Just got the Q3 and installed it this week, In combo with virtual desktop i got goosebumps all over me. MSFS became really really beautiful. My wife loves some mixed reality gaming so for me the Q3 was the way to go. (Thxs to some nice vids of you ❤)
Lol, even getting the excellent reverb g2 would be a massive upgrade from the rift - I know, that was my route. The quest 3 would be equally huge. Interested to know why you didn't go g2 or equivalent well before now? ;)
Oh boy are you in for a treat. Went from rift S to G2 to Pimax Crystal. Just make sure you have the hardware to make the most of the increased resolution 👍🏻
Upgraded from G1 to Crystal Light! And from TM16000 Stick to Moza AB9 and Flitesim Yoke! Now the MSFS 2024 and the next winter can come! ❤ incredibly looking forward
1 reason why not to buy Pimax Crystal Light: You order, you pay and you wait and wait and wait and wait... 🙄. Entering the 3rd month of waiting right now... (preordered a local dimming v.) ;].
I have heard people on Reddit talking about defects on their crystal light like their microphone not working. I might save my money and wait a while to see if Pimax improves their quality control. At least they’re aware they have issues to work on.
Yep. Some QC issues they are working out which I've highlighted in my previous video. Thankfully Pimax are looking after those who need a replacement, especially on my Discord anyway.
That was my reddit post actually, but it only cuts out occasionally and is fixed by replugging the usb. Think it's caused by me using the 3.5mm jack because my dmas order is delayed, and I'm also apparently the only one with the issue. Honestly it is still a great headset.
@@VRFlightSimGuy Yeah this is why I might wait a while before buying this headset or maybe the somnium vr1 if I save enough money for it. Just so there’s not so much trouble or a defective device
Got my Pimax Light 3 days ago, really loving it. Upgraded from my valve index headset. Clarity is wow… i dont see the screen door effect anymore than like how the index you somehow see. I do hope most of you that pre ordered get yours really soon. I thought i be waiting for late July but got mine in late June instead. Wish the cable was 1m extra long but can work around that.
I'm waiting patiently to mine to be shipped, upgrading from Index too. How is the FOV compared to it? and the weight? did you get the LH faceplate to use the tracking and the great controllers? ty in advance.
@@ekaitzmorales3532 FOV is really good. But that being said from my usage it kinda puts you close to the lenses. But the FOV is really nice. (like Wider and Horizontal than the Index) Weight: I personally thought it would be lighter feel than the 8K X but it somehow feels similar in a way. That being said you can still feel the weight of the headset, but I'm gonna try to adapt the way they want you to mount the headset. Since I used to do another method on the Index. (Its gonna take bit of time to get used to the new method of the strap) I got the headset with inside tracking with controllers. But i also got the Faceplate, Top Strap, DMAS all reserved for it. So i could test all things with its main inside tracking, as well the faceplate. Using DMAS is a Must from my use since being used to the Index Over Ear Speakers. I would also reccomend to get Studioform for the Facial stuff as well the comfort strap, like the spacers and what not. (Its better off having it just incase). I'm waiting for mine to come in this week and hopefully it would make things alot better, along with Comfort. Of course my headshape isnt big its average and i needed the Top Strap to get things balanced on my head, than just the Pimax Elastic Strap alone. On the Light house Plate, you may have to look into the Discord "Tools and Tips" and one of them discuss of a issue on the LH Faceplate that it kinda has with it loosing tracking abit. I did the tweaking as been said and it improved it much better on the Signal placements. Overall I love the headset, but im gonna hope when I get the Studio Form stuff it would make it much more comfortable. Microphone aside, I kinda found out to disable Enhancements in Windows itself (on the Mic), Increase the volume to 60% or such. Always check to be sure the Enhancement is disabled (when either you take the USB cable out and in of the computer for the headset) But i do hope they make the mic better but it sounded much better atm compared to its default state that they left it on.
Latest update of Pimax is extremely stable and with AutoFPS, the visual quality is insane. I LOVE this headset. Flying has never been so real in a flight simulator. Sweet spot is amazing big.
I ordered back in mid April with your affiliate code. Still waiting while all the reviewers get to enjoy their headsets free of charge. Pimax is a perpetual kickstarter company at this point. This headset was basically off the shelf parts and it’s still a several month ordeal. By the time the headsets get to normal peasants like ourselves it’ll be outdated. Frustrating to say the least. It’s obvious whenever they make an announcement on a new product they have absolutely nothing lined up to fill orders. It’s all thrown together once they see the reviews trickle in. A real company would design a headset and actually have production in place at announcement time
Yeah I'm going with the light. I've had the G2 since the first week it came out. It has been a really good headset. I have $3k to pay off first and then I am going to get the MOZA FFB base first and when I get that paid off the Crystal Light will be next. I will be using your link Steve when I do.
I am still waiting for my crystal light for almost a month now....🤔 Hope that pimax deliver soon. Thanks for your videos.👍🤩 That helps me alot to choose the right things for my own flightsim projekt. Soon it will be completed.🤩
I hope you receive yours soon. I remember warning people to pre order as soon as possible, because I had a feeling this would occur. Thanks for watching and for supporting the channel. Best wishes.
Okay, you got me. Just ordered it, using your link of course. I wanted to wait till I get my Aero sold (which is kinda hard now that the crystal light is on the market 😅), but after I saw the delivery time on the crystal light, I didn't want to wait much longer. Imagine MSFS 2024 being released and you haven't got a VR Headset at home! My bank account isn't gonna like this though, as I already pre-ordered the Moza AB9 Base last friday 😬
Congrats on your new Crystal Light! I really hope you are not waiting too long, but as you say, being caught without a VR headset for MSFS 2024 would be baaaad haha. Best of luck with the Aero sale.
Great summary. Guess you've convinced me. My Reverb G2 has been a good friend with all its quirks. But the crystal light is a clear choice. I have a 4080 ( yeah I know) but I think it'll handle the light's resolution ok
Waiting for Amazon UK headsets so I have a decent return process. Yes it may be a while but takes the stress out of the whole process. It is Pimax after all....
One think that no one comment is that Primax offer just 1 year warranty for 1000 Euro (incl. taxes) product . This is not acceptable, but people dont have many options for good pcvr and dont even care. Its even not legal in EU to offer warranty under 2 years. Its basically 1000 euro disposable product . I hope after meta open they os for third party big players like asus or lenovo will come up with competitive products Comming from the hp reverb G2 v2 that have overheating problems after 1 year and a half moderate use.
Greetings from Okinawa. I currently have a Alienware M18 R2, 32 gig of ram, NVidea 4880, and a reverb g2. I'm interested in hearing from laptop users like myself, who are lucky enough to have a Chrystal Light, and any connection issues that you have encountered with your headset. I've watched all of the unboxing videos, but nobody has mentioned if the headset comes with a display port 1.4 to mini display port adapter, as many laptops do not have a full display port. If it does not, any recommendations as to which one I should buy? HL
Question: I just found out I can hire a Pimax Crystal. Will using it on my system give me a good idea how the Light will perform also? is it a 1:1 or are there other factors going on?
Although my Pimax worked out of thee box, im now having major issues with the software freezing my entire system when activated. Pretty much an expensive black lump of fancy plastic at this point.
@@ChrisM541 Hate to tell you this, but I'm not advertising for them, I'm telling my subs my experiences with the headset and it's up to you whether you go for it, based on my real world experiences. In other words, I'm not here to sell it, I'm here to give you my opinion.
@@ChrisM541they aren't advertising they're breaking down the tech and comparing it. If it doesn't work for you it doesn't work for you sadly. You should be quite capable of knowing where you fit without them explaining everything to you.
Thank you , I love all your reviews , especialy your VR ones, a Question for you , Next year I,m hopeing to get a 5090 RTX and Luna Lake CPU, I use HP reverb 2 and a Varjo VR headsets . Are the Wireless VR heatsets any good or are they just unpractable ?
Thankyou 😊 If you want the best image quality, especially for flight simulation, the best way to go is a native Display Port connection, since the image is much cleaner, sharper and free from compression and / or artefacts.
As soon as I can get a 5090. I currently prefer pankcake over VR in MSFS because on my 4080 I have to turn down the graphics settings so much that 4K OLED simply looks way, way better.
@@VRFlightSimGuy No, just the Reverb G2. I can use Ultra settings in 2D and with frame generation it’s buttery smooth and looks amazing. With the G2 at native resolution it looks blocky, washed out, and on top of that I have to lower the graphics settings down from Ultra, and can’t use FG.
Does it have a working reprojection and 22,5hz mode? After using both Oculus and G2 which have a superb reprojection I can't see myself going back to poor graphics and stuttering fps.
Hello Flight Sim Guy, I have a question. I have read from many people that there are a lot of problems with the Crystal Light, especially when it comes to the software. But I saw (also in your video) that it is now so good that it is almost plug and play to put the Crystal into operation? Can you confirm this? Many thanks....kind regards, Sandro
Even though I did not get the chance to actualy try it on, I am very much looking forward to finalizing the order and taking delivery of the Crystal Light. My mind is made up. This is my replacement for the Reverb G2.
I bought a Quest 3 to replace my G2 (which I was loving, but the cable died, and since HP isn't making more, well I was shit outta luck), and kinda kicking myself for not waiting a few more months before I bought the Q3...while as a standalone headset it's BRILLIANT. But for PCVR, I have issues with it, and the image just isn't as nice as the G2 was. The Crystal Light looks neat, and hopefully is a good successor to the G2.
I Understand your reasoning for suggesting the regular Crystal for DCS but surely the Light is still a good replacement for the G2 given there's very little else comparable in price? What if I had a similar hi-spec Stormforce PC like yours? If HP had brought out a G3 with the same specs/price as the Crystal Light I'm sure we would be raving about it?
I've had received mine 5 days ago and, I must say, the visuals are outstanding but the audio is a complete garbage. It sounds like a speaker inside a can. I understand now why Pimax sent the headsets with Dmax speakers to all reviewers. I don't understand why they put the customers in that commercial trap. Now, we are forced to spend another hundred dollars to have a decent sound.
Congrats on the new Crystal, I did warn everyone on all my videos to go for the DMAS if you can afford it. Thankfully, the headset is modular, so you can upgrade it.
@@VRFlightSimGuy Yes, I am aware that you have warned about the poor audio quality and it is precisely because of your honesty that I follow your channel. However, in my naivety I thought: How bad can the original audio be? Well, it's pretty bad.
Iv seen reviews me tonight distortion due to the lenses.. I myself have seen it in the crystal where even in the sweet spot you get distortion in peripheral view things kinda puff out.. feels kinds weird and definitely immersion breaking.. has this improved since xmas period do you think or is it just due to the lenses?
Hi steve, my G2 got sun damaged so Im looking to get the crystal light but I dont want to upgrade my gpu (3080 12vram) do you recommend the crystal or the Q3 with a 3080?
Sorry to hear that. I haven't used the Crystal Light with a 3080, so I can't say for sure sorry. But with the lower refresh rate options and scalability that I mentioned in the video, together with better performance in MSFS 2024, I'm sure it's doable.
Another great video Steve! My thoughts are the Light will be fine for MSFS which I spent 80% in and 20% DCS. That said, with incoming upgrades for hardware ill wait for the full bells and whisles VR Headset with mixed reality! I believe in the next 2 years we will see some fantastic equipment coming! When it comes to DCS ill just train on the Crystal Light and I once i fill proficient ill step up in VR headsets. It is really hard to justify high price of the top dog headsets when all im really needing is instrument clarity and decent outside views for the VR Experience. Right now I feel the Crystal may do that? I will admit i have purposly avoided Primax since they have been around. What caught my attention tis time is price and what you get for that! Like everyone else its judt a waiting game for now as i order early June 2024. Steve do you have a Primax Crystal settings video, yours looks so good!
I’ve been waiting for the 15mm face cover to be in stock, as I understand it, it’s needed for prescription lens inserts. In the mean while although not as assumably critical the DMAS speakers are also unavailable. Judging by Pimax’s production, it looks like maybe some time next year to even consider a owning one. Regardless, great info in your videos.
I love the clarity but the heat inside is stifling. It’s no good being able to wear it for long periods if you can’t because of the heat on your forehead. What a shame…. The q3 bobovr cooling head strap on the q3 was brilliant but the battery was always naff. There’s always a downside 😢
Hi Steve. Please, help me. I have the Quest 3. If I decide to go for the Crystal Light do I have to buy Pimax´s controllers or Quest´s controllers works fine with the Crystal?
Fun to see you fly in the VL-3 the only plane I've flown IRL (lucky me) but in VR I'm very tempted to hit buy on the Crystal Light with local dimming & Dmas headset speakers but does it work on AMD GPU's the only GPU that my wallet can handle... Once I go for my HP G2 upgrade I'll go for the Pimax Crystal light 4 sure.
Great video! One question: Is it possible to dial down the display brightness of the Pimax Crystal Light? I have a light sensivity, so super bright displays are an issue for me. Can I change the brightness (and maybe also contrast) of the display? Like with a normal 2D monitor? Or is the brightness fixed and can not be changed in any way? And if it can be changed: by how many %? Thanks a lot
@@VRFlightSimGuy Awesome, thank you! Ok so but it's also possible without the Open XR Toolkit? Just assuming maybe that tool won't be avalible or won't work in the future for whatever reason. So the brightness can be adjusted even in the native Pimax app or on the device itself?
Hey Steve. As always, awesome work from you. Regarding downscaling... would you be so kind and tell us explicitly which settings you have in the crystal App (resolution) and in Open XR toolkit? This would be awesome ;) by the way, I am using a 4080 super. Thanks a lot my friend. Best, Tom
Cheers Tom much appreciated. Working on a setting guide which will be on the channel soon. I'd recommend using the override feature in the Open XR toolkit, or, setting 'custom' and running at around 0.75 in the Pimax Play software.
@@VRFlightSimGuy awesome, thx. Thats what I‘ve approx estimated. Will try. By the way, compared to the Bigscreen Beyond, they are worlds in between regarding visuals (glare is just unexeptable for me forva headset that pricy, sweetspot not comparable….etc). You mentioned all of it and just absolutely true! Keep going 💪👍
I truly do not know how you think this headset fits good out of the box; I've not heard of anyone including myself that hasn't had to buy the Studioform kit and shim this thing, which for me took 4 of them to get it to fit somewhat comfortable without huge gaps on the sides leaking light. And I don't have a really narrow face, but with all the shims in place it's now somewhat acceptable, but nowhere near as good as the G2 or the Quest 2. Clarity is I will agree very impressive, but now Pimax Play is crashing my apps for some reason, so it should be fun trying to troubleshoot that.
My Discord and VR Facebook group is full of people who find it very comfortable, but like a pair of shoes, comfort is very personal. I used Studioform balancer kits on the standard Crystal with the battery, alongside many other headsets, but I don't personally feel the need with the Light.
DCS players swear by quad views with eye tracking, but imo, the light is the better headset. Cheaper, lighter, no batteries, settle for fixed foveated rendering if you must.
@@pondracek I do like the thought of no batteries and lighter weight. How does the fixed foveated rendering work exactly? Is it better resolution in a smaller area?
Foveated rendering means that you have a central high resolution area surrounded by low resolution areas to save on render resources. When you combine it with eye tracking, the high resolution area follows your eye, so it's promising better graphics for less compute and an inability to recognise the lower resolution because your eye has different acuities from the center to the edges as well. Fixed foveated rendering is when the eye tracking is missing, so the high resolution area is simply always in the middle. So you have to turn your head to read a gauge rather than just look. In general, you don't want to sacrifice anywhere near as large an area with this approach either, which means less resources saved. In my opinion, the advantages of foveated rendering have been greatly overstated. The center of your eye is the highest resolution vision you have, but the edges are more sensitive to movement (and have better night vision, where the center has better colour perception; rods VS cones). VR has awful aliasing problems already, and when you reduce the resolution, you just get a shimmering mess everywhere where you're most sensitive to the shimmering, and this has *always* irritated me about foveated rendering.
@@pondracekI play dcs in VR. There is nothing more immersive than VR. Even with quad screen and eye tracking this is not immersive at all. No 3d, depth feeling. And moving eyes or head to move picture on a screen is not realistic to me ..
Sorry, can't do it. The demonstrations of SimXR, allowing users to clearly see their controls while in VR, are simply too compelling. I've deferred VR for 2-3 years because I cannot envision flight simming without seeing my controls. Now, with SimXR and a Quest 3, that IS possible, but it's not on the Crystal Light, because it has only rudimentary, low-spec passthrough and is incompatible with Virtual Desktop on which SimXR depends. 3 years; still waiting
@@VRFlightSimGuyyea I fly in DCS and have a 4070ti so the dynamic foveated rendering is of big interest to me. Might just add evetrackvr to my Q3 for now.
My head set came last week, I tried it out and almost cried... The quest 3 is producing better graphics at the moment so I need to learn how to tweak it (If i keep it)... my other issue is I have a small head and found the Pimax is too large for my face it leaks light and most uncomfortable on the cheek bones... I'm seriously considering returning it and go for the Bigscreen Beyond......
Regarding the cheek bones, a comfort strap may help with that. From what I've heard, the comfort top strap made by Pimax doesn't fit the bigger top strap of the Crystal Light. Studioform Creative however makes one called the apache comfort strap that should work just fine. I use one on my Crystal and it helps lighten the weight off your face, including the cheek bones. It's odd that you're not seeing a better picture than the quest 3. Double check the resolution you're using. Also make sure you're in the sweet spot. To do this with aspheric lenses you need to look for geometric distortion (warping of the image), typically towards the sides of the lenses. To best see them you need to move your head while watching the picture with your eyes. Try moving the headset up and down on your face as well as adjusting the IPD until you get it to where you have the least amount of warping. If that doesn't work then the only other thing I can think of is the 1m focal distance of the lenses may make it a little hard for some people to focus. If you're wearing glasses and they're set for something closer to 3m focus distance then you might have a little difficulty focusing. You can try prescription lenses with a prescription adjusted by your optometrist for 1m. Then finally the last and probably most likely reason you're not seeing a good picture is due to defective lenses. It's not unheard of with Pimax sadly. In that case reach out to Pimax. Be aware their support can take a while.
@@wittyname-sy5je Thanks for that, but I started the return process now... I really did want it to be the best headset I've ever had, but its not for me :( I've lost half my body weight this year due to illness and maybe that's why it's too large for my face....
@@user-mz1su7nu5n With my Crystal the headset had a lot of room around the sides of my face. Using velcro spacers can help get the headset fitting right. But if you're not getting a good picture after moving it around then you've probably got bad lenses. The Bigscreen Beyond will probably fit your face better due to the facial scan but keep in mind some people are not as satisfied with theirs due to less edge to edge clarity and glare in some scenes. But it's worth giving them a shot, especially if you've already got base stations. The only other high-end headset I can think of right now is the VR1 which is more than twice the price and reportedly very front heavy. But if you get the base model with nothing equipped it probably won't be as bad. I'm holding out hope EyeTrackVR can get dynamic foveated rendering working as that could potentially yield an option for Crystal Light users as well as a low-cost alternative for the VR1 (instead of 600 euros currently). Best of luck with whatever you end up doing.
Lack of battery is a good and a bad thing as well. It also means there is no way to have it wireless. My quest 2 I use it wireless even when I am in front of my computer for the freedom to not have a cable when I move, reach controls, things like that. And when I want to play other games, having it wireless is very convenient...
@@VRFlightSimGuy indeed but even when I do flight sims or race sims I prefer not having a wire around :) and I can't afford two VR headsets of same generation.
