Haha that’s the best Pimax review I’ve ever seen.
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Yeah, Omniwhatever, one day feverish white knight for Pimax, the other day they seem to even rub him the wrong way.
On the timing: it‘s just that I can‘t recall the last time this forum was offline for longer, must be years, so I found it peculiar to see it go down at exactly this point in time. Really really weird coincidence - if it was one.
And yes, Pimax are not the only ones to play foul, sure (NVidia just having played a dirty one on the early access for journalists to the 5060 GPU which apparently sucks due to its 8 GB memory bottleneck). But that‘s always a rather lame excuse isn‘t it.
And we have see repeated patterns with so-called rogue employees, e.g. Kevin using alias accounts to attack critics, etc. etc… Pimax just have loser standards than what we in certain countries at least consider the baseline of decent behaviour, and every now and then it shows. There do not seem to be greater repercussions discouraging employees to come up & pull through with such trickery, it seems. Compliance in a company if only a lip service doesn‘t change behaviour. Consequence management does. And by that I certainly am not referring to them managing the public fallout of such f-up.
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" Unfortunately as we know pimax internal communication has been very poor in the past with the compartmental structure allowing autonomy."
To play devil’s advocate, it seems strange that a small group of rogue employees would have enough free rein and access to company money to offer such a scheme with Steam gift cards and even a visit to China, under the noses of their management?
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Well, I think we can draw our conclusions, and some will draw kinder conclusions than others…
I am not saying that I will never consider buying a Pimax headset again as a result; first of all they are not the only ones trying to buy positive reviews, although usually these efforts are aimed more at the influencers which we all know about and therefore always consider such reviews with a grain of salt.
And secondly, well… there aren’t that many producers of headsets around that I could afford the luxury of black-listing them just because they do stuff I don’t like too much. In that case I wouldn’t be able to have a Meta headset either, right. Of course there is a line which I would draw too, but my love of VR let’s me draw it with restraint.
In this case it just means I no longer feel that I can put much weight on user reviews either which is a shame. Obviously there is always the element of ‘your mileage may vary’ to it but otherwise I would have assumed that I know some of the real fanboys and all others hopefully would give unbiased views.
So it is back to thoroughly trying it out for yourself, as the most reliable option. I would like them to give a Crystal Super to Ben Lang, who I would trust, but it will not happen I guess.
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Agreed you only know by ownership so my advice is buy with payment protection like PayPal or credit card, and ensure the company has clear return policies if you need to return for a refund. Buying on a credit card also buys time before payment is due taking away the financial hit of immediately having to pay using a current account or savings.
I used Amazon to buy and return a Vive Pro 2, having confidence to try and fully prepared to keep if good. Unfortunately for HTC and Amazon it was not meant to be so I got my refund after a couple weeks and bought another Index 
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Seb has reviewed the ultrawide optical module for the Super and he is quite pleased with it. I did not expect that, given his at times obsession with having a greater binocular overlap.
Pimax Crystal Super Ultrawide – Das bisher immersivste PCVR?
Now in the light of the recent events I will not base any decisions on one review but would need to try it out myself or see a boat load of users confirm such positive impressions, but I’ll take it as a promising indication of it’s potential.
I have to admit that getting near a 140° horizontal FoV would really be right up my alley and could entice me to get me one. But I promised myself to also wait for the reveal of the Deckard (provided that happens in 2025) although it seems pretty obvious that their focus will be on completely different aspects (Deckard will not compete in terms of resolution nor FoV, but will be untethered and offer stand-alone 2D gaming, which I do not really care that much about).
The high price point makes it easier for me to remain cautious and patient here - if the Super Ultrawide had a 3 digit price tag, I would probably feel the urge to order it today…
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That’s exactly how I feel. Spending over 2k on a headset for something else to be announced 6 months later means I’ll not be investing any time soon.
The Ultra Wide FOV modules looks impressive. And widening the lenses doesn’t seem to make Seb go cross eyed to that’s a bonus.
Looks like Meta and Valve will go head to head next year for mobile gaming which means low prices and high specs.
At least we now know Pimax don’t make their own lenses and other manufacturers will have the same options next year.
I thought this year was a great one for HMDs but I can see next year being THE BIG ONE.
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AVP to get official controllers next week
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It was to be expected but still I’m happy I can soon use my PSVR2 controllers for the AVP! Yihaaa
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This is good news indeed. But the PSVR2 Controllers are quite bulky, this just shows that Apple doesn’t really care about this use case. But if they did, they would have released their own controllers, so no surprise there.
So let’s see what will eventually get ported to the AVP because I don’t expect any meaningful AVP-centric development activities of controller-based games etc…
For those who want to use the AVP with SteamVR it of course is good - but for me it still is way too expensive. So let’s wait & see what the successor of the AVP will have to offer - it needs to cost less and needs to be comfortable.
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I expect the only ports to AVP with controller support are from devs that just personally wanted their game on the AVP lol
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Sony should really just embrace VR fully. They should make a universal HMD and controller set. Sell them for a profit and make Sony No1.
It’s strange they allow third parties to buy their panels and then they grow the VR industry away from Sony.
Roll on PSVR3.
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It is due to their haphazard compartmentalized structure. Even Matthew, Dallas often had to fight with the support staff after authorizing things.
Robin even quite often at times didn’t know progress of different initiatives. Which is pretty sad that a supposed company ceo can be out of touch with a company they run.
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Well that is Normal on our old headsets as most didn’t bother with large at 160. Wearaliry demonstrated you could go up to 150 without display canting.
On another note pimax hits a snag with supply of Qled panels. So another delay in deliveries to some extent
But like you said best to wait for a variety of reviews to get a clearer picture or use the 14 day trial to check it out and return it if not good or not in the budget yet.
On the plus Mbucchia is working on a wmr fix so the Reverb and other wnr headsets will live even in W11.
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Mbucchia is the godfather of VR, no doubt
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Indeed even after retiring he can’t help not diving back in to move things forward.
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