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This morning I got an email saying its now in done with production and into final inspection. The first email said they expected the HMD to be done with production that week which was the friday the 25th. So apparently it's made it through the assembly line and at least functions well enough to be sent off for final testing. This testing phase has no ETA but they threatened to send an email once completed where they will verify my shipping address.. I'm curious how long this will be.

I placed my order in May and got an email now saying "Based on your order details and our production schedule, your headset is planned to be completed within this week." So sounds like maybe I'll get it in Aug sometime.

Awesome I'm glad its working out for you.

Hows this been working out for you? Is the VR1 going to be something you can use or did it end up being a poor buying decision for you?

when you guys get these things please provide some feedback. There isnt much real world DCS feeback on them yet.

Glad it sounds like its working out for you. My Ipd slider was not an issue.... maybe tape it

I had no luck with openXR it could not even run the DCS menu. I used steam VR and this ran well. eye tracking needs your eyeballs to be very close to the lens. use the heat map to make sure it working as expected. I cant remember if it worked with steam vr anyways I remember never using it because I think its only open XR and would require recal every time I moved the HMD on my face. In order to use any of the functions in the VR1 tool a program must be running so with steam house running or DCS running you can then setup eyetracking calibration and stuff like that. Looks like Somnium got their production speed up. That's good. Is the Image clear?

the contrails are so short this doesnt matter....much

This is looking is a bit slower than expected and I had pretty realistic expectations (I think). I was figuring around Aug for non preorders (like something placed in early may) This seems quite optimistic at this point oct/ nov is probably a safer bet. The Somnium team did a good job of allowing individuals to ride along in the development process and watch as the prototypes moved into production phase and got beat up all along the way by reality. I probably have a bit better understanding of product development than the average person and am quite aware of dev team expectations vs reality and I was very appreciative of the Somnium team to provide as much dev info as they did. It was actually quite interesting to follow along in this process. Im assuming there is nothing like this on the pimax discord correct? Thanks!

got it

If you look at a distant object through the top 1/3 of the image is it then clear? I found I had no issues using the top part of the FOV to look at things but using the center like normal would result in a poor image.

Tacview can add extra load to the cpu and cause inconsistent FPS or an overall reduction in FPS. It has been my personal observation that after DCS went to multicore this is now a non factor and there is no advantage to disabling tacview. But doing so Its not a bad suggestion for a first time startup with Vr, having as few of variables as possible can make any troubleshooting much easier.

Well If you want like a bran new one for probably like half cost that ships monday its still running until 6pm PDT Sunday. You're not the only one bummed out. I knew it would be a dice roll and I had gone into it knowing that it was going to be a long road to get it working well and all the issues ironed out. I did not expect the image to be a problem, For me the center of the FOV is trash, it's blurry and has slight double vision with CA. I can look above the center and use the top 1/3 of the image and that is amazing quality. I could not find a solution to this, I'm assuming it could be corrected with lens inserts but that means I have to figure out which ones to try along with the massive pile of other issues to sort out. I guess I was expecting the image to be motivation to solve the rest of the issues and without that I lost interest pretty quick. I'm assuming that most people will be fine, I'm not sure whats going on with it exactly, I tried to find someone having the same issue I could communicate with but I found no one. I did hear a guy in a video describe and issue something like I'm having but no way to get in touch with him. If the whole image looked like the top 1/3 this would be a solid HMD.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/177146919844

I put my ultimate edition on ebay just now the auction should go live in like 3 hrs if anyone else is brave enough to try it even if its at half cost