Pimax 5K Plus VR Virtual Reality Headset with Wide 200°FOV, Dual 2560x1440p RGB LCD Panels & 6 DOF Tracking, [EU Standard Adapter][Headset Only]

Good FOV, it's fun to play with. The comfort is unfortunately not so good. That should be improved. But you can also buy the COMFORT KIT. The PiTool, a program for the VR pimax, supports steam and oculus games. And it works perfect with my index controllers + base stations.

I really wanted to love this headset as it's a real first for the 170 degrees FOV, however in practice, I found little *real* noticeable difference between 'normal' 150 and 'wide' 170 as they are way out of view in peripheral vision anyway. The worst bit about the field of view thing was, unless I strapped the headset uncomfortably tight to my face with my eyes right up to the screen, the fresnel lenses were completely 'fish-bowl' inverted around the edge which was actually quite distracting. I've come to the conclusion that the Index at 130 FOV is better in both performance and subjective quality. The sense of 'being there' is marred by the low brightness and low contrast panels they have used in the headset. My original VIVE still gives the brightest and most vibrant image, closely followed by my Original Oculus rift. Playing 'face your fears' from the occulus store is basically not feasible as you can see almost nothing in the shadows. The built in gyro/magnetic 3-dof Head tracking works well if you only want to play sims and 'experiences' where hand tracking controllers are not required (Asetto Corsa, DCS, Fantasynth, EPIC showdown etc.) or if you are waiting patiently for the Pimax controllers to be finished. The software is a real cludge, having to hook into Oculus home to use their driver interface to play Robo Recall et al, and not everything works, and you keep having to remove the headset to start external apps using the pi-tool. Same goes for Vive Port and steam apps, which also hook into the oculus software for drivers. VIVE license games from steam. If you start up a game on Vive port infinity, it then goes through steam AND oculus home just to get started. so you end up with 4 task bar programs running just to start something. It's an utter mess tbh. The whole wide field of view is good, but nowhere near worth it for a £1000+ investment. The build of the unit is pretty cheap, flat edges and flimsy plastic, which altogether isn't great on an £800 headset.

I thought I was paying for a top of the line, high quality all encompassing VR system that would take my flight sim game to the next level. What I found was that this plastic, low resolution, ill-equipped experiment is no where near ready to be commercialised. You might want to go for this if you're a rich developer, but for a general consumer such as myself I really would save your money and go buy something thats ready to go. The Pimax comes with nothing, no controllers, no motion stations, is heavy (for a VR set) and uncomfortable after a few minutes of staring at a poor resolution lunar space- as thats all you have unless you down load 3rd party software such as Steam VR. Honestly, I fell for the marketing hype, just don't make the same mistake....! Good luck!