evanswillo Posted April 25 Posted April 25 How are we all doing ? I have been using the beta 3.0 some minor issues but at least I am up and flying. AMD 7800X3D, MSI PRO X670-P WIFI (AM5) 64GB RGB DDR5 6000MHz Nvidia 4090 Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 OS build 26100.2605 Nvidia Driver 566.36 HOTAS Virpil CM3 Joystick Throttle & Pedal
Gun Jam Posted April 25 Author Posted April 25 Pretty much gave up on mine. Ill probably sell it. I cant get the center FOV to sharpen up. I kept going back to the G2 thinking I might realize its not better than the Vr1 only to be impressed by how nice it looks each time until i didn't bother to plug the vr1 back in.
eFirehawk Posted April 25 Posted April 25 7 hours ago, evanswillo said: How are we all doing ? I have been using the beta 3.0 some minor issues but at least I am up and flying. Couldn't come into terms with mine and returned it. Focus on both close and far distance felt off, headache inducing and it was also very uncomfortable. Software really wasn't the best either. I will think twice before complaining about Pimax again from now on... 1 Pentium II 233Mhz | 16MB RAM | 14.4kb Modem | 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive | Windows 3.1 with TM Warthog & TrackIR 5
Gun Jam Posted April 26 Author Posted April 26 5 hours ago, eFirehawk said: Couldn't come into terms with mine and returned it. Focus on both close and far distance felt off, headache inducing and it was also very uncomfortable. Software really wasn't the best either. I will think twice before complaining about Pimax again from now on... How were you able to return it? Is that an EU thing? Im in the US
eFirehawk Posted April 26 Posted April 26 6 hours ago, Gun Jam said: How were you able to return it? Is that an EU thing? Im in the US Yeah I'm in the EU. You have 14 days by law to return a product if you're not happy with it - as long as it still looks clean and unused and it's complete of course. 1 Pentium II 233Mhz | 16MB RAM | 14.4kb Modem | 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive | Windows 3.1 with TM Warthog & TrackIR 5
evanswillo Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Ok sad to here your experiences have not met your expectations, so what headset is now your goto daily driver ? AMD 7800X3D, MSI PRO X670-P WIFI (AM5) 64GB RGB DDR5 6000MHz Nvidia 4090 Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 OS build 26100.2605 Nvidia Driver 566.36 HOTAS Virpil CM3 Joystick Throttle & Pedal
Gun Jam Posted April 28 Author Posted April 28 On 4/27/2025 at 5:17 AM, evanswillo said: Ok sad to here your experiences have not met your expectations, so what headset is now your goto daily driver ? Back to the G2. Im investigating the possibility of the Crystal super. It at least has a return policy so if it doesn't work out im not out another 2k
evanswillo Posted April 29 Posted April 29 Been helping some fellow VR1 owners dial in their settings to exploit VR1 under Beta 3.0 good feedback from Somnium team making good progress with openXR. AMD 7800X3D, MSI PRO X670-P WIFI (AM5) 64GB RGB DDR5 6000MHz Nvidia 4090 Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 OS build 26100.2605 Nvidia Driver 566.36 HOTAS Virpil CM3 Joystick Throttle & Pedal
mmike87 Posted Monday at 02:53 AM Posted Monday at 02:53 AM I've been unsuccessful with eye tracking from day one. Calibrations, if I could get them to succeed at all, sometimes took 15 or 20 iterations. Once in game, the performance was terrible and often the eye tracking was jumping all over the place randomly without me changing my gaze. After many hours of troubleshooting with the latest beta 4, I think I found the culprit. My contact lense prescription. I didn't have any issues with eye tracking and my contacts with my Aero. At first I thought it was my multi-focal contacts. Nope, tried a regular fixed-focal set, same result. And, everything was blurry with the fixed focal contacts. Removed contacts entirely. Everything nice and clear. Eye tracking calubrated first try. VR Ootician's web site for prescription inserts states that they "adjust your prescription to be compatible with the VR1." I'm guessing the focal length or whatnot for the VR1 is very short because without any prescription I can't see anything clearly past 24 inches. I had no issues with tracking or clarity with the Aero. But, once calibrated, removing the headset and putting it back on resulted in the crazy, random tracking that basically makes the view seem like it's flickering. I confirmed with the once-again enabled heat map.
Gun Jam Posted Monday at 05:09 PM Author Posted Monday at 05:09 PM 14 hours ago, mmike87 said: I'm guessing the focal length or whatnot for the VR1 is very short because without any prescription I can't see anything clearly past 24 inches. I had no issues with tracking or clarity with the Aero. 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.
evanswillo Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago Just been able to try Beta 4.0, DCS is looking good, Eye Calibration is working with prescription lens inserts now. Checking to see how ET performs. AMD 7800X3D, MSI PRO X670-P WIFI (AM5) 64GB RGB DDR5 6000MHz Nvidia 4090 Windows 11 Home Version 24H2 OS build 26100.2605 Nvidia Driver 566.36 HOTAS Virpil CM3 Joystick Throttle & Pedal
mmike87 Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago (edited) On 6/9/2025 at 1:09 PM, Gun Jam said: 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. I can't see past 24 inches in real life. Everything is clear in the headset other than the fact that I can't get the eye track to to work with whatever my prescription is. Im just nearsighted. Edited 8 hours ago by mmike87
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