Pimax reveals new range of VR headsets and accessories

MaskedRed · Apr 18, 2024

Those prices are highway robbery

Xzi · Apr 18, 2024

Jayro said:
You're not alone, I too don't understand this logic. "Budget-friendly" VR would be around the $99 mark if it ever wants to be taken seriously. It's a headset, not a GPU doing the rendering... It shouldn't cost the same price as a PS5 or more.

They kinda bury the lede by putting "budget-friendly" in front of "high-end." You can probably get some form of VR headset used for around that price, but you can't expect two >4K displays with wide FoV and no SDE, along with the custom lenses to accommodate them for that price. Same deal with standard displays, you can get one from Goodwill for $10, or you can get a brand new giant OLED monitor with HDR and 144Hz support for $1000+.

Even from the early bird tier of Kickstarter, my Pimax 5K was not cheap. Thankfully, it is still working great, so I'd say I've gotten plenty of value from it over the years. With that said, my 1080 Ti was just barely enough to drive it without causing motion sickness, it took a 3080 to catch up to it. For the people saying they'll need a 4090 to drive the Light here, you're probably not far off the mark. The Super will require GPUs from the future, and might even eat those up.

K3Nv2 · Apr 18, 2024

x65943 said:
$1799 gosh, that's a big ask

I'm a pleb who's only used the oculus headsets, is the price of something like this worth it?

Edit: so after some more research this thing has significantly better resolution than a lot of other products on the market, BUT you are gonna need a really beefy PC to make that useful (which makes sense)

I'll say definitely not when the quest 3 is about $600. It's just one of those that claim premium when you don't really need all the premium stuff. The only people that say not to buy quest though has a huge hatred for Facebook. Never made sense to me when the person controls their account. I digress. Psvr2 is even around $550 but of course you need a ps5 making it around $1200 after tax. You'd probably be happy with a pair of xreals and a phone but the sunglass type vr/ar isn't as immersive only down side really.

elm · Apr 19, 2024

Halbour said:
Never had A VR headset... So I have no idea what are you guys talking about

Try a Quest 3 or a PSVR for the PS4, those are good headsets (in my experience) with a great library of games

UltraHurricane · Apr 23, 2024

K3Nv2 said:
I'll say definitely not when the quest 3 is about $600. It's just one of those that claim premium when you don't really need all the premium stuff. The only people that say not to buy quest though has a huge hatred for Facebook. Never made sense to me when the person controls their account. I digress. Psvr2 is even around $550 but of course you need a ps5 making it around $1200 after tax. You'd probably be happy with a pair of xreals and a phone but the sunglass type vr/ar isn't as immersive only down side really.

not to mention using your phone as a VR headset is incredibly limiting since it doesn't have as smooth tracking or the 6DoF that dedicated headsets have

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