You should let @Davobkk know he’s pretty 
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With StarVR heading for $5000 don’t think the pimax is overpriced. Now understand I am generally a cheap type.
Ie Hotas & real racing wheels are great but at $300 for me is kinda steep. Though if the lottery Commission would send me a winning ticket. I’d have them all. 
After the dust settles they need to make a 4k mark 2 with the goodies of the new headsets. Preferably using dual displays rotated 90° cinema style for overall res of 43200*2048 with native input & upscaler for lower res like original 4k.
Price it around $375-$400 US for headset only. Now if they can bump the FoV to 120 they would have a clear winner for mid tier VR. (Better than vive pro)
Oculus has stepped away from the competition & from what I hear is why the Oculus fellow resigned.
where are the headphones? are new Pimaxies compatible with P4k headphones?
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The website is a joke. PayPal link doesn’t work. No mention if shipping will be from an EU depot or if customers have to add 20% taxes and duties to the price at delivery if coming direct from China. IE is required to use credit card (not that I’d enter my credit card details into the Pimax website with its security history anyway). Come on Pimax. Get your act together.
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Think that because preorder dont stsrt until another 5 hours.
LOL comparing Pimax to StarVR One, that’s funny. And the price hasn’t been announced yet, who knows what it will be. It won’t be cheap, agree there, but come on, that’s a full OLED full RGB stripe 210 FoV HMD, with integrated eye tracking, foveated rendering and no distortion at all. It’s pretty much perfection, apart from the resolution. Nobody would call that HMD a steal though, that’s for sure.
Anyway I thought that I might get a Pimax 5k before the StarVR one releases and then switch to that. But now it seems Pimax won’t even fulfill 2500 backers before christmas so god knows when they’ll start shipping out pre-orders. Combined with a price tag that’s not exactly a steal, I’m gonna pass.
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If they get production upto speed by the end of the year as they estimate there shouldn’t be any need to pre order. What’s the point of giving them your money now with 6000 backers in the queue? Thats a huge risk with their track record. If and when they manage to fulfill 6000 orders the production lines should be at full capacity anyway. No reason to pay now?
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Too late. I have lost my faith on Pimax. I prefer to wait until you really have a full kit to deliver, and not just promises
When is payment processed? Now? OR later when item gets shipped?
You can use a Y adapter with the 4k headphones.
Lol very odd.
It’s now 60 minutes after a big pre-order countdown clock completed on the Pimax home page - but it appears that no one is still able to order?
The web page is actually responding quickly, so I don’t think it’s volume of users. The option to pay just appears to be missing? I’ve tried both IE and Chrome, tried English and Chinese versions of the site, all with the same results. Doh 
If StarVR doesn’t change their mindset my source likely accurate on price point.
So not funny & more than Xtal.
Like I said Sj you really need to try these headsets to appreciate them. Reviews one way or the other does not do them justice & you need a good setup to take advantage of it. My i5 6500 is not strong enough & is causing jaggies. & strangely enough the 8k is performing visually better than the 5k+.
Tomorrow i will see them on an i7 8700k then likely later that day on my new ryzen 7 2700x.
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The vive pro is overpriced because it’s nothing more than a standard Vive with a strap and a new display, also has almost the same hardware as the Samsung Odyssey that costs much less ($ 350 at the time I write)
Pimax is a completely new kind of product, so it can be expensive, but there are no elements to say that it is overpriced. Overpriced compared to what?
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Probably a dumb question but is the preorder version the official retail version?
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Yes. You’re not preordering a prototype. The finished product.
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Yes. As our backer units are retail versions.
Might as well preorder it when they fix the site. Still torn between 5k and 8k though. Majority is saying the 5k but there are some that saying 8k looks better.
If 5K Plus is better than 8K, why is 8K $200 more expensive? Explain that!
I managed to buy the 5k+ at 13h00 pm (UTC-05:00). Dunno why but the countdown from Pimax was 12 hours off…
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Price doesn’t always mean better as better is a matter of preferences.