this.

[OblibionHase]

What do we think all? Go for this or pay for dmas? Haven’t leaned towards any as of yet. Pimax 5k+ any audiophiles want to chip in on the specs?

[drowhunter]

just backed it. Not sure if I want them or not, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from Kickstarter is, back early to get the super early bird $$, and you have a month to change your mind, because they dont charge you until it closes.

[drowhunter]

so this strikes me as interesting, looks like it requires the MAS to attach officially? it seems to connect to the modular part. Can anyone confirm that the VR Ears are officially modular?
@PimaxUSA, @SweViver

the picture above seems to indicate this of course no actual picture of the MAS included on the kickstarter

[Heliosurge]

Backed it. Price is good. Be good to compare quality.

[drowhunter]

yeah thats my logic, i was expecting them to cost alot more. It cost about the same as a vive DAS.

besides i recently took the frakenquest off of my quest and back onto the pimax. reason being i take my quest around alot (well not anymore , thanks to covid) and i didn’t like showing the headset to people with the vive das attached. It’s surprising how unappealing the quest looks when you have that thing attached.

It looks ghetto and unlikely that the vr-newb that you are showing it to will want to buy it after the demo.

Anyway, if these turn out to be as good as or better than the deluxe mas then i like the clip on nature of it.

It will go much better with my quest or psvr.

[DrWilken]

Maybe they are the modules that Pimax will be using for the DMAS?

I also backed it as it might come in handy for the Quest (instead of the 3d-printed Koss KSC75 setup I have going on now) or the 8KX if they mess up the sound on the DMAS…

[Heliosurge]

Well one benefit these will have over the DMAS(no point in comparing anything but Quest to SMAS) will have benefit of DSP and amps in it’s addotional electonics.

But yeah since pimax hasn’t released any Specs on the Audio. Judging by KS price on these quite likely the same drivers minus all of the extra electronics.

[TOOOOHKA]

Super early birds are all gone just after I decided to back it lol…

[Heliosurge]

Yeah didn’t take long

[drowhunter]

ok so i asked the VR-Ears guys and got an answer

MAS Compatibility CONFIRMED?
@PimaxUSA @SweViver

[drowhunter]

if i back out you can have mine.

its only a $10 difference though

[drowhunter]

I’m hoping they smash that $100K barrier. These will be much more versatile if they can be used standalone.

[PimaxUSA]

I’m pretty sure they don’t have a MAS sample but in looking closely at the images of how it mates to the Vive Pro my guess would be the same clip can mate to the MAS. If not it would only require a small adjustment to their clip. Looks like it will probably work but can’t guarantee that.

[drowhunter]

Good to know, but isn’t it a bit presumptions of them to be claiming compatibility with pimax MAS considering they don’t have either a Cad or sample?

How far would Pimax be willing to the make sure the vr ears guys have good compatibility.

Would you be able to reach out to them and provide Cad files or a MAS sample, this would also be great advertising as they would likely show lots of pics with pimax in them.

It would make pimax seem like a product that companies actually want to work with.

[mixedrealityTV]

Tried them at CES.

CES 2020: VR Ears - Valve Index Style Headphones For Quest

Certainly not bad but audio quality was not anywhere close to Index. But probably that was a preproduction model? (These seem to haunt me… haha)