Delivery took just over a month for UK (not terrible)

Why I purchased: Coming from an Index, my goals were lighter headset, better visuals and similar or better FOV.

Firstly the positives

• Build quality to me feels great, I know some have said otherwise but I just don't see any problems. Perhaps I have a new batch but I can honestly say it feels good.

• Edit: Sorry forgot to mention, I had to tighten the straps to try and solve the FOV, this caused the little connector to keep popping off. Very annoying. Imagine it would be solved with aftermarket bands or mounts.

• Visual quality is amazing. (To add more, coming from an index the clarity was night and day. I couldn't see the tiny nodes anymore, the text was fantastic, the colours amazing)

• Blacks are fantastic, Trucking at night for a bit was amazing.

• Software, I used both Play and EVO and they seem great, lots of features and easy to use.

• Light, Wow, very light. Well done Pimax

Negatives

• The new gasket (I think I have the new one as they said I would) is okish. I ordered the studioform from advice in this sub and it was way better, way more comfortable and feels like a nicer fit. Honestly, Pimax just ship the unit with these instead.

• Lenses Glare, there is a noticeable quarter circle light glare which I assume is the lenses at night. In fast racing I didn't really notice, but with more slow paces travel it's unavoidable and since the play space is so small it's really distracting at night especially when I turn my head.

• Discomfort, to try and combat the FOV I have the straps very tight to push the lenses closer, this did improve FOV slightly but is extremely uncomfortable. Headstap does nothing for this as it's the otter edge of the lenses pushing against my nose and cheek etc.

• Blur, there was blur when moving my head. Noticable, even with high FPS.

• Distored text, sometimes the text was clear, then it doubled up, it was strange. Moments of bliss and clarify interrupted by odd things.

• Sound. The built-in audio seems pointless to me. Volume too low, no clarity, especially if it's sim racing. You'll need to factor in a separate audio system.

• Edit: Additional negative I forgot to mention. Putting the headset on and off is so frustrating. The prongs that stick out make it a nightmare, and as mentioned already it kept pulling the connector out. So I was having to unstrap it everytime to take it off. I imagine aftermarket headband or mount would solve this.

Dealbreakers (for me)

• FOV, it's too small. WAY too small. I tried the headset stock to see how much improvement I can make. It was horrid, felt like I had two black rings around my eyes (bino-vision I guess). I knew it wasn't the best going in which is why I was prepared, studioform gasket helped a bit, made it feel a little less claustrophobic. I then tried the EVO app with no improvement. I then tried the sboys3 driver and no noticeable difference. I put it down for a bit, did some more research, altered settings, adjusted things and still nothing.

Summary: I don't know honestly, I don't know who this is for. For me the visual space is so small due to FOV that I wasn't enjoying myself. I tried extremely hard, tried to focus on the middle of the screen for as long as possible in the hopes my peripheral vision would ignore it or something, but I kept getting disappointed and furstrated at every turn in the road.

I assume the full dream air is better, it's out of my price range unfortunately. It's with massive disappointment I will be returning the headset.

Thanks for reading. I hope to be back one day.

Ran a quick playtest of the latest version of OFXR Bridge with a Pimax DA (Win 11 / 32GB / 5090). The release notes highlight support for Pimax OpenXR and support for Star Citizen VR, among other enhancements.

I tried MSFS 2024 first in my favorite test bed city, the Las Vegas Strip, using Pimax Open XR (no smart smoothing). The OFXR bridge app was working as I could see the green FPS counter in the top right (I noticed that the counter now includes a latency counter as well as an indicator showing the frame gen, 3x in my test). The good news is that the game FPS improved significantly as shown by the counter (over 60 FPS in an area where 40 is tough to maintain at DLSS Quality). Unfortunately, I still saw lots of stuttering, especially on turns, even though the latency counter didn't seem very high in my test. I disarmed the bridge and ran a test with just native Pimax OpenXR (no smart smoothing), and even though the FPS went down to normal levels (40+) there was little to no stuttering, and turns were smooth...native Pimax OpenXR for the win in this test.

I followed with a test of Star Citizen. I made sure that the bridge was armed and launched the game with Pimax OpenXR, but I didn't see the green FPS counter, which means that the bridge isn't running according to the setup guide. In addition, game FPS was unchanged. I'm not sure why it wasn't working for SC (maybe I missed a step somewhere).

Conclusion: I think OFXR has some real potential, hopefully there will be some additional releases to address the above issues. If anyone is seeing different results, please share!

Little write up for VPX pinball users

Hi I have a Dream Air and I noticed the VR world in iRacing is a little small, the interior of the car is small, the steering wheel is smaller than should be,.... reading a little bit apparently our IPDs are used by our brains to appreciate the size of things, and the VR games are designed with a standard/average IPD of around 63 or 63.5, this is the distance of the "VR cameras" used to generate the image for every eye.

My IPD is 65.5, so that would explain why I see the things a little small in VR.

In other games like MSFS2024 there is the parameter "World Scale" precisely to adjust this, but apparently in iRacing there is no way to do it in the game

I read you can do it with OpenXR Toolkit, but I think this mod is not supported anymore and I read it could creates issues and many people do not recomend to install it.

Is there other way to do it in Pimax software some way?

I’m coming from a quest 3 because I wanted better visuals I don’t play sim just pcvr rpgs like half life and Titan fall two I just sold my quest 3 to get one I found second hand for $550 and I’ve just heard horror story after horror story should I just get another quest 3?

edit: I have a 5080/9800x3d and 32gb ddr5 ram

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There are a couple of Outlast VR mods available at present and i was fortunate to be offered to try this new one by the mod dev StrikeZoneVR

I'm trying to decide between a BSB 2e and the Dream Air Lighthouse for Sim Racing, specifically I have the Qubic QS-220 motion system and wondering if anyone has motion usage with this or a similar system. Qubic does have built in VR stabilization features I haven't been able to test.

I'm running a 9800x3d and 5080. Previous Index user but the resolution really killed it compared to a 49" curved and it's done-zo.

Mixed on choice l. Dream air for slightly better cable, much higher visuals and sharing capability. BSB for price and much higher rated customer service but not many people seem to have experience with this.

Thanks I'm advance.

WOW! That’s all I can say guys.. Ashok’s high res 4k texture pack brings RE7 to the next level in the Dream Air. “Full,” not the “lite” version. Looks as good as Half Life Alyx (once you get past the beginning outdoor section). And runs very well once you get it dialed in (I’m running with a 5090).

A few things I’ve discovered:

-The Fluffy Mod Manager method did not work for me for the high res textures! Only dragging and dropping directly from the extracted RAR files.
-Turn off subsurface scattering
-Set textures to high

Enjoy.

Ever wish Pimax's boundary wasn't unusable? I sure did:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/comments/1jajept/pimax_guardian_is_awful_let_me_use_steam_vrs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/comments/1wcyvh4/pimax_guardian_room_boundry_has_been_broken_for/

Then I punched my desk corner mid-game because the boundary didn’t cover it. Right Index controller stick broke. Enough is enough.

So I've created ZoneTweak. (like ChaperoneTweak) for the Pimax Lighthouse safety zone. You put the headset on and the boundary shows up as laser generating posts on the floor. You grab them and drag them exactly where you want, add points or delete them, then hit save. It writes straight into Pimax’s own files, reboot pimax and it's got the correct shape for your boundary. No corner cutting.

Other stuff it does:

• Save named play spaces and swap between them. I’ve got a door that changes my space depending on if it’s open or closed, so that one was a must. You can even switch from a desktop shortcut without putting the headset on.
• Lets you change the warning distance for when the boundary shows up, which Evo doesn’t let you touch. There’s a test mode so you can see exactly where it’ll trigger.
• Move, rotate or resize the play area.
• Backs up your original files before it writes anything, and there’s a restore button if you want the stock one back.

Also I went a little overboard on how it looks. Your room turns into a grimy cyberpunk industrial prison.

Grab it from the releases page here: https://github.com/killdano/ZoneTweak

Well after watching YouTube reviews for weeks I made the purchase. I decided to order the Dream Air SE Slam. I don’t have a new pc so I decided the SE might perform better with my system. I have a r7 5800x3d and a 7800xt (32 gb system ram). I’m coming from the psvr2 on pc, so I am extremely excited. I did order HonVr lenses to protect the pimax lenses. I’ll be installing the sboys stream vr driver as well. Shipping times will be 2-3 weeks, and I’m sure that will feel like forever.

So following the topic of Pimax Dream Air working in Linux I've repeated steps and improved them with my Crystal Super oLED. Also I've improved working with eye tracking so now with SBoys3 driver, OmarchyVR and my OpenXR Layer quad views lib I have working env for Linux VR gaming with Quad Views. Layer is here: https://github.com/artscout/linux-vulkan-quadviews-openxr-layer

Not sure how well known this version of Evo is. The eye tracking on my Dream Air SE wasn't working correctly on any prior version of Evo, but it now works perfectly with Evo 2.0.0, which BTW is based on Pimax Play 2.0.4. All the other good stuff that Evo has is there, though its GUI has been completely overhauled. Note that it set my brightness to 55% when installed, but no big deal to adjust it to your liking.

https://store.pimax.com/pages/pimax-evo-v2?shpxid=95045c6f-34b5-4f0f-aa5d-96867ae5bb89

See Developer's Linked topic for more details

I read through some posts, but got no real conclusion. I have crazy glare with my DA. The Valve intro in HLAlyx has all of the borders lighting up in bright.

I have cleaned the lenses with soap water, but it doesn't get better. What you'd suggest to clean the lenses? Some special photo lense cleaner?

DA is a great headset, it has some issues, but I can live with those, but the glare is a no go. Any ideas what I can try?

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Regarding convexity. In the game when I look at a straight wall, it looks like its bulging outwards, like it's not straight. I hear that it could be an effect when you're too close to the lenses. Of course I am. I need the FOV. Could it be some software setting?

Why the desktop through steam vr has pretty good resolution but through Pimax home desktop resolution is awful and totally unusable?

Dream Air, Win 11 / 32GB / 5090. Just picked up GTA V Enh and want to give it a try with the new LR mod. I've been using the sboys3 SteamVR driver for most games, but it CTD immediately...I assume the EA launcher and/or Battleye anticheat has a problem, has anyone gotten it to work?

Assuming that sboys won't work, what's the best way to launch using Pimax OpenXR? On Luke's patreon it says you need to add - nobattleye to the game's launch options, does this mean it has to be launched via SteamVR? If not, can I run the game exe directly from the desktop, or does it need the Rockstar launcher?

Wanted to check here first before trying all these options myself and possibly borking up other things...if there are any other tips please share, thanks!

EDIT: The game works fine in SteamVR with sboys3 driver. The solution is to make sure the following settings are in the RVR section of the realvr.ini file:

PreferredAPI2=2

RenderMode2=2

I actually had this same issue with Cyberpunk 2077 and completely forgot (senior moment)...leaving it here as a PSA.

This is for my Pimax Dream air head strap adapter for the duel head band from vision pro. Not sure if this is a normal failure but they seem like the the only seller on etsy. Not going to mention the name but as soon as i installed it snapped off as soon as I pulled on it. i reached out to the seller and he said there was nothing i could do about it but he did refund me. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew about this.

I have a PCS 50ppd. Up until PPlay 2.04, I had no issues(minus controller tracking, but that will be a different post) using SVR. Everything lined up and played normal. I installed 2.0.4. Pimax menus and home appeared normal. I launch SVR and everything in Steam is double vision. Nothing would converge. I played with my IPD with no success. I then realized the Pimax menus and home were fine. I verified and repaired SVR. No change. I then tried re-installing SVR. No change. With the information I had, I re-installed EVO 1.0, effectively downgrading PPlay. Launched SVR and it was perfect.

I saw today they had EVO 2.0.0 and heard mentioned it was based on the latest PPlay 2.0.4 and gave it a shot. Sure enough, launched SVR and no convergence again. Final test, I launched Sb0y in dev mode. SVR ran fine. Everything converged and looked normal.

Each install was done Clean.

Anyone else come across this?

System Specs:
AMD 9800X3D
MSI RTX 5090
96GB RAM DDR5 6000Mhz
PCS 50ppd
1200w BeQuiet Power Supply
43" 1080p TV
Windows 11 Pro 26h2

I just got my Pimax Crystal Super and after updating drivers, going through all the trouble shooting I still cant get this to work. It just constantly connects, then says screen off, then disconnected, then loops through everything over and over. I've found multiple similar threads but cant seem to find any definitive solution. Anyone have any suggestions?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/comments/1hi9ffa/pimax_crystal_light_connecting_then_disconnecting/

I used DDU to uninstall my nvida drivers twice.

Updated BIOS

Latest pimax firmware

All USB have power saving off, same with power profile.

Ran with 1 monitor on low res

Removed all other USB devices besides mouse and keyboard

Specs- I7012700KF, 5070ti, 32gb ddr5ram, Asus Z690a

Loving my PCL but I have two issues:

1)Can't find a comfortable way to put it without ending up hurting my nose (because all weight ends up there), I try balancing it out but it's hard to find that balance.

2)For some reason I get my lenses a bit "misty", I have to be constantly removing them and cleaning them up. I'm guessing that if I manage to get them well placed in my head this will stop

What are you guys using to make this thing comfortable?

I heard studioform to be recommended a lot and I see they have a pack that includes everything to make it comfy (apache strap, counterweights, facial interface that seems thicker) do you guys recommend me this pack, or just to get apache strap and counterweights? I do admit the fácil interface feels a bit too slim, perhaps it gets the glasses so close to my head the second issue I'm talking about happens more often