Pimax Crystal Super mOLED vs QLED

General discussion
1

Hello everyone, I’m considering an upgrade from my Quest 3 and I’m torn between:

  • Pimax Crystal Super mOLED + Ice Silk Facial Foam

  • Pimax Crystal Super QLED UW + Ice Silk Facial Foam

  • Pimax Crystal Super QLED 50ppd + Ice Silk Facial Foam

  • (perhaps) Dream Air but since it as less fov than mOLED, I’m not willing to sacrifice more fov.

90-95% of my use case is assetto corsa but not racing, mostly vibe fast driving around villages, vibe drifting etc. Nothing competitive

The rest of my use case is horror games or Onward VR or flight sims.

Which one would you get in my position? I’m fine with the price of all of these devices. My setup is 5080 with 9800x3d & 32GB DDR5.

Ideally I’d want one of the QLED devices because of fov when driving. On Q3 I feel like I want some more fov, i feel a bit goggle eyes. However, micro oled has it’s own advantages. Based on my research:

mOLED pros:

  1. Sony has far better lenses, more reliable, no mura, no qc issues (qled is notorious for it’s issues)

  2. Oled has great blacks and great vibrancy

  3. Lighter

  4. FPS gains

  5. Better binocular overlap (could it increase immersion)

  6. Better lenses

mOLED cons:

  1. 116° FOV

QLED pros:

  1. 126° or 140° FOV options (the only reason to go for QLED in my use case)

  2. Better brightness (don’t care at all)

QLED cons:

  1. Lens lottery (qc issues)

  2. Mura is usual issue

  3. Worse lenses

  4. Worse blacks

Let me know if you know other pros/cons. The only real advantage of QLED I find is FOV. I’d love to have more FOV when driving around (for immersion only) but I really can’t justify risking of:

  1. Getting a bad qled unit

  2. Getting worse panel technology (qled instead of oled)

  3. Getting worse packet overall (weight, worse lenses, worse binocular overlap etc)

What do you think? How the mOLED compares to the qled ones in terms of FOV? What would you get in my position? I also don’t like spending that amount of money and having mura wherever I see.

In theory Dream Air looks like the most modern option but fov is a blocker. I’ve read some people saying about 120fov using mod but not sure.

2

Well I only own the Super UW right now, Dream Air comes on Monday, so I’ll tell you that the UW is great for sim racing. I only do iRacing with my VR, so I want to see if the smaller FOV but better OLED graphics are worth it along with the lower weight and smaller feel. I have the stock, silk and studioform pads and I prefer the studio form pads with my Super, along with their Apache top strap. Way better feeling on my face. With the stock and silk pads I would get a “hot spot” on my forehead after 20-30 mins of racing and now I do like 1.5 hour stints just fine.

1 Like
3

Thank you so much for your response. I’d appreciate if you give me a feedback when your dream air arrives. I’m especially interested in FOV & graphic differences. Secondary parameter is comfort but if it’s not huge difference not that important to me. I never play for more than 60-90 minutes.

4

My thoughts:

5

I have pimax super QLED 50ppd and MOled. You buy Micro oled. No mura and perfect colours. In the darkness scenes M oled is OK Qled tragedy. Like the rainbow effect.

1 Like
6

Well I do have a Dream Air that was DOA and the stock pre-production face mask is not that great. I don’t like the feel of it on my forehead. I never got to use it to see what the panels looked like, so I can’t review that, but comfort wise I am not a fan. I do have a Studioform face mask and pads along with 2 3rd party 3d printed face masks (max FOV and normal FOV style) on the way. The good part is that the Dream Air already has a bunch of 3rd party support by companies and users who want to make it the best.

1 Like