New headset : Pimax Crystal

glenimp617 · 20 Apr 2024 at 14:54

wickfut said:
Just did the Crystal in the cart price to UK thing, $1200 in the cart, turns out to be £1550 ish by the time you factor in shipping and tax.
So this might be closer to £1k+, unless you wait for some online store to get stock.
If I can get a bare bones Crystal for £600-700 I'll prob get one just because. If it's closer to £1k or more than I'll wait for the OLED or something

The one I mentioned above will be around £800 inc shipping and tax, but not sure about import duty. Think Pimax have an EU distribution point, but not sure if it means any additional duties to pay.

Tykey · 6 Jun 2024 at 10:54

Pimax Crystal Light, which is a Pimax Crystal with all the standalone bits removed.

Looks a decent proposition (imo) if you're after a PCVR only VR headset. $799 (probably plus taxes? not sure) for such a high resolution headset with inside out tracking and controllers looks good, caveats are it's Pimax and the controllers might be not so good although Seb says they are ok in this video.

The weight is reduced a lot but it's still bulky. If I wanted a PCVR only headset I'd be seriously considering this, but I like good quality standalone too much now. If I had the spare cash it'd be cool to have this just for sims etc.

Tykey · 12 Jun 2024 at 16:01

Seb being negative about some aspects of Pimax, at times they shoot themselves in the foot so to speak with how they do business imo.

drakulton · 15 Jun 2024 at 19:27

LostCorpse · 15 Jun 2024 at 20:27

sounds lke a fairly honest and upfront update.

drakulton · 7 Jul 2024 at 17:23

OldBoy75 · 11 Jul 2024 at 22:04

drakulton said:

He's right about having to improve quality control, my crystal light arrived yesterday with a defective right lens, slight warping and distortion around where the the sweet spot is.

Tykey · 12 Jul 2024 at 10:40

Pimax have had QC issues since they started, maybe this is common it seems with VR headsets, always seems to be numerous complaints about them although Pimax appear to attract more complaints than most.

ImMrChris · 15 Jul 2024 at 17:13

Have any Crystal Light's landed in the UK yet?

OldBoy75 · 16 Jul 2024 at 16:58

ImMrChris said:
Have any Crystal Light's landed in the UK yet?

Yes I received mine a week ago but its defective.

Trying to return it to them but so far it's not been an easy task.

ImMrChris · 16 Jul 2024 at 19:33

OldBoy75 said:
Yes I received mine a week ago but its defective.

Trying to return it to them but so far it's not been an easy task.

Hmmm that’s not a good start

OldBoy75 · 18 Jul 2024 at 17:01

Not a good start at all. support take around two or three days to reply to emails with the latest reply asking me to remove and reinstall the right lens which is clearly defective. hopefully with the lens being removable they will send me a replacement right side lens which i can install myself instead of sending the headset back and going to the back of the queue for a replacement.

drakulton · 31 Jul 2024 at 21:59

glenimp617 · 2 Aug 2024 at 08:26

They have some crazy ideas at Pimax. I could have said the above pretty much word for word a year ago.

Just concentate on one VR headset, then when the times right make a 'lite' version of it when working on the next.

Small companies don't need lots of skus. Nothing good comes of it.

ImMrChris · 7 Aug 2024 at 09:24

@OldBoy75 did you recieve your replacement unit yet?

OldBoy75 · 7 Aug 2024 at 13:16

ImMrChris said:
@OldBoy75 did you recieve your replacement unit yet?

Another right side lens was sent to me to replace the defective one. Should be with me today or tomorrow.

ImMrChris · 7 Aug 2024 at 15:03

OldBoy75 said:
Another right side lens was sent to me to replace the defective one. Should be with me today or tomorrow.

I would like to hear your experience with it all once you've had some time to enjoy it

wunkley · 9 Aug 2024 at 12:43

Can I just ask those that have very recently got a Pimax Crystal/ Crystal Light, what GPU are you running?

I'm trying to weigh up if my current RTX 3090 has the grunt or not (for MSFS 2020 primarily). Using a Reverb G2 at the mo and I'm itching for some extra clarity. Was toying with the PSVR2 for the OLED goodness (and because it's cheap) but the lenses and actual resolution of the panels are no better, so it's pointless.

glenimp617 · 9 Aug 2024 at 13:14

wunkley said:
Can I just ask those that have very recently got a Pimax Crystal/ Crysta Light, what GPU are you running?

I'm trying to weigh up if my current RTX 3090 has the grunt or not (for MSFS 2020 primarily). Using a Reverb G2 at the mo and I'm itching for some extra clarity. Was toying with the PSVR2 for the OLED goodness (and because it's cheap) but the lenses and actual resolution of the panels are no better, so it's pointless.

Yes because they will be releasing a 2160 upscaling mode. Then in the future if you upgrade you can increase the clarity.

wunkley · 9 Aug 2024 at 13:20

glenimp617 said:
Yes because they will be releasing a 2160 upscaling mode. Then in the future if you upgrade you can increase the clarity.

Interesting, didn't know about this. Damn you, I was all set to wait until I get a new GPU in the next year perhaps, but now you've sown a seed

Given I already use DLSS upscaling for VR in MSFS 2020, will this Pimax upscaling work ok alongside that I wonder? It will have to or it will be useless for me on a 3090.

Upscaling demo & FPS benchmarks (Upcoming feature of Pimax Play for the Crystal Light)

Read more here: https://pimax.com/blogs/blogs/pimax-progress-update-august-5/?ref=imcOrder the Pimax Crystal Light here: https://pimax.com/pages/crystal-ligh...

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