At the end I think i will trust my guts on this one and go with the 5K+. Based on the reviews of @mixedrealityTV and @SweViver (thanks for those guys), the 5K+ seems more appealing to me.
It will be impossible for me to be 100% sure of my decision and will continue on doubting it. To make a clear decision, i would need to test both… But i can’t.
I do am annoyed sometimes by the SDE but it will be better than what we are used to with the Vive or even (maybe) the vive pro.
I feel like the 8K may have some potential to distance itself from the 5K+ due to the lens resolution, but is limited by its input signal. So all can be done is to improve the upscaler and this comes at a cost in my opinion (GPU Consumption). (and i dont plan on upgrading my 1080TI anytime soon)
Yes, it will be more challenging the diagonal pattern of OLED pentil display is more adapted. But you can still see SDE on the 8K… so their a room in between
But the point is you can see SDE on the pimax 4k as well & it uses a different panel rainbow RGB. The 8k is considerably less than the 5k+. If your vision is good enough to see.
Now if you want something neat for sde checkout Allegiant(sp?) Media headset with limited FoV using Dlp with no SDE reports say. But not made for vr.
Thanks for the picture. I think you gave me the motivation to try and capture a through the lens picure of SkyrimVR in my 8k with HD texture mods. If I succeed I’ll post here or somewhere as well.
though thing to swallow? we couldn;t care less wat is the number is on the headset. I liked the 8k much more! and so do many others. The latest Seoul meetup 45 % chooses 8k vs 35% 5k+ That’s because they have an onbiased opinion they are not talked into something
Not everybody has the same perception and preference as you, just respect that. You are loosing credibility this way
At my backer meetup, I can tell you that when different scenes were viewed on each headset with a lot of down time between, people waffled and had a hard time choosing or even chose the 8K until the same scenes were viewed on each with minimal downtime between, then everyone chose the 5k+, now if they just fixed the colors on the 5k+ to make them warmer! All this ‘some prefer the 8K’ ‘some prefer the 5K+’ at the meetups, I can tell you what happens, there are certain members who show up and know the 8K is more expensive and has more res, so they go into it trying to like the 8K and discredit the 5k+, we had people openly giving the 8K multiple chances and saying explicitly they WANTED to like it more but when the same scene was put on and minimized the time between putting each headset on, they all preferred the 5K. Oftentimes guys would walk away liking the 8K more because they played elite on it last for twenty minutes and never tried the same on the 5K. All this confusion on the forums is funny to read because most of the time it’s people who stick to the 8K that have only seen videos and photos but have never actually looked through the headsets. You have to trust sweviver and mrtv, as a backer that has looked through both back to back on the same scene, they were correct in choosing the 5k+ and have spent many hours in both. The 8K is just not as good, especially considering it is more $. We really need either a upscaled 8K with RGB stripe oled or even a native 8K with RGB stripe oled to be a step above the 5k+ or just a 5k+ with odyssey+ like anti-sde filter! There is a big reason the Playstation VR headset uses RGB stripe and gets away or competes with other headsets at such a low resolution, the pixel layout is no laughing matter! Even the starvr uses RGB stripe oled with less resolution than you would expect and everyone says it looks great! All future headsets with pentile panels should be trashed in my opinion in favor of RGB stripe patterns unless they all make use of the anti-sde filter that Samsung has employed than they can get away with it but even so, increasing the res on a pentile panel will still pale to a RGB stripe panel at a lower res with lower hardware requirements.
I feel people are putting too much hope on SDE filters for 5k+, they never happened for Oculus, Vive, WMR, since usually results were no good, and people dismantled Vive just for the Gear VR mod for example sor it’s not for a lack of technical knowledge, maybe it can be done but I wonder if no one ever found working filters for those HMDs, why would it be any different with 5k, and the SDE filter thing has been around since DK2 with very poor results.
Also your reasoning is solid, but there’re also people in the forum that have both HMDs for quite a few weeks already and prefer the 8k, at least they think it’s better in some ways, so it’s not so clear cut and may be a matter of personal preference, and most people I know say PSVR sucks compared to Vive or Oculus.
