Pimax is known for their crazy high resolution headsets, but they haven’t been the most accessible over the years. Their latest news release is full of information on never seen before controllers and compatible trackers, modifications to new headsets, and special packages for the Kickstarters that helped fund this amazing company back in 2017.
Below, you can find the information that Pimax has released on their headsets and the packages you can get them in.
Hand-tracking
- Price: $170
- Shipping: in December, first to backers who opted for the module
- Made with UltraLeap (previously UltaHaptics)
Eye-tracking Module
- Price: $300 ($200 for backers)
- Shipping: to testing groups December 15th
- Backers can use coupons to reduce to $100
- Designed in partnership with 7Invensun
- Special design for wide FOV headsets with canted displays
- Enables DFR (dynamic foveated rendering)
- Compatible with the all Pimax headsets
Modular Audio Strap
- Price: $120
- Shipping: in December, to backers first
- Includes high-end replaceable audio above the ear speakers
- Includes an extra face-foam in the box
- Compatible with all Pimax headsets
Vision Comfort Kit
- Price: $50
- Shipping: November 1st
- Includes a new design of the facial interface that is designed to reduce visual artifacts, Nose Guard to prevent light leakage, and larger soft forehead padding.
- Supports all Pimax headsets
10 Meter Extended Length Cable (normal Pimax cable is 5 meters)
- Price: $99.95 + Shipping
- Shipping: in November, available for order soon
- Low impedance extra-long single cable
- Allows for much wider room scale VR environments
- DP 1.4 and USB 3
Lighthouse 2.0 Base Stations
- Price: $300 deposit, final consumer price N/A
- Shipping: in 3-4 weeks to those who have ordered them
- No added charges or shipping costs
There are a few kits that stick out, but the one we like the most is the eye tracking attachment. This subtly included foveated rendering, which may the biggest advancement in any consumer headset in the past few years. Foveated rendering allows the screen to move parts of itself in and out of focus depending on where the eyes are looking. In real life, the you are focusing on your phone, everything else is slightly blurry. In virtual reality, it should be the same. Pimax is enabling that with the latest eye-tracking software.
The next most exciting attachment is the hand tracking. There is some skepticism with this update, and rightfully so. Pimax has never had hand tracking on their own headsets before, so testing it out on the consumer market is going to be a slight risk. We are unsure of any developers that have features the hand tracking from Pimax in any of their creations, so it is going to be interesting to see how this works out for the company. If it works out good, then we could possibly be looking at the latest and greatest hand tracking inside of a headset. It is important to note that it will be available before the hands tracking on the Quest is released to the public.
The audio strap and the comfort strap aren’t must-haves, but they are good pieces to have if they are reasonable to buy. The 5K headset and the 8K headset is going to be just fine without either of these add-ons, but it is going to enhance your consumer experience just enough.
Pimax headsets are only becoming more popular and streamlined than ever, and their latest releases are only helping with the broadening of the company. For more VR news and hardware updates, make sure to check back at VRGear.com.
