Good morning,
I’m Backer and one of the Spanish M1 testers. This is my first message in the public forum and will possibly be my last.
Each and every one of us from all the testers as well as the backers want the Pimax 5K-8K to be a great product and HMD of reference in the 2.0 VR generation. Each of us has a different perception based on our vision, need or preference (FOV, Resolution, performance…) possibly because each of us wants what best fits the type of games we play most.
There is a lot of discussion about technical issues and perhaps everyone is right. The Testers have shown Pimax their opinions, which are often the same and sometimes different.
I think that taking advantage of the rodashow and the presence of a large number of people would be a good idea to carry out a small survey. Such a survey would be public and could have the same format as the “Vote backer meetup locations” survey. Surveys have been conducted but now the Backer will have an objective opinion of the product.
Once the backer has completed his or her test time, he or she may fill out the following questionnaire.
BACKER NUMBER:
HORIZONTAL FOV: OK NO OK
VERTICAL FOV: OK NO OK
SDE: OK NO OK
RESOLUTION/DEFINICION OK NO OK
DISTORTION OK NO OK
GAMEPLAY: OK NO OK
PREFERS TO WAIT LONGER FOR BETTER EVOLUTION: YES NO
PERSONAL NOTE (Maximum five lines):
With this and once the roadshows are over, Pimax, taking into account the current state of the M2, should have a clear idea of the path to follow and its current final objective.
Let there be peace that we all want the same thing.
A year after the kickstarter, Pimax can’t keep going back to the drawing board. At some point they have to release a product and leave improvements for future generations. If there’s anything that isn’t OK at this point, I have doubts that another 6 months or a year in development will fix it. Not without re-selecting hardware and redesigning from the ground up.
I believe the goals and expectations should be realistic. Therefore, regarding your questionnaire: FOV, resolution and SDE are pretty much fixed by design and screens used, so it is unreasonable to demand changes in those departments at this point of time. And they are already on the limits of current and even next generations PC. I doubt that most demanding games will be able to run at max settings at constant 80 fps on resolution required. Even on 2080ti.
If there are distortions, they might be fixed, but the question is how bad it is, and if Pimax is able to fix it, or they had reached their limit in tinkering lenses.
Sounds like a good idea for a shared spreadsheet on google docs.
1st Tab - Survey form (that you print off and take with you or copy/paste into a email, fill it in and submit to somebody respected willing to fill out tab 2)
2nd Tab Locked, collated results from submissions. Maybe even a fancy pants pie chart.
This way the survey form can be updated right to the last minute. submissions are verified by email address (dismissing temp email addresses) and backer number.
Also having OK NO OK is odd. You need Acceptable / Not Acceptable / NA or Pass / Fail / NA
@Heliosurge said it better. imo it should be a numbered rating too. This way you get a better opinion on a statistic.
I think a numbered rating is a good indicator of something. It is what review sites use too. Some people will be “it’s OK” so they will not know what to put if the option is YES or NO because to them it is neither. it is maybe a 6/10
Well then you just have an option “Prefer to wait” if you want it in black and white.
But for something like distortion, that is not so black and white. lots of people could be like meh, its OK where others are a definite NO. So to read that statistic you would be better with a rating. Imagine an amazon review if it was just a YES but in reality it is a 3/5 (which is a YES) but it is not a solid YES.
