There are 2 different links for the article one with
3/5 & the other 3/10. The 3/5 is likely the accurate one.
Pumcy headset as folks know failed. He didn’t get past the first month & initially had to obtain a 1070 as the 980ti tanked.
pretty sure it was 3/5 dude
site reads 3/5
sites reads 3/10
@Pumcy like myself is in 
so the 3/5 is likely the correct rating.
yeah but as a backer… swevivr and mrtv cannot be unbiased. Toms hardwares review is middle of the road which is fair. It can only get better though as software improves and we get eye tracking and hopefully foveated rendering.
which the article failed to point out. was the modularity and expandibility.
but i would not let future promise affect a review so fair.
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What annoys me is that he uses the Steam suggested resolution (64% most of the time) like the lowest he can go, while Sweviver mentioned that with Steam at 50% and the latest Pitool the quality vs performance ratio is quite good, come on he was running Project Cars 2 on a 1080ti al playable frames! he should have tweaked for more than five minutes before doing a review, asked Pimax or checked the forums or vids, very unprofessional to be honest.
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How is sweviver and mrtv not unbiased?
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It’s a review that targets average user whom will often go with default values. This is a balanced review using steam’s dynamic presets.
It’s only a preliminary review.
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I would agree with you on the principle, but the article is really full of sh…
Irresponsible as well, they recommend the vive pro over a headset with less SDE and more FOV
which shows their bias
(" It’s going to take more than a couple of high-resolution panels slapped into an ultra-wide headset to knock the HTC Vive Pro off the top of our Best VR Headsets list ")
They recognize all the features of the Pimax5K and are not calling it true next gen because it requires huge gpus and lacks a headstrap (… ? )
At no point did they adress all the problems spotted by both Sweviver and Sebastian either,
they don’t mention anything about the colors, the SDE… they didn’t compare both headsets
didn’t warn about the LCD/Oled differences, something important for casual VR users if they’re switching from the Htc vive to something else…
To me it is clear that all the youtube reviewers having reviewed the Pimax ( amongst all the other headsets they also reviewed ) did the actual great review job. It’s a shame they don’t get more recognition
when they a do 1000% better job than some " established" hardware reviewer
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Yeah as I said, the review is basically missing everything I’d expect a vr headset review to be about.
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“We used an Intel Core i7-5930K 6-core processor”
maybe the bottleneck if its not overclocked and the game isn´t multicore optimized.
Dafuq, in the cons “feels fragile” lol
Tom’s hardware is a corp of incompetent
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Boo hoo hoo, it should be 5/5 because Sweviver said its REALLY GREAAAAAT
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I’m submitting that they had to ask someone outside tomshardware to plug the headsets for them,
and being so uncapable that they hurt their knee trying to put the headset on their heads
hence the " 3/10, bad headstrap. sad. " review
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Sjef you get worse every day. It’s comical what you’ve become.
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Well that’s most likely an error since it’s only on the UK site. The US site says it’s 3/5 which seems more in line with the review
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Thanks man, doing my best
3/5 as a rating as it is today seems ok for me, the headset has still to mature in software, and there’s still hiccups to be solved before release.
He mentioned in the article that backers will get a headstrap with earphones, but not in the original package, which is an odd thing to say because the retail package is not confirmed yet.
The thing that bothers me the most is that “professional” reviewers keep comparing Pimax with whatever they have in their minds as a gen 2 wishlist headset. That’s the wrong part of the review imho. Because even if oculus pushes the varifocal for Rift 2 , is still a year away or even more. And what happens if oculus doesn’t include varifocal in the next iteration? it would be a gen 1.5 headset too? It’s a prototype ffs!
You can’t compare a soon to be released headset with a future prototype, specially if Oculus himself says that if you want varifocal and eye tracking and wide fov and 4k per eye you are set to wait for 2022.
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7/10 or 3/5 is what people have suggested in the thread.
So why change it 5/5 and be childish and sarcastic? That’s just a bit weird dude.
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Because it had been established several times that it was 3/5, yet pretty much everybody is crying and whining.
I think 3/5 seems actually quite positive for this HMD with all its flaws
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…but not being childish and sarcastic.
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