Well he doesn’t only mention varifocal. He also talks about eye tracking and man, I couldn’t agree more, this should be on any gen 2 HMD, not just for foveated rendering, but way more importantly for distortion correction which is like a must for wide FoV HMD’s.
I suggested this last year, the Pimax engineer seemed to think that eye tracking couldn’t even improve distortion correction (or he didn’t seem to understand/bother). Now StarVR proved him dead wrong.
yeah this thing about slapped in panels disturbed me also, this is junk journalism. It gives a totally negative picture, it took years of development. When i had bought my 4k a few years ago they were already busy developing the 8k.
and I completely agree that would be gen 2 immediately for me, but it is a bit of wishful thinking when I think Abrash said in their keynote that eye tracking + foveated rendering has still ways to go before hitting an actual retail product. maybe I’m wrong, but he was talking about 2022 or something like that.
So if the eye tracking for Pimax it’s gonna suck or not enough for the purpose of foveated rendering or improving distortion correction in real time, maybe eye tracking is not good enough for prime time, idk.
I hope I’m wrong, because I want all of this stuff too, but for me the unfair part of the review is that you cannot say “don’t buy Xbox One X because next year 2080 Ti is coming and will destroy all of what’s available with it’s Ray tracing shit and their DLSS stuff”
Eh? Eye tracking is default/standard for the StarVR One and seems to work wonders, since reviewers say there’s no visible distortion AT ALL. I’m sure the HMD does also the HMD rendering foveated (would be weird to only correct distortion). Of course to take 100% advantage also the game rendering would need to be done foveated, that’s a while off I guess, but like said, the biggest reason for eye tracking wide FoV HMD’s is the distortion correction.
Could you merge the threads?
but the perceived resolution is less (maybe I’m wrong), don’t have varifocal and to power it you need multiple GPUs also, and the retail price would be unreachable for consumers, I don’t know… maybe they have their own special sauce going on in the eye tracking.
My point is that you can’t have it all right now, you can try to push it, and maybe you get away with some of it, but remember this a 2018 headset not a 2022 one, and this cost 799 for the complete package not 4000 or whatever… so it will surely have it’s compromises.
Don’t you need to compile in the StarVR SDK for titles to take advantage of its unique features?
Its supposed to be 6 out of 10.
I dont know why its saying 3 out of 10.
The backend is screwed up and shows as a scale of 5. It needs to be manually changed and one of the must have gotten it wrong. I’ll get it corrected today.
Fcat doesnt work in piplay, so i couldnt gwt the real results from the native support.
Forgot to mention that in the body of the article.
This yet has to be seen. Panel utilization on the StarVR supposedly is 100%. We still know nothing about panel utilization on the Pimax 5k+. Someone needs to open the HMD and measure the panels and do experiments with the lenses since Pimax doesn’t seem to want to tell us the panel sizes.
I have no clue. they were using The Lab at IFA
Definitely not the case. I gave it a 6/10. The UK website screwed up the rating on the UK site. We’re trying to get it corrected, but apparently it’s not as simple as it sounds. Please look to the US site for accurate ratings for now.
I’m not mad about not getting an 8K M2. I requested the 5K+ as my M2 unit. The 8K will vome later as my backer reward. That way i can review both headsets.
When the software is final, i will retest some games and write about that too.
This review represents the current state of the headset. The hardware wont improve. The software likely will.
Yeah that review was a shit show ! Embarrassing thing is that it was posted maybe Tom’s hardware is not paying the reviewer enough .
I’m sure the UK site version of that review just changed again. Seems much more detailed now (and has a page 2) or I am just going crazy. Native Oculus Support was not mentioned the first time I looked. Now there is a big section on it with PiTool pics.
I remember in 2016 when my Vive just came out and I had just bought a 980. It became apparent that the 980 wouldn’t be good enough so I pre-preordered a 1080, returned my 980, and my Vive sat until I received my 1080. The 980 wasn’t good enough then, why would it be any different today for Pimax and GPU’s. Needing a higher powered GPU shouldn’t be a con but a reality with new tech like this.
Trust whoever you want to trust. I shared my opinion, which is informed by my experience with the rest of the headsets on the market.
The only VR headset that I haven’t tested thoroughly is the Dell Visor and only because they won’t send them to reviewers.
The Pimax 5K+ is not a bad headset. It’s just not good enough to live up to the hype that this forum constantly creates. I wanted to temper expectations a bit because I don’t think the device that landed on my doorstep is worthy of the unfounded praise that backers who haven’t tested it keep giving.
Oh oh, duck away for the shit storm, it’s coming … Sweviver said it’s a REEEEAAAALLY GREAT HMD so don’t you dare say otherwise!!!
No that doesn’t sound like a millionaire living in the Caribbean islands to me !!?
Fair enough. Will be interesting to see how the first 100 comment on it too, see if they agree with your 3/5. Hopefully fixes will come that give it another point.