Samsung Odyssey - An Elite Player Review - 3/10

loribee

loribee
I owned a Pimax 4k BE Edition (the OLED one) for about 10 months and only sold it recently on craigslist .. I found it to be an amazing headset for Elite - I'm now playing on an Oculus until my 8k rig arrives later this year, and it's definitely a step down for me, but It'll do

I tried an early prototype of the 8k up in San Francisco and I found it to be very comfortable indeed. I do agree with you on the Samsung - I did try one and found it to be horribly uncomfortable. I ended up returning mine after two days because it does not support my IPD (almost, but not quite - which made everything ever-so-slightly out of focus for me)
 

loribee

loribee
Alec Turner said:
Are you long or short sighted? If long sighted (i.e. glasses for reading) then you won't need them (it's a miracle! I can read in VR). If short then small framed glasses will fit inside the headset (my wife needs them) but it can be a bit fiddly getting the headset on and off. Also, be VERY careful that your lenses aren't touching the Rift lenses, otherwise you can scratch them. If it's a major issue for you then VR lens lab sell lens inserts.
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I found it cheaper to 3d-print an insert and then use Zenni.com to get my lenses.
 

Exigeous

Exigeous
loribee said:
I owned a Pimax 4k BE Edition (the OLED one) for about 10 months and only sold it recently on craigslist .. I found it to be an amazing headset for Elite - I'm now playing on an Oculus until my 8k rig arrives later this year, and it's definitely a step down for me, but It'll do

I tried an early prototype of the 8k up in San Francisco and I found it to be very comfortable indeed. I do agree with you on the Samsung - I did try one and found it to be horribly uncomfortable. I ended up returning mine after two days because it does not support my IPD (almost, but not quite - which made everything ever-so-slightly out of focus for me)
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Interesting as I too had the BE for a while and thought it was absolute crap in every way other than resolution to the Rift. And even with the OLED screens to my eyes the colors were very washed out and while yes it was definitely higher resolution SDE was still absolutely visible and god rays were just as bad or worse. It was also, at least to my head, far less comfortable and just felt cheap in every way - especially the incredibly terrible software. Even with the image quality step down when I put my Rift back on it was a far superior experience all around.

Interesting to hear the 8K was comfortable, or at least not uncomfortable. That said I have no confidence at all it will be anything but a POS given their track record and long delay to release - wasn't it supposed to be out in December at the latest? Good they are holding it if it's for quality reasons but at the price they are targeting my guess is it's still gonna be very cheaply made. It'll also be interesting how long it takes Frontier to support the wider FOV properly as so far the way it's stretching things is a non-starter for me.

~X
 
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