The eye tracking would cost me $2000 CANADIAN for a 2080ti and around another $1500 on computer upgrades to feed it and get similar result to Sweviver and that doesn’t include the $1500+ for an 8KX which would cost me another $1500+ delivered and is at the new backer price if I give up the stretch goals which includes a $100 US coupon for the eye tracking.
While I am sure the visuals would be markedly better than my 5K+. I don’t see sde or distortion now and my game visual are quite enjoyable enough for the investment I made.
The games that I play with a couple of exceptions run just fine and those exceptions are still playable enough that it doesn’t warrant that expense for the amount of play time they get.
While no doubt a sim like DCS would run better and look better, not $5000 better.
So, while excited for the tech advancement not so much for the cost to performance gain ratio this early on. At least for my usage.
Fair enough. If you want eye tracking though and you dont have an RTX card, then get the 2080 Super or something cheaper. Or just get the 2080 ti and sell your old card.
Well on the otherside if Pimax’s Oculus support works very good. Then it is possible that agnostic FR with EyeTracking support in game will work regardless of gpu.
In game support will trump using a driver level up conversion support. Think Filmed in 3d vs converted to 3d. Filmed is better vs converting a flat film.
That wasn’t (yet) an option, when (due to unfortunate events) I needed to buy a graphics card immediately. I have a factory-overclocked 2080, which is a little underpowered, but I’m not about to buy a 2080 Ti, when there’s a new generation coming out later this year.
I plan to buy an eye-tracker for DFR use. I’m hoping it will let me delay my GPU upgrade until the prices of the 30xx cards come down a bit.
Yep… No problems for me with my 1080ti… I mean I can’t run everything at ultra detail levels like I can with my other headsets using this card but the bump in resolution that the 8KX gives still looks way better IMHO! I would of course love to upgrade to a 2080ti but the price is still to prohibitive so for now my old 1080ti is still doing just fine. []-)
Yeah I was looking into upgrading but I lost my job to the COVID pandemic so those plans had to be put on hold. Once things stabilize I still plan to upgrade though so that I can play around with the eye tracking.
Also I gotta say, I am beyond excited about the eye tracking. Literally two weeks ago I was saying (I think on the IL2 forums) that I expected DFR to only become real once a mainstream VR HMD had it, for example Oculus or Valve. That would push eye tracking and the software support into the mainstream. But Pimax have done it at a driver level, making their high-resolution, high-FOV headsets much more usable. I was completely not expecting that and it’s a pleasant surprise.
My prediction is the software side of things will have some teething problems, same as the rest of PiTool. But that it’s stable enough to demo and make benchmarks means it’s possible to deliver, and I hope they can get it fully stable and widely compatible soon.
When something meets or goes beyond my expectations, then yes I get enthusiastic. You wouldnt?
We will provide the exact sizes for the perscription lenses upon eye tracking launch.
For DCS maybe not, but for most VR games the performance gain with DFR is basically like a GPU upgrade.
At least 2070 Super, 2080 or 1080Ti, I would say. Of course you can use a 1070 (like I do sometimes on my second laptop) but dont expect many games to run smooth on a 1070.
I gotta add, most of the time, I code the Pimax VR Experience on my 1070 laptop. Just because Im lazy and prefer to sit in the sofa rather than the office room with my desktop PC
I can’t wait to see how others like the eye tracking. I wanted to order it at the time I preordered but it said it would hold up shipping for my head set. Doh! I would love to use my eye perscription mounted in the head set.
