Just to be fair, you should admit to being bias’d towards the HP Reverb. If you spent that amount of money, the last thing you want is someone saying something else is better. I can’t blame you, in this high tech, fast changing world, we’ve all been there. As far as the comparison pictures, I’ve never seen any that do my Pimax 5K+ justice. I always see it as the limitations of trying to take pics, don’t take it personally. We won’t actually know until the product is in the hands of the users and we have real reviews.
And yes, I guess I’m biased towards Pimax. That just the way it works.
Truth Rob is in the group that has strain issues with Pimax headsets. So it’s not that he is biased due to purchase.
Marcin does a decent job with through the lens shots. But without specialised equipment it is very difficult to get true representational pics.
Even a firm like Eurogamer with specialized EQ would have trouble providing decent pics. And of course perceptional bias will create subjective choice.
That being said you can weigh a few things in strong favor of pimax headsets:
Wide FoV with High Refresh (yes index has higher refresh; but not at increased FoV or Res)
Hi Res
Mechanical & Soft ipd offsets
Pro & Con number of settings
Biggest con? Like Reverb & Rift S design doesn’t cover as wide an audience of Tradition Headsets(with Mech ipd). Traditional Headsets with Mech ipd still seem to have a greater design compatability for wider audience usuability.
From the chair on sitting position (positioned 0.5 meter down). Shot with 30mm Macro 1:1.25 (60mm equivalent to full frame) so it really a small portion of the screen. Just like all the other macro shots ive taken with the new camera and lens.
Thanks. Its a painful process. Some shots (like the Aerofly FS2 cockpit) took me probably 2 hours until I got a decent HP shot. Still far from perfect.
Except I own or have owned most VR headsets. Bias might not be the same as preference. Also, you don’t know my financial situation to declare that because I purchased something which “cost a lot” in your eyes I therefore become more affiliated to that product.
As I said in another thread, I think Sweviver is unintentionally misrepresenting the best the reverb could be because of the windows 10 1903+ bug. I found that only running the betas of WMR for steamvr and steamvr fix the resolution bug and really make the reverb shine. You can tell he’s not running it because he says he’s running the reverb at around 200% supersampling and getting approximately native res, but the beta has 100% supersampling as native res. Not his fault, but would be nice to see how it compares to the 8K X with the reverb at its maximum potential.
Really? Wow I had no idea… Quite strange as WMR and Windows is the same company. I mean how hard can it be to fix it?
On the other hand… people complain about PiTool, while WMR is flawed by a Windows update since… is it since spring 1903 was released? Quite hilarious if u think about it…
what does ED look like with the scaler enabled in the 8kX ?
Then the input is just 2x2560*1440 right ? same amount of rendered pixels as the 5K+
A through the lens macro shot of that would be great Martin
Yeah it’s pretty sad how MS hasn’t prioritized WMR or put hardly any effort beyond basic updates to keep it working. I really don’t know why the fix is only in the beta or why they still have motion smoothing as an experimental feature either.
WMR as a whole is an experimental sandbox only. MS dont care at all. How much advertizement have they put into these products really? Basically none. And its not about the money, because thats not an issue for them. HP Reverb was released in total silence. The only hype created was made by MRTV
Okay, however Sweviver owns both a HP Reverb and a Pimax 8KX. He’s doing the best that he can, with what he’s got. Which is more than everyone else here. I appreciate a sneak peek.
Sorry if I offended you, I don’t think its a stretch to say alot of people would say $600 (or whatever the HP costs) is alot of money.
Given unlimited funds I’d get an Xtal and StarVR just to compare them…
How about you bring us some nice and sharp 4K video through the lens of your Reverb, with full field of view? I mean obviously your device seems awesome!
Why does this matter? Even if the reverb is only equal to the 8KX in terms of clarity it still has horrible FOV and no lighthouse tracking (bad WMR tracking). All this comparison with the reverb that has been done already is sufficient, we don’t really need anymore. What we need is a way to decide between the upcoming purchase of 8k+ vs 8kX, ie. 90hz? cable length extension? Comparisons between those two headsets.
Your welcome. Hellblade title screen shot would likely make a nice compare. I remember you used it before.
Likely some of the Hi Res steam enviroments would work well. Just folks need to realize these can only give an idea of potential. As one’s direct xp will be different due to any number of personal factors.
Well it’s a no-brainer except for room scale people…if pimax or sweviver can prove the cable can be extended from 5m to say 7m, that might satisfy that crowd, otherwise we might be stuck with the 8k+ which is still an upgrade over the 5k+ regardless.
