VR News for 2026

General discussion
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as we’re heading for the New Year I thought I’d make a new thread.

Looking forward to see Pimax at another CES with mature hardware behind them and the Dream Air getting finalised.

I wonder what surprises we’ll get in 2026. New manufacturers seem to appear from nowhere.

Will we get Half Life 3 in 2026? Haha.

Will we see a Beyond 3? Pico5? Quest4?

Will we see a HMD break 140FoV? Lynx maybe?

It’s going to be an interest year for sure. When Samsung go head to head with Apple.

HMD wars feels like it’s just getting started.

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What I need is Half-Life. Gabe, can you hear us?

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Having a Super time here :+1::racing_car:

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Don’t even have time to put this on :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Is that a beta Dream Air ?

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Perhaps that’s the long missing 12k ?

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It’s the Dream Air LH version.

But not the final version.

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I wish the 12K can be in this form factor.

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Then why this Dream Air looked so different than other dream air? The form and shape are much larger than the other Dream Airs we’ve seen before.

Yeah, I do wish this were a 12k in alpha stage.

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Nah, they were all the same as the ones we used during the recent roadshows, or in Steve’s video.

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What do you think of Nvidia’s announcement of DLSS 4.5 6X Dynamic Multi Frame Generation? Could this be the end of the frame bottleneck for Pimax Super and VR in general?

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Seems like the Lynx R2, with Hypervision lenses (lol, no, not those 220 FoV ones, just ‘regular’ FoV), is due to be announced next week, definitely looks interesting:

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I’m looking forward to it as well.

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But wasn’t the regular Hypervision lenses like 140Fov? I hope so.

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So in this video they had 3 sets the smallest being 140 medium 160 and large 180.

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Yeah supposedly it’s the widest FoV on a standalone headset ever, so 140 seems about right.

Also it’s over 3k*3k per eye, REALLY hoping it’s 4k, then things are going to get interesting

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4k needs to be the base level for high end VR.

The best news is it’s singular lens design and not the 240 glued lenses Hypervision were showing off 2 years ago. That means 2 panels not 4 and the price hopefully will be under 2k.

PCVR really needs to differentiate itself from standalone and big FoV is the way to go imo.

It’s a shame Pimax abandoned large FoV in favour of the Crystal, Super now Dream Air. They look like they will be best when it comes back to FoV.

Maybe Pimax will License these lenses but by the time they put together a HMD they would have spent all their money on Dream Air.

Lynx need to show a working Prototype ASAP.

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Livestream with all specs later today: https://www.youtube.com/live/umH9LGhipCk

my guess would be 3.5k*3.5k panels and 140 FoV. Which at least would make it a very interesting option, especially if it’s priced <=$1500

Hopefully also with a better chip than the XR2+ Gen 2, although I fear it’s going to be exactly that chipset, which is actually rather weak. But I’m not even aware of any other qualcom succesor at the moment, so would be a pretty educated guess that it’s going to be that chipset.

EDIT I just googled it, seems there’s indeed no succesor to this 2 year old chip at the moment. I honestly found the performance quite disappointing on my Galaxy XR headset. Apple’s latest AVP chipset is SO much faster.

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@PimaxQuorra
What will release first?
Half life 3 or the 60g airlink for pimax crystal?

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Or the Pimax 12k…..

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