okay i ordered one,let see how it goes…
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It’s here:
I caved and just ordered the cable. Will review it on my channel once it arrives. I’m hoping the extra 1.5m will be enough length for attaching it to my ceiling cable management system.
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Now it’s back in stock, can you confirm my order EO1275 from when it was on sale on the website two weeks ago briefly will go through? I don’t want it to be missed …
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This page is not available for me…
I k ow where to find the cable. I was asking about the statement to get this cable for free if you buy a 8kx.
I am asking about this one. Where does this information come from? I do not find anything about it. I am just asking about the evidence of it
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I did see the ad; however think it was a Black Friday deal
I guess so. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense in my opinion.
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Well imho with the new cable it should be made the standard cable if it lives up to quality and durability.
If it can be used an upgraded cable should be made and sold for early headsets. Who knows it might even help the og 8k reach 90hz if made and released.
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With DisplayPort 1.4 we are looking at 8.1 Gbps transfer rate (4 GHz carrier) and with USB 3.0 at 5 Gbps (2.5 GHz carrier) on “speed lanes” (i.e. the wired twisted pairs). This would not make much sense to make ones optical and the others not (though Pimax probably would be capable of that).
I would expect that all data are run through the fiber optics and only the power is delivered via the metalic.
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I guess the question may be whether there are off-the-shelf chips for the terminal points, which will multiplex the video-, and USB data into a common stream (EDIT: …as well as do all the buffering and driving for both). Otherwise we’d look at parallel fibres (which would be light and cheap enough, but…), with separate dongles for the video and data, at either end, which could presumbably be both costly and bulky… :7
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That would make sense, but as @jojon says that would require such a chip to already exist (I have no idea if that’s the case).
I wonder how the Oculus Link cables work? I would think it’s like I suggested (DP via fiber, USB/power via copper), but of course I don’t know… 
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I would expect that transforming N twisted pairs (where N is a small natural number) into a fiber is a well known task and the only question is what is N. So they might need to run two fibers instead of one, and two wire-to-optics bridges instead of one (if the one bridge is limited to 4 ports - as in DP for example). But maybe this is just a naïve imagination. 
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Well, can’t say I do not share it, but hey – one do lug around this tendency to always try to imagine answers to: “why dis?”. :7
It would certainly be self-defeating (if this is what is being done) to bring in a fibre for the video (…and without noteably adding range, at that), but keep USB shackling everything to the limitations of copper – and we need throughput for two major add-on data sources, on top of the rather-frequent-IMU data-traffic-(and-less-frequent-lighthouse-data),-from-both-the-HMD-and-the-hand-controllers,-plus-audio-in-both-directions. :7
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If it’s indeed only carrying the power over copper/metal, why only 6 meters?
Why not the 10 meters everyone has been asking for? 
I think the limitation comes from not carrying the USB signal over fiber, but I’m just guessing here of course…
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In conclusion:
we know nothing about how it works 
Let’s use it and have the benefit of a lighter and more flexible cable
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And if folks wait you can tell us if it is worth it. Though we also have @NextGenVR and @john2910 for additional feedback having ordered.
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I can also tell you if I receive my price from the event. It’s included in the Alfa Award
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Why I said 
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