The Pimax Dream Air headset represents a brand new space of focus for the corporate. Whereas most of its headsets up up to now have been essentially cumbersome to realize their signature massive field-of-view, the Dream Air goals to make a headset that’s compact however nonetheless feature-rich. A kind of options—a headstrap that robotically tightens—could be an trade first.
Priced at $1,900 and purportedly transport in Might 2025, Pimax’s Dream Air headset goals to tackle an rising phase of compact high-end PC VR headsets like Bigscreen Past and the Shiftall MaganeX Superlight.
However it wouldn’t be Pimax if it didn’t make further formidable guarantees which threat pulling the corporate’s consideration away from delivering its merchandise on time and as promised. For the Dream Air, that further promise is an non-obligatory compute puck which the headset can plug into to change into a standalone VR headset. The corporate is looking the puck ‘Cobb’, and says it would embrace a Snapdragon XR2 chip and battery. Oh, and don’t neglect the non-obligatory SteamVR Monitoring faceplate.
Talking of pulling the corporate’s consideration… the announcement of the Dream Air continues Pimax’s development of showing new merchandise earlier than delivering on these it has beforehand introduced. The corporate’s Crystal Tremendous headset was introduced again in April 2024 and initially deliberate for a This fall 2024 launch, however is now mentioned to be releasing someday in Q1 2025.
As for the Dream Air, it would purportedly be compact and in addition filled with a wishlist of specs and options:
- Weight of 200g
- Decision: 13MP (3,840 × 3,552) micro-OLED per-eye @ 90Hz and “HDR”
- 102° field-of-view
- Inside-out monitoring
- Movement controllers & hand-tracking
- On-board audio
- Elective prescription lenses
- Eye-tracking
- Computerized IPD and automated strap tightening
That final one—automated strap tightening—is a characteristic that hasn’t been included in any main headset up to now. It’s an attention-grabbing thought contemplating the problem of becoming a headset comfortably; many customers wish to crank their headset tight to their face so it gained’t transfer, however essentially the most comfy means to make use of a headset is to stability tightness with stability.
The design of the auto-tightening strap additionally seems to be rigorously thought-about. Whereas we’ve solely seen renders to this point, it seems the tightening mechanism is hidden beneath material, making the tightening of the headstrap seems to be prefer it’s merely shrinking in place.
If the headset may successfully dial within the preferrred tightness, it might be a boon for a lot of customers. Dream Air additionally has automated IPD adjustment, which units the gap between the lenses to match the person’s eye width (one thing most individuals additionally aren’t good at doing manually).
Whereas it stays to be seen if Pimax can ship one thing as svelte as promised, for now it seems to be like the corporate is flexing an industrial design muscle that’s been largely hidden by the utilitarian and boxy model of its earlier headsets.
Nonetheless, Pimax isn’t giving up these boxy designs of yore. The corporate says {that a} compact headset is a brand new space of focus for the corporate, however it would proceed growing its bigger and wider field-of-view headsets.
Pimax is already taking pre-orders for the Dream Air, with a value of $1,900 and an anticipated launch date of Might 2025.
