It’s quite doable. Might not be as strong as a desktop but more portable. Good for demonstrations & portability.
When I was at Immersed in Toronto All demonstrations there save one was on VR ready laptops. Ie Asus Rog laptops & Msi.
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The fact of the matter. Laptops are intended for demonstration and not for continuous play. All games were easy, not demanding special resources laptop. But if you really need full power, the laptop will not be enough. I strongly suggest people with a laptop dont buy BP helmet, because their power will not be enough for a comfortable game.
In most cases, 90% of people not have gaming laptops, and the usual plugs for office work. What game in vr they can be discussed?
8 to 10hours of demoing is quite demanding.
I would say those gaming $2000 laptops are quite beefy enough. Very likely stronger (don’t laugh) then my i5-6500 setup. 
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“I am consulting my colleague in Germany about the configuration of her laptop, pls wait a moment.”
@Matthew.Xu what’s the update about your consultation with your colleague in Germany?
Her laptop is also a 1080 graphics card.
Damn… pretty risky to want to have a pimax 8k with a gtx 1070 laptop, wouldn’t you say @Matthew.Xu?
Please tell me whether I should keep my pledge for the pimax 8K? Would you think there’re ways to make the pimax 8k run on a 1070 laptop for more intensive games (maybe by lowering the settings)? Or should I completely forget about it? I’ll seriously consider your advice, I trust you @Matthew.Xu
But I really need your advice… please
1080p upscaled to 4k will work and I remember it being said it is an option in the PiPlay software.
If you have issues with your laptop not meeting eGPU spec for that option, ebay it and get one that does. As for Laptop/Desktop argument, yes there will be some difference but it is not like days of old. Some of the high end gaming laptops actually have desktop components in a semi portable package. Not good on battery power but more than enough to give most peoples desktops a run for their money.
Getting myself a laptop for gaming but also portability for music and work. Sick of being tied down to the one spot especially for music.
Hi Yulius,
We only have 1070 desktops, I’m sure we don’t have 1070 laptop, I’ve confirmed two days.
But our engineers tell me that if you’re the standard GTX1070 graphics card, playing the game is fine, and we’re still optimizing the headset.
If you can, can you wait until after the campaign is over, we will buy new 1070 laptop for testing.
Thank you
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Honestly I would like FCAT VR capture data from the big games on the top machines available, this is closest we can get to actual data on the performance.
Accompanied with screengrabs of graphics settings.
People saying “oh it’s great”, well I can’t really trust that now can I ?
Granted I’m like the soup nazi when it comes to FPS and stability, mostly stability.
But so many say, they run their rifts in elite with SS at 2 and say it’s great and I’m just left shaking my head.
This isn’t a demand, I’m just saying that’s what I would like to see, I’m keeping my pledge and giving you benefits of the doubt, then again I do have an i7 with 1080ti, and if I can I might build a monster rig once Volta is announced.
But for most games, like Elite and ProjectCars 2 SLI is not an option for VR.
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@Matthew.Xu “If you can, can you wait until after the campaign is over, we will buy new 1070 laptop for testing.”
That would have been too late for me to cancel my pledge, by the time I know my laptop can’t handle the pimax 8K, would it not? Your unwillingness to speculate that things would most likely work if I dial the game settings down are probably for a good reason. I trust you for that. So, I will most likely cancel my pledge if things aren’t looking up in the last few hours before the campaign ends.
But I appreciate your honesty and responsiveness compared to other pimax officials 
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My educated guess would be that if your laptop can run the game you intend to at in VR maxed out at full res with supersampling of something like 1.5 then that would be a good indicator that it would run well at medium quality settings.
We all know VR is demanding on the hardware, so I find it a bit odd to ask Pimax to make committed statement if you laptop x would run fine with game y.
After trying the above, if you are still in doubt it probably won’t run on your machine and you should either upgrade or cancel your pledge.
Just a thought.
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I can play [GTX 970 - elder i7 - 16G] Elite: Dangerous with x1.5 supersampling on Vive.
It’s a bit bigger than 2 x 1440p of P5 / P8, so, your GPU still in the ranks.
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Depending on your needs with the idea of brainwarp at 60hz base(120 perceived) should work well from my understanding. But doesn’t help at this time as BW still being developed.
I will be experimenting with an old r9 390 8gig. I am confident that with 60hz +BW that it should yeild decent results with med to hi settings.
Of course won’t know til it arrives.
If your considering dropping to 5k; the 5k & 8k share the same input res.
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I would also be very interested in seeing how the Pimax 8K works with a gtx 1070 laptop. I am considering buying a gaming laptop for use with the Pimax, and a gtx 1080 laptop costs nearly twice as much as one with gtx 1070.
As far as I can see from tests, there isn’t much difference between a laptop and desktop GTX 1070, see
http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1070-Mobile-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1070/m164129vs3609
But it would be nice to get some confirmation that Pimax 8K will actually run smoothly on a laptop with GTX 1070 and a I5 CPU.
I think a lot of us aren’t planning to spend several thousand dollars on high end gaming computers in order to use the Pimax.
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I am not asking them for a committed statement. I am asking them for confidence boosting or diminishing speculation on whether my laptop might work if some settings are adjusted, so I can make a better decision, whether or not to cancel my pledge. Afterall, they are more of an expert when it comes to VR, their hardware and probably translating data on a laptop lesser than what they are using for demoes, compared to me.
They could have told me that there are several technologies that may help to make my laptop workable, here’s a few:
- Foveated rendering because they have eye tracking
- Settings allowing us to adjust the resolution to be extrapolated (for example 1080p to 4k vs 1440p to 4k)
- Adjusting in game settings such as shadows, grass, anti-aliasing etc
- turning down supersampling to below 1.0
- We’ve got brainwarp people!!
Etc…
But, if they won’t even say that my laptop would LIKELY work if I adjust those settings, then the probabilities are that at least some of the settings above are not available, the available settings will/might be inadequate to make my laptop work or they don’t care to test and interpret their data for my laptop, none of which improves my confidence in my laptop’s ability to wield the pimax 8k.Also, they could have suggested that I get the pimax 5k instead but they didn’t. They either ignored my questions or give half assed answers. But @Matthew.Xu has been quite responsive.
But @Matthew.Xu said somewhere in the forum that 5k has better refresh rate…
One of the original laptops used was an msi one with a 1070m.
@deletedpimaxrep1 @Matthew.Xu @bacon do you still have the 1070 laptop model. Number & specs handy?
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The 5k atm does have a slightly higher stable tested refresh. With current compare between them as both are not hitting 90. It means that for now with debugging process the scaler & displays are not likely whats causing the instability.
Though the 8k is not as stable possibly due to what is causing it is before the scaler. The scaler is likely amplifying the instability in signal? Resulting in lower stability.
Ok… one other thing that’s making me suspicious is how difficult it is to have them pull out the gtx 1070 laptop that you were also aware of. Maybe testing on a gtx 1070 laptop will make the campaign look bad. I did hear from a couple of sources besides you that they were using that for demo.
Yes, it is not enough for your laptop to play in vr.