Ehhh, setting aside the Redditor posts, that RoadToVr impression piece isn't nearly as positive as you suggest. The only improvement they mention is that the distortion on the edges of your view are greatly improved, but then they mention new display issues are there now. Literally everything else they mention is on the negative side outside of the fact that the resolution is still noticeably better than Rift/Vive and even then they say "but maybe not as much as you'd expect if relying on a simple on-paper resolution comparison" and go on to mention the screen door effect is still very much a thing. Also this paragraph:
I've got a 1080ti as well.
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you for clarifying! They have some future proofing going on here with the highest tier model but it's good to know it's more reasonable than I expected.
Did you already forget that the original shipping date was January?
I think you misunderstand what word "bogus" means.
The issue is these extra features are not really something those big companies are wanting to focus on. The resolution per eye, expanded FOV etc are interests for them. But currently the focus is on the supply side etc. It would have to be someone like Nvidia or Intel and then it would likely be about licensing the tech. Which would be fine, but it's hard to push competition forward without items in the wild.
PC Gamer has a really positive article: http://www.pcgamer.com/i-tried-pimaxs-5k-and-8k-vr-headset-with-200-degree-field-of-view/
It's still an open question how this will all shake out.
What I know is that this:
looks seriously awesome compared to all the "standard" HMDs.
I don't understand the concern...how could extra width cause issues?
Gottit, I'm more used to the smaller Rift controllers than Vive. Hopefully the Pimax controllers and/or Knuckles work well.
I'm a bit lost where you're getting that number? That'd be 1.8x multiplier on each axis where I'm seeing 3.5x horizontal scale.
I think they are settling in 80Hz
No, they said they are creating a separate team to look into the refresh rate.
PimaxVR said:
Yes, and the result of the study may as well be that it's physcially impossible to increase it to 90Hz due to hardware limitations.
I think Alo's value is based off of the idea that you wouldn't have inherent (lens correction) supersampling on the PIMAX.
I get my Pimax news from this thread and it was tumbleweed central..!
Short of killing the FOV completely, there'll always be some SS required to match the curvature though. Also - to be fair, lens-matched rendering only needs about equivalent of HMD's native-resolution worth of pixels if implemented well, but that optimization works for all headsets - so ultimately the delta scales with display resolution, without the fudge factors.
I don't think they necessarily need smaller correction - they just use smaller values. I assume the tradeoff of lower quality at the default super sampling settings is accepted. I.e. all the WMR HMDs render at close to native panel resolution, and the reason for that is likely just MS wanting to advertise lower minimum specs.
Ok - but then in context of original post I responded to, we're the realm of arguing "utilizing" 4k TV is perfectly achievable as long as you're ok just using Xbox1-S output with it.
A valid point. I was mainly excited over the mostly lack of screen door effect causing text issues..
Perhaps there is a reason they haven't done this.
They posted a "M1 assembly" photo:
Doesn't really tell us much, but the small batch of M1 units should probably ship out soon. This is in accordance with the timeline posted in the beginning of March.
Xunshu at Pimax said:
I really think that Oculus and other "large-scale" companies aren't interested in releasing something with the form factor required for 200+° FoV with current technology. It's too "geeky" / doesn't have enough mainstream potential.
People have been raving about how awesome the lenses are in the Oculus Go
