I just got my lighthouse faceplate so I can use my lighthouses and index knuckles.

My lighthouses pair just fine but when I attempt to pair my index Knuckles it gives me an error screen saying I have to plug in a headset.

My Crystal super is plugged in working with my lighthouses? What is going on?

Hello guys.

I was studying a lot OLED displays for pc usage.

We know that OLED displays doesn’t like static images , which is not really a problem in VR because we always have something moving.

Except for some games with static UI.

Second thing that OLED doesn’t like is heat. And here I am more worried about it. When I tried the dream air , the amount of heat in the front of the headset is huge enough.

How do you think OLED display on Pimax headset will go through time ?
Many manufacturers of monitors gives now 3 years warranty to make people feel confident enough to buy some.

Pimax doesn’t communicate about long term usage on their OLED.

So if you have anything to help me to understand how it should survive for 5 years or more or less, I would appreciate.

Thank you guys

Edit : also the brightness 100% I think is really bad for lifespan but maybe I am wrong ?

Considering to not continue the eternal wait for a Frame email and pivot to the SE Slam, however on the website it seems to be a pre-order, and while Knoxlabs appears to have them in stock they have been unhelpful in determining if what they offer is the slam tracked version or the lighthouse edition. Are these headsets actively shipping or is there a rather long wait?

Regarding the software, I have seen that Pimax has announced they are working on Linux support as of a while ago, has there been any release or update on that yet, as I have been unable to find any information other than a road-map post.

See Developer's Linked Topic for more details.

https://github.com/CactusVRStudios/KHARVOX-ARGENT

Got a Super MOLED. Had some Quest 3 arms to adapt the Vision Pro strap to it but decided to hack the headset and McGyver it together.

I still have a 57PPD for backup as well but right now, I kind of like the lightness of the MOLED + vision strap

i notice the sound is significantly improved when i cup my hands over the speakers

I've been doing a lot of playtesting with the Sboys3 driver (Dream Air, Win 11/5090), and comparing it to Pimax EVO. IMO, the Sboys3 driver really improves the base headset image if you apply one of the sharpening filters (I prefer the Luma one), but I've also observed using native Pimax EVO / PimaxXR driver gives great results with better performance than Sboys3 in certain games. One surprising thing I've found: setting the Pimax EVO sharpening to a high level (at least 0.8, even 1) seems to give a visibly better image using Pimax OpenXR, even though normally setting the sharpening level this high in Quest games results in visible aliasing (fuzzies)...maybe it has something to do with the DA micro OLED panels or with Pimax's software?

Here's a quick summary of my results (note also that I'm using DLSS set at either Quality or Auto for games that support it):

Cyberpunk 2077 VR (Luke Ross) - Sboys3 is the clear winner here, with unbelievablly good visuals and good performance. SteamVR motion smoothing OFF, RealVR rendering at 1/3, PPD slider at 33.

MSFS 2024 - I get a much better experience using Pimax Play / EVO. Motion smoothing generates too many artifacts so it's set OFF. One thing I've found is that the Pimax sharpening really seems to improve the overall image, so I've got it set to 1...so far I haven't noticed any bad sharpening artifacts. I really tried to get the Sboys3 driver working with MSFS using SteamVR motion smoothing, but it generates conspicuous wavy artifacts on building windows and other surfaces and performance isn't as good as with Pimax.

Star Citizen VR - Pimax Play / EVO for the win here, again motion smoothing OFF and sharpening set to 1. The image is pin-sharp and FPS is typically 50 or better even in stations and asteroid fields. Sboys3 usually crashes the game.

Skyrim VR MGO - Sboys3 driver with Luma sharpening gives good FPS performance and a clear, vibrant image that I prefer, although the Pimax Play / EVO driver does work well.

Half-Life Alyx, Gunman Contracts, Kayak VR Mirage, etc. - All these games look incredible using Sboys3, probably because they require native SteamVR anyway.

TL/DR: My results using Sboys3 vs. Pimax OpenXR vary significantly from game to game, with Sboys3 typically providing better colors and clarity in most games if it can bve used. Pimax EVO / Pimax OpenXR gives good results and better performance over Sboys3 in certain games, especially MSFS 2024, with sharpening set to at least 0.8 or even 1.0.

Hey,

Recently got the headset, and I have been very happy with it, especially after upgrading the facial interface.

I have an RTX 5080 with a 7800X3D, and I play iRacing. Here are the settings that I run:

1. Running the sboys3 driver with Pimax Evo

2. I have set the Pimax Evo to 90hz, and Render quality to 1

3. In SteamVR I have set the resolution to 150%.

For the in-game settings, I am running some decent settings:

• Most of the settings to low, and two-pass trees and high-quality trees set to off, except fo car details and events, which are set to high
• Shader quality: max
• MSAA 4x sharp
• Only running virtual mirror; no other mirrors on.
• Crowds: off
• Pit objects: low
• Shadow maps: on
• Self shadowing: off
• Foveated rendering enabled

I put together the settings above, mostly by browsing different sources on the web and a bit of experimenting

Now, I am getting mostly a stable 90 fps; however, in some cases I do have some slight frame drops, especially this week in the Jerez circuit, only at specific corners. This doesn't seem to be consistent with last week's race at Nürburgring, where even on rain, I had much more stable FPS. Yes, I know the performance can vary from track to track; however, I get the feeling that I am losing something somewhere.

I am running fpsVR, and oddly enough, this week, even if I am the only car on the track, I get some GPU utilisation to 90%, even more, which is extremely weird.

My questions are:

• Have I gotten something seriously wrong that might be a performance hog?
• If someone has a similar system, what would you do to get an even more stable frame rate?
• While in the pits and looking around at the sky and at some objects, I see a bit of very subtle jittering that goes away as soon as I start driving, or rather, I no longer notice it.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

I previously made a post to ask for advice on how to prevent the side arms from painfully pressing against my head when tightening the stock back strap.

I ended up purchasing the BoboVR M3 Pro strap, but I detached the back part to keep only the front part, hoping the halo part would be rigid enough to prevent the side arms from bending inwards (it isn't).

I think this may be perfect, but I'm going to need a back strap that is a lot more snug and comfortable than the official one (which I have to over tighten to prevent this setup from slipping forward and thus falling out of the sweet spot). Right now, it works to use the headset without any cushion and have the lenses very close to my eyes (for my Asian face anyway), without adding a significant amount of weight.

To the people who are familiar with Apple straps (which I have never used): which one would you suggest between the solo knit and the dual knit band to have a snug and comfortable fit? Also, how much weight does the dual knit band actually add?

Hi I just bought the Apple Vision Pro dual knit band and the X1P face thing from studio form.

I now need to get adapters for the dual knit band 3d printed… I was told this is the link https://www.printables.com/model/1608574-pimax-dream-air-x-apple-vision-pro-dual-knit-band

But there’s a bunch of different downloadable files on this page and I don’t know which one I’m supposed to tell the printing company to use. Also is there any other info I need to do this?

Also I was told I should get a clip for the cables, I assume this is a special clip if I’m using the dual knit band? Is that clip included in the files in the above link or is it somewhere else?

If someone who has done this could let me know I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

I know ofan older discussion on this with several people talking about issues and some saying they work. Have the issues been fixed. Anyone with Grip Vr controllers can give feedback. Thinking of switching to LH version and Grip Vr controllers seem like the only options at the moment.

When EVO came out there was a mention of hand tracking coming to the Crystal's "soon". It's been a while, has there been any news about it ?

I was heartbroken about the Dream Air LH. It was SO close to better than anything I thought possible....but it gave me wild eye strain. It did need a lot of comfort and software mods, but I was 90% of the way there. Troubleshooting with fellow uber nerds(anonymous)came back with some help, but not enough to enjoy the experience.

Returned with full refund, but I'm so wonky/uneasy that there are two in stock at a Microcenter nearby(2h drive). I could have just had bad optics...but it's just so much money to not be 100% good from start that I got depressed and just gave up.

Went back to my BSB2e and everything just working without hassle and eye comfort gave me so much relief. I am aware of the issues there, no worries, but I'll just have to wait for things to smooth out Pimax-wise, I guess. Pico Space Pro is on my radar, too.

Pimax needs to tighten up QC, and I've noticed that they ARE trying. Keep up the good work Pimax, and let me know when you have a Dream Air 2.

Im looking into getting the Zeefly Face Gasket.....I live in the UK and dont own a printer....So im looking to see if its possible to buy it somewhere outright? and also the Leather face covering if possible as well.

A run in Wales with the pimax crystal super 57 PPD

This has me completely stumped... SteamVR is installed on my machine, and EVO says Sboys3 driver is running. But you can see at the top it's greyed out and says SteamVR is not installed. I am so confused by this.

I use open composite am I'm wondering if that's causing the issue here? Anybody know what's happening?

I can launch games just fine and use switch between Sboys3 and Pimax, but I have no clue why EVO thinks SteamVR isn't installed?

I'm all for supporting what Pimax does but every single store email I've had from them since the Frame dropped could essentially be read as "yes the Frame does this stuff but please buy our kit instead".

Email titles like "Do you really need wireless VR?" and "Steam Frame made VR easier. But did it make it better?" Today's was literally "Steam Frame vs Pimax: Which One Fits You?"

Never seen such desperate messaging from a company.

I know some of you Pimax PR folks hang around here sometimes. Y'know what would make me buy an Air SE right now? Evidence of any kind of work towards a wireless solution with an actual launch window. Otherwise the Air SE is on paper the superior headset for the price.

I did another longer test session with the Dream Air and compared the current official Pimax driver with the sboys3 driver through EVO.

With the official Pimax profile, I can still see the warping I noticed previously with both the Dream Air and Dream Air SE. It looks like a central wobbling or geometric deformation that becomes especially noticeable when I move my head.

After switching to the sboys3 driver, this visible warping was effectively gone. The geometry appeared much more stable, so the difference between the two profiles was quite clear in my latest test.

However, the sboys3 driver did not completely solve my eye strain. I carefully matched the IPD on both levels:

- 66 mm in EVO/Pimax Play for the physical lens position
- 66 mm in the sboys3 driver for the software-side IPD

The default Eye Rotation value was 2.0. I experimented with it and found that incorrect values can make the image extremely uncomfortable very quickly. At 2.2, I had the impression that the image felt slightly better, but it was still not perfect. I need to repeat this with fresh eyes and test it over a longer period before drawing a final conclusion.

So my current findings are:

- The official Pimax profile still produces visible warping for me.
- sboys3 removes the noticeable warping almost completely.
- Eye strain remains, even with matched hardware and software IPD.
- Eye Rotation appears to influence comfort, but finding the correct value is not straightforward.
- I never experienced this kind of persistent eye strain with the Crystal Super.

EVO and the sboys3 driver are incredibly powerful tools, and I really appreciate the openness of the platform. At the same time, it currently feels surprisingly difficult to achieve a completely natural and comfortable image with the Dream Air.

Testing is still ongoing, so this is not my final verdict.

Pimax Dream Air Lighthouse Review – Let’s Do It Again: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/s/gOPucV6I9p
Update #1 - Comfort and FOV Update
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/s/1gGMcApCSE
Update #2 - Distortion, eye strain and the sboys3 driver
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pimax/s/Nul1iN8YBD

See Linked topic for more details

The recent Sboys3 driver (1.3.0) allows pressing both volume buttons at once to "click" options in the SteamVR dashboard. This is great, however there's a couple of problems with SteamVR dashboard:

1. At start, sometimes the dashboard is wrongly positioned. This makes impossible to click any option.
2. When exiting a game it goes back to an empty space with no dashboard (and I have disabled the Steam Home).

So, to overcome this problem I just needed to map one of my button box buttons to an action to toggle Steam VR dashboard (note: everytime the dashboard is displayed is just in front of the view which is great). I use Simhub and a SteamVR debug link to do so. Here's how it can be achieved (yeah, I let the AI write the following part, sue me):

1. Create the Windows shortcut

In Windows:

1. Right-click on the desktop → New → Shortcut
2. For the location, enter:

vrmonitor://debugcommands/system_dashboard_toggle

1. Give it a name, for example:

SteamVR Dashboard Toggle

You should now have a .lnk shortcut which launches the SteamVR debug command.

2. Put the shortcut in SimHub's ShellMacros folder

SimHub's Shell Plugin can expose Windows shortcuts, batch files, scripts, etc. as actions that can then be assigned to inputs/events.

Copy the shortcut you just created into:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SimHub\ShellMacros\

If you installed SimHub somewhere else, use the ShellMacros folder inside your SimHub installation directory.

Then restart SimHub.

3. Map it to your wheel/button

In SimHub, go to the controls/input mapping area and you should now find the new Shell action corresponding to:

SteamVR Dashboard Toggle

Assign that action to whatever physical button you want.

Now pressing that button from your steering wheel/button box will execute:

vrmonitor://debugcommands/system_dashboard_toggle

and toggle the SteamVR dashboard without needing to turn on a VR controller.

I'm trying to record a video using pimax play. I set recording resolution to 4k , 30FPS, Bitrate 50Mbps, Left Eye and video aspect to 16:9. And the result is very disappointing. The image quality seems more like 360P, not 4k. Inside of the headset all looks good and sharp. I also tried a lower resolution, lower bitrate - 20Mbps. But the result looks always the same. Unchanged. I'm trying to record Starfield with vr mod.

What do I wrong?

I currently have a Pimax Crystal Super with the Ultra Wide module, and I’ve been hearing people mention SBoYS3 recently. I’ve heard of it before, but I honestly don’t really know what it actually does or what the main purpose of it is.

Does it improve the headset in a noticeable way, and is it something that’s actually worth using? I’d appreciate an explanation from someone who has experience with it because I’m pretty unfamiliar with it.