Haha, you are funny. You can buy it of course, but you'll never see anything of it for quite a time.

@ I’m not broke I will pay the 650+ extra as soon as I receive it

That isn't true at all, they are releasing 3 different variants of the Super, 57ppd qled, 50ppd qled, and Micro OLED which will be $300USD more than the qled models. They are just releasing the QLED versions first. The oled hasn't been released for pre-order as yet.

And then they run this thing at 75% resolution on 4090 laptops... Bravo!

@@Szabby999 the mind boggles at their levels of decision-making.

Not sure if there's any specific issue with our communication, if so please let me know. I think we have communicated about everything clearly, including the distortion we still need to work on.

@@JaapGrolleman I appreciate you reaching out. It's not necessarily about a single instance of miscommunication, but rather a pattern of overpromising and underdelivering that Pimax has established over the years. Specs and features have been changed or removed between announcement and release, leading to a sense of distrust among some users. To be fair, I have noticed improvements in your communication recently. Acknowledging the distortion issue is a good example of transparency. However, given the past, I think it's understandable why people remain cautious. Ultimately, the final product will speak for itself

@@3ReJuv Remaining cautious is fine, I'd recommend that for any brand! I think that's a bit more nuanced than "don't believe anything Pimax says".

​@@JaapGrolleman It may be more nuanced, but only people with inside information gets to see the full story. From the consumer point of view Pimax has always over promised, under delivered and regularly blatantly lied! As a 8K X owner that was promised a trade in with a 12K, I am particularly sceptical of anything Pimax. Where is the trade in offer now? "The 12K is closer than you think" was what we were all told...3 years ago? Pimax showcasing unfinished products at a trade show is also very on brand.

@@JaapGrolleman I'm disappointed that you chose to misquote me in your response. I never said 'don't believe anything Pimax says,' and it's frankly unprofessional to attribute words to me that I didn't use. My original statement was, "Just ignore everything they say and judge the headset once it comes out.' It seems you're trying to downplay legitimate concerns about Pimax's history by misrepresenting my words. Instead of twisting my statement, I'd appreciate it if you addressed the pattern of unmet expectations that has led to this skepticism. Rebuilding trust requires acknowledging past mistakes and taking concrete steps to demonstrate that things will be different this time. Hopefully, the final product will speak for itself.

The higher resolution headsets coming out in 2025 are still going to produce higher clarity even at the same rendering resolution. The idea that the GPU has to scale along with the panels is an outdated holdover from flat monitors that doesn't actually apply to VR. Better lenses and higher resolution panels will increase clarity passively even with no increase in GPU performance. Which isn't to say that increasing GPU performance as well isn't desirable. It is. The 5090 isn't as big a generational leap over the 4090 as we'd like, but so far all the tests I've seen have been with flat gaming. And they show the 5090's advantage increasing more as resolution increases. It's possible/likely that this trend continues with high resolution VR headsets, and we'll see an uplift greater than the 30% average seen in flat gaming tests. The uplift from the 3090 to the 4090 followed this pattern for VR vs flat. Flat gaming tests suggested ~60% increase. But my own result in VRChat were 100%. Literally doubled the frame rate. So we'll see what happens once we can start getting some VR benchmarks.

@@SargonDragon Agreed, the VR based reviews of the 5090 will be interesting, this is where we'll see what the 5090 is really made of! LOL

The people looking towards the 50x0 series are dillusional. There is no GPU that can run modern titles at full 2x 4k resolution. There never will be. When stronger GPUs are released, software that leverages their capabilities will also become available, immediately making the GPUs insufficient to drive these high resolution VR headsets. VR and modern titles will always demand beefy up-to-date GPUs. But to get us across the finish line this will also necessitate foveated rendering , which shaves off some of the resolution. As opposed to the silly idea modern GPUs represent a solution, that actually is one. The solution is software. Not hardware.

@@a5cent I already run games at 2x 4k resolution. Have done for years. You're right that there's a lot of improvement to make in software. The rendering pipeline is designed around flat monitors and is inefficient for VR. But to say that improving hardware is not also involved is going too far. The answer is both hardware and software. The 5090 will improve VR graphics over prior GPUs. It actually doesn't matter whether it keeps up with VR panel resolutions. Any increase you can get in the rendering resolution will improve clarity.

@@SargonDragon Read my comment again. You are repeating a point I already acknowledged but missed the main point. As to you running modern titles at 2x 4k... I'm happy to call BS on that, but it's not worth arguing over as there is always some way to make that claim (reducing quality settings, engaging DLSS scaling, accepting very low FPS, etc). People willing to go down that route don't need 5090s either.

And besides, everyone complained about the Crystal having an integrated battery and built-in stand-alone capabilites; so now that the Super has removed this, those folks should be celebrating that wireless support is now gone too.

The only Pimax headset I've ever had is the OG Crystal. I also have an OG Vive, Index, and Vive Pro 2 and I can definitively say that in comparison with those headsets, the Crystal is just as good with respect to distortion, and that I've never had an issue with that. Pimax DOES tend to have teething issues with things like this though, especially in the early stages, but I just wait until the software stablizes and reviews become favorable; and then buy with the full intention of testing it for a week and returning it if it doesn't pass my inspection. Oh, and I should remark that this isn't my method of purchase for just Pimax, it is the method I apply to the purchase of all my headsets, and pretty much any other hobby item I buy from anyone. Of course, if you never buy from Pimax again, I guess that at least guarantees that you will have a good experience with another vendor, so I suppose that's a solution too.