the Crystal Super Lighthouse faceplate doesn’t work well with EVO. The mouse stutters slightly, and tracking fails to hold its position—it keeps restarting.
Friend, I’m in the same boat as you. I’ve ruled out all the possible causes of the problem in my room, and indeed, the Lighthouse system is broken, not only in the Pimax Play Evo, but also in version 2.0.1.
Only in version 1.44.2 have I been able to get somewhat acceptable tracking; it still has occasional loss of tracking, but these seem to be random and infrequent, for half an hour. I also own a DA with the Lighthouse system, and both the faceplate and the DALH have micro-jittering issues.
This was documented before I even received the viewer; I’ve been able to verify it myself, and in a Spanish Telegram group, 50% of the viewer owners describe this problem. We’re obviously talking about leaving the viewer perfectly still, without any movement that might affect it.
I hope this changes; the Lighthouse system doesn’t have this kind of problem in other VR sytem. It was supposed to be a more sophisticated tracking system. This needs to be fixed.
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No problem here with tracking what I do find annoying is that I can’t acces the pimax menu from inside the headset using my index controllers you guys also have this problem? Maybe it’s because I have the runtime set on steam vr but with the slam faceplate I could use the pimax controllers it just seems weird that for some reason it doesn’t work with the valve index I mean on my 8kx and pitool everything worked fine maybe I’m doing something wrong?
Confirm.
Back to 1.44.1
Hi DJspyker,
Thanks for your comment. The main thing I would like to know from your case is very specific: if you are not having any tracking problems with the Crystal Super + Lighthouse faceplate, which exact version are you using?
I mean:
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Pimax Play / EVO version.
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Headset firmware version.
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Whether you are using 1.44.x or 2.0.1 / EVO.
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Whether your runtime is SteamVR or Pimax/OpenXR.
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Whether you are using Lighthouse base stations 1.0 or 2.0.
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Whether the tracking is really stable when the headset is completely still, with no micro-vibration, no drift and no position/mouse stutter.
I’m asking because in my case, with the Crystal Super + Lighthouse faceplate, tracking is clearly worse on Pimax Play 2.0.1 / EVO: I notice instability, micro-vibration and irregular behavior. When I go back to 1.44.x, tracking improves a lot and becomes much more acceptable.
So your exact configuration would be very useful. If it works well for you, it could help us understand whether the problem is related to EVO/2.0.1, firmware, SteamVR, the base stations, or a specific configuration.