Definitly, mostly played some shooting game and a plane simulator that was hard to land on the carrier lol 
sorry all this is off-topic
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One biased bad review out of far too many good ones.
Digital Trends Gave Pimax CES award and Tom’s Hardware gave it raving reviews just name 2 reputable news sites.
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Negative reviews score though, so might even be as simply motivated as that. They’re dying! Dying!
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Problem with wide FOV is that people slap the HMD on and try to watch their right ear with their left eyeball. This is not natural and you will never do it when gaming as long you have a functional rotating neck.
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THANK YOU !!
Sorry for caps but it was needed, when I finally see someone else that me saying that
Actually maybe an hour before this on a french forum I posted this but I says this from the first day with my 8k :
la ou moi je ne pose jamais les yeux, mais genre jamais, même IRL, sauf si j’ai une minerve a cause d’un méchant torticolis.
Translated in : where I never lay my eyes, but like never, even IRL, unless I have a neck brace because of a nasty torticollis.
I was talking about the Dynamic FoV Rendering, since many care about that far distortion, what about pixelization?..
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Ha ha ha that made me laugh!!!
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I used to play racing games on tripple 27 inch screens. It is messy distorted on the sides. It was never an issue but added a lot to immersion. I am simply amazed that dedicated VR press is ran buy amateurs.
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That also makes we wonder - no body ever rants about games being distorted even on my single UWQHD format Monitor I have that, especially as soon as the FOV angel gets changed just a degree - but in VR it’s all the time a head line
( sure it’s nothing we want )
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Amen.
“Parallell Processing”. Wow. I have no words
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Yes, it works with the Dynamic Projection 
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I know to never read anything from them again.
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So true!
I’ve thought a lot about this since I got my 5k+ about a year ago.
My first impressions was based on me looking everywhere, twisting my head extremely while keeping my eyes fixed forward and twisting my eyes extremely while keeping my head forward. So, yeah, I saw some slight distortion. But I had to roll my eyes to where it’s, as you say, not normal.
Gradually I focused my eyes and mind back on the games. After a month or something the only thing I experienced was incredible worlds relieved from the days of looking through binoculars. I never see distortion nowadays.
As a way to get almost full peripheral vision in VR, Pimax is goddamn amazing.
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I fear I have to agree with you, Davobkk (who would have thought that day ever comes… 
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There are of course issues in Pimax performance on the market so far and they have a knack for appearing ill-prepared to events like CES. For sure their headsets by no means are perfect nor easy to setup and use. They clearly are an enthusiast’s choice, a headset with a number of trade-offs. All valid points.
Fair criticism of all of that and to present the pro’s and con’s - that’s what a journalist should do.
Ian Hamilton, the UploadVR writer responsible for the Pimax coverage at CES 2020, tweeted initial comments of nausea, and making fun of Pimax by posting a picture of himself with the 8KX on and the ironic text “Wow, look how excited I am”. I also read from somebody that UploadVR even had some kind of Youtube VRpanel discussion where they would not really cover Pimax other than cracking jokes at Pimax’ expense. And the article seems to follow suit (didn’t waste the time to read it as it became clear that he has a strong bias).
This guy is acting in a manner which makes me curious what is going on at UploadVR. Add to that the astonishing hiring of Heaney, who afaik has a rather poor reputation in the VR community as being a biased Oculus supporter, and you start to wonder even more. There clearly is more background to it and I suppose Pimax should not even care inviting UploadVR anymore because you get the distinct impression that they will write them down no matter what.
Yesterday I decided to unfollow them and removed them from my favorites. It is a pity because they used to be quite okay but times have changed, quite clearly. They were in desperate need of funding a year or two ago and who knows, perhaps we are just finding out at which price their rescue came.
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Supposed to be a source for the latest VR news and reviews and the first thing the guy says is he never tried a Pimax before? What has he been doing the last 2 years?
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It could almost be some kind of racism actually
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Good thing unbiased, thorough vr journalists exists out there cough Ben Lang cough…
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Indeed. He hasn‘t always been kind to Pimax but he was critical but fair - nothing more can you ask from a journalist.
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That was true of most of the early non UploadVR reviews.
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Red flag #1: He claims he owns both the Oculus Quest and the Index but only says positive things about the Quest and how “mainstream” it is. When I owned both headsets, I sold my Quest. The Index’s higher resolution and refresh rate are a game changer that I just can’t go back to a Quest like device.
Red flag #2: He admitted that Boneworks made him sick throughout the 12 hours he played it on the Index. So why try the same game that makes you sick on the 8K X? He should have tried a game that doesn’t make him sick, so that it wouldn’t bias his judgement of the other aspects of the headset.
Red flag #3: He says that his eyes are wider than most people’s IPD. Perhaps he saw more distortion than the average person because his eyes are physically closer to the edges?
Red flag #4: He is focused way too much on the perspective of mass consumer appeal/adoption rather than just giving an unbiased assessment.
I’ve never owned a Pimax before and I currently love my Index. But the 8K X looks promising and the mostly positive reviews convinced me to order it.
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I recall an old video report from some show where Sixense were exhibiting (I think they were doing Stem by then), where static almost completely overtook the audio, as the reporter walked up to them. 
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