Pimax has two PC VR headsets in growth: the ultralight Dream Air and the extensive field-of-view Crystal Tremendous. The corporate not too long ago supplied an replace on the event progress of each headsets, together with an replace on the delivery timeline of Crystal Tremendous.
Pimax Dream Air Replace
Pimax Dream Air is the corporate’s first effort to construct an ultralight PC VR headset. First introduced in December with a value of $1,900, the headset is present process numerous tweaks as the corporate completes the prototyping section and strikes towards an anticipated Might launch date.
In its newest replace on Dream Air, Pimax says it has added speaker pods to the edges of the headset for improved audio.
The headset’s tether can be altering from a single cable that runs alongside the left aspect of the headset to a cut up cable that may run alongside each side after which mix into one cable behind the consumer’s head. Pimax says this modification will assist with the steadiness of the headset.
Pimax can be shifting the Dream Air’s USB-C accent slot to the underside of the headset to make it extra accessible for clip-on equipment like trackers. And the latest iteration of the headset’s design now consists of vents for energetic cooling, because the compact headset and shows could have loads of warmth to dissipate.
The corporate additionally says it has an early prototype of the headset’s pancake lenses, and specifies that they’ve a concave entrance floor that helps develop the headset’s field-of-view. Between that and barely canting the lenses and shows, Pimax says it expects the ultimate area of view to be 105° horizontally quite than the initially introduced 102°.
Discipline-of-view isn’t the one factor that might improve, nonetheless. The corporate says it’s nonetheless selecting between two candidate shows. Each are micro-OLED with similar decision. However one of many panels (from Sony) has “higher optical qualities,” in response to the corporate, but in addition the next price ticket. If the ultimate model finally ends up utilizing the Sony panel, Pimax says it might improve the price of the headset “a tiny bit.”
Whereas it’s good to see the field-of-view go up, doubtlessly altering already-announced specs and costs with little greater than two months earlier than the headset is meant to ship appears to bolster longstanding criticism that the corporate typically will get forward of itself in planning and execution.
Talking of the headset’s purported Might launch date, Pimax signifies on this newest replace that it expects to have a “correct working demo unit [of Dream Air]” in April, one month earlier than the headset is anticipated to ship. And in Might, the corporate says it’ll have a “public occasion” to showcase the headset.
The video concludes with the corporate saying, “we’re fine-tuning the ultimate components and on the similar time additionally minimizing the danger for delays. The Dream Air is on the best way and we’ll be displaying it publicly quickly.”
Pimax Crystal Tremendous Replace
Crystal Tremendous is the corporate’s newest giant form-factor PC VR headset which goals for a large field-of-view (130° horizontal) and excessive decision (3,840 × 3,840).
Crystal Tremendous was initially introduced in April, 2024, with an anticipated launch date of This autumn 2024. Within the latest replace, the corporate shares its newest projections for the headset’s launch date: the tip of March for the 50 PPD model and mid-April for the 57 PPD model.
Pimax says that early variations of the Crystal Tremendous are within the fingers of ‘beta testers’ who’ve been offering suggestions. Based mostly on that suggestions, the corporate is seemingly regressing the Tremendous’s headstrap design to one thing nearer to its prior headsets: a easy over-the-head strap (as a substitute of a horizontal strap with ratcheting adjustment) and a bigger facepad for higher weight distribution.
The corporate additionally addressed newly imposed tariffs that the US has positioned on merchandise from China. Pimax says it should eat the price of the tariffs for any orders positioned earlier than they had been introduced (February 4th). Nonetheless, the corporate means that the tariffs will improve the price of its headsets sooner or later.
