Pimax 8K

48 hours to decide; I own a DK2, can this be my next HMD?

kickstarter.com/projects/pimax8kvr/pimax-the-worlds-first-8k-vr-headset

what VR content is even good besides sweaty brazzers porn

OP here, I use it for simracing (iRacing), every day use

It just upscales to 8K. True 8K will bring the most powerful of consumer PC's to their knees. Also. No Lightfield.

Everyone is saying that this thing is incomparable the the other headsets.
But I don't know how you plan to push 8K picture to that thing.

OP here, actually the 200° fov is my best selling point, in simracing can be game changer. I tried a CV1 twice and it isn't a real upgrade from mine (it's clearer, but the fov is similar). I am planning to get a 1080 soon, they said it will use 2x Display Port.

Waste of time and money. VR is dead until 24k per eye, read impossible for the next 10 years.

I'm laughing at everyone who sent even a dollar to this.

Vive owner here, completely disagree but to each his own.

a fool and his money are soon parted

that's not even the point of 8k

the point is to make pixels smaller so it's harder to distinguish them when a lens is projecting them onto your retina from a couple inches away

1080p upscaled to 8k would still look drastically better than a 1080p display

not that guy, but how exactly would that work?

i understand that high pixel density will automatically result in higher pixel fill, but wouldn't a 1080p screen with high pixel fill look exactly the same?

dude we've been playing low resolution video games for decades, being able to see the pixels is only a dealbreaker for autistic cunts.

because you can still see the RGB subpixels if they're big enough

make the pixels physically smaller, and the effect is less pronounced

I have heard that the screens are shit tier and blur blacks a fuckton. Then again that guy was a oculus fanboy so i dont know.

ah neat-o.

they're still chinkshit devices that have their own problems, though

lenses a shit

The entire point of VR is to make you feel as if you're inside the game.

Sure, I still play Mario Kart DS sometimes, which looks more or less like your webm. That doesn't meant I would play Mario Kart DS in VR, because it would defeat the entire purpose of VR.

Honestly, this is the beginning of good VR. I would buy it if I had the time available to justify spending $800 or however much it is purely for gaming (since virtual desktops are still not a usable thing).

I'll probably get into VR in maybe 2-3 years, when true 8k will be achievable with a $400 GPU and a $250 headset.

Don't fall for the pimax meme.
The Pimax 4k is the worst of all HMD's out there. Why would you think the 8k will be any good?
The display resolution is the only point for pimax, anything else is dogshit. You'll stop noticing the grid on lower res HMDs quickly, it doesn't make that much of a difference.
The Vive is still the best HMD rn because of the superior lighthouse tracking and huge software pool in steam.
Roomscale movement and hand tracking just works really good.
The Windows mixed reality ones were promising but the lighthouse beats the inside out tracking of windows mr. Theres also currently no steam support and who knows how that'll turn out.
If you just want a monitor strapped on your face without handtracking/roomscale then go for the pimax but thats not really vr.

>wow it's like I'm inside this PSX graphics game

Mission accomplished, then.

>wow it's like I'm inside this PSX graphics game
Fair enough, this may be appealing. But even then, it will ONLY work if the resolution and refresh rate are good enough.

You can wank over your nostalgic low-poly environments at will. But if you want to "feel like you're inside this PSX graphics game", you need to have VR-tier resolution.

>Although Pimax calls their headsets “8K” and “5K”, they actually respectively feature dual 3,840 × 2,160 LCD panels and dual 2,560 × 1,440 LCD panels.

>the 5k has literally the same resolution as my GearVR

2x4k screens < 1 8k screen
Chinks are out to chink ya.

>The Vive is still the best HMD rn because of the superior lighthouse tracking and huge software pool in steam.
Pimax 8k supports lighthouse tracking out of the box

>If you just want a monitor strapped on your face without handtracking/roomscale then go for the pimax but thats not really vr.
And this is what happens when you try to shit on something without having a clue about it.

you can do something similar to entering old games in vr with the desktop applications. you can launch a ps1 emulator and then zoom in to the screen so it wraps around you. i did this with breath of the wild too which was fine except...

you would think the problem would be that ps1 game looks like shit but if you dont turn supersampling on super high then you get a blurry mess of a picture on top of seeing inbetween the pixels. it looks like utter dogshit.

The problem with vr is the quality of the lenses. if i could play ps1 games in my headset with the theatre setting i totally would but the fidelity of the picture that my occulus puts out isnt worth the effort. Its not just autistic it just looks shitty.