The Pimax Crystal Light is Disappointing - Here's Why

[@ventidgetv8931]

My PCL had lense issues. Was so bad i had the worst barrel distortion. Terrible sweetspot. Took forever for new lense with no help. Returned it. Also gets hot. Had a friend go through 5 lesnes and 5 replacement headsets. Finslly got good lenses. Im not patient enough for that...

[@undercoversteve]

Yeppers, I really just want something outta the box that will work.

[@Pupp3t33r]

I just got a Quest 3 (my first VR headset) and looking for a PC VR upgrade. I'm not a sim player and more interested in games like Half Life and Metro. How big of a graphical upgrade is a Crystal Light over a Quest 3?

[@undercoversteve]

Quite a significant one. The Crystal Light has QLED panels, and 2880x2880 resolution per eye. It also has a wider FOV, with 115 degrees horizontal and 105 degrees vertical. There is also the optional Local Dimming version of the headset you can get, which improves the contrast (very dark black colors, which was the very impressive thing with this headset). The Quest 3 has LED panels, and 2064x2208 resolution per eye. FOV of 110 horizontal and 96 vertical. I had a ton of problems with quality control with this headset, but hey at least I'm getting my money back with the return. If you don't mind *potentially* wasting your time, you could go ahead and try this headset. It's definitely the most affordable PCVR option on the market as of now.

[@undercoversteve]

Here's a good VR headset comparison site, this was pretty helpful for my search. vr-compare.com/compare?h1=0q3goALzg&h2=6nd6PhR_A

[@DrEd1ard]

No issues with mine and I have 2 quest 3 and Pimax crystal light. I have sold the rest. Visually the crystal light is 10 out of 10. First time I get amazed by VR. Audio with DMAS is 10 out of 10. I do not use the mic so I guess is bad. And passthrough cameras are horrible. As you can see quite the contrary of Quest 3. I think they are complementary VR if you have the cash. If you need to choose, quest 3 is an all rounder.

[@KimionTM]

What a shame. I have a Quest 3 and love it except for the fact that it sends a video to the headset instead of it being a wired displayport connection. Hopefully someone makes a good wired alternative in the future

[@Woopass90]

My mate and I had the same issues. So disappointed. I refunded.

[@calvin7799]

I believe you've already returned the headset. Let me forward your video to our engineers, and we’ll make sure all these issues are addressed and fixed.

[@undercoversteve]

Thanks. Hopefully it all gets ironed out for the future.

[@mattgillatt]

Your customer service is appalling. Still waiting for my replacement, and then you post a video advertising a massive price drop to what I paid for a crap headset.

[@lassmirandadennsiewillja3943]

got normal crystal. this thing is horrible.

[@aj2228]

If you like social games, why not just get a standalone microphone?

[@undercoversteve]

I considered getting a ModMic for it, but it's just silly that I would have to do that to begin with to at least get bearable mic quality.

[@maxx1o1]

as someone with an og vive, trust me this is not how it goes. mod mics don't sound better and the only mics that sound even slightly decent are wired which is bad for many reasons. they should've just given us better control over the mic so that we could've turned off the noise cancelation because that's why the mic sounds pretty good on wired mics because they don't have any of that shit.