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(Pocket-lint) - Pimax has revealed a caller insane headset that it's moving connected which offers immoderate beauteous unthinkable specs. Those specs see not lone 12K resolution, but besides a 200-degree tract of view, integrated Tobii eye-tracking and overmuch much besides.
As if that wasn't insane capable connected its own, the Pimax Reality 12K QLED VR headset mixes the champion of some worlds with the inclusion of a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset. The institution says that this means it's some susceptible of playing PCVR games and moving successful a standalone manner akin to the Oculus Quest 2.
We were already blown distant by the Pimax 8K X VR which offered up 2 4K displays per eye, present things are acceptable to beryllium adjacent much impressive.
The Pimax Reality 12K QLED VR headset is kicking things up a notched by expanding the solution to 6K per eye. It's said to usage dual 200Hz HDR LCD panels with Mini LED backlighting and a quantum dot layer. This setup should amended the colour scope and marque things adjacent much impressive.
Of course, the erstwhile cutting borderline headsets required a high-end PC successful bid to run, truthful the thought of upping the ante with an adjacent much power-hungry instrumentality is simply a confusing one. However, Pimax says that the inclusion of Tobii eye-tracking and Dynamic Foveated Rendering (DFR) volition assistance with that.
This tech means that lone the things you're looking astatine volition beryllium rendered astatine afloat quality, thereby reducing the unit connected your gaming instrumentality portion you play. And successful turn, this should pb to a amended wide experience.
Additionally, the Pimax Reality 12K QLED VR headset is being crafted with wrong retired tracking capabilities and similar the HTC Vive Cosmos headset, it'll person swappable faceplates for SteamVR tracking and Mixed VR use. So it's multi-functional and should let for a large premix of some standalone wireless state (like the Quest 2) oregon wired high-end PCVR for the precise champion experience.
The different bully quality is if you already ain a Pimax headset, you'll beryllium capable to trade that in for a discount and beryllium enactment connected the precedence database to ain the caller instrumentality too.
If you don't ain one, past the retail terms of $2,399 mightiness enactment you off, but it surely sounds similar it's going to beryllium worthy it. The institution says the headset volition commencement shipping successful Q4 2022, truthful we've got a portion to hold yet, but hopefully it volition beryllium worthy it.
Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 27 October 2021.
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