Elevate Your Virtual Experience: Discover the Pimax Crystal Light Prime PCVR Headset with Stunning 8K Clarity and Ultimate Comfort!

8 reviews for Elevate Your Virtual Experience: Discover the Pimax Crystal Light Prime PCVR Headset with Stunning 8K Clarity and Ultimate Comfort!

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   Technocrafts – 29/04/2025

   Flight Sim VR
   Pimax created this simplified version of their standalone offering by removing some of the extras, like onboard battery, eye tracking, etc. to make it more affordable for those who intend to use it seated at their computer desk for flight simulators and racing games. Their advertisement and product description clearly reflects on that and surely, they are spot on, everything about this headset as advertised.The Crystal Light retained the original Crystal’s super high resolution and high-quality display. It is somewhat disappointing that they are charging extra for the software, but once installed and the VR headset initialize, it is ready to go! The game controllers aren’t really needed for flight sim, but they are very easy to set up and can be useful time to time, while can be turned off at any time. During the initial setup, it is recommended to charge them right away before the setup is completed, in case one chooses to use them right away. For seated applications like flight simming, I recommend disabling the safety boundary by unselecting the “Activating Chaperone” feature in the Device Settings/Advanced. With that feature selected, the headset will keep turning on the see trough screen and safety boundary lost error every time the headset is removed and placed on the desk. Very annoying, because one cannot select another flight and continue with the gaming session without exiting the game and recalibrate the room setting. That’s something to beware of. Otherwise, the software is fantastic, very simple and easy to use, and includes their own version of built in Open XR. I must say it does worth the extra, if they keep on maintaining it.The performance enhancing features work great, fixed foveated rendering greatly reduces processing load, and the lack of eye tracking probably won’t affect most of the users, while also eliminates some extra burden of processing. I expected a serious performance hit coming from the HP Reverb G2, but to my surprise, it was the other way around, I noticed a slight increase in the frame rate, while sharpness and clarity blew me away. I surely did not expect that level of upgrade in performance, The Reverb G2 is known for its incredible image. The mild screen door effect of the G2 completely disappeared From the Crystal light, colors and brightness are eye candy. I tried the “smart smoothing” feature enabled from Device Setting/Games, also works as expected, but I did not gain enough boost to keep the feature enabled. For fast aircrafts Like the Daher TBM930, Pilatus PC-21 trainer, fighter jects or choppers it worth enabling smart smoothing over busy terrain at very low attitudes, but for normal flights, for maximum clarity and sharpness, better leave it off.As far as comfort, this unit is a mixed bag. It is incredibly big, almost intimidating, and covers one’s entire face! Because it covers my nose as well, it tends to fog up very easily, and I have to remove the headset several times to clear it out, until it warms up enough to eliminate fogging. It takes lots of attempt of adjustment to make it the most comfortable, and once that’s done, it can be worn for hours without much of any discomfort. The 120 Hz refresh rate is a Godsent. It took me a year to be able to use the Reverb when I started, I was hit with motion sickness so powerful that I felt sick even the next day. The high refresh rate of the Crystal Light helps to completely eliminate any residues that I still suffered occasionally time to time, when simulated real time weather conditions and some turbulence effects. While not a perfect product, the team’s attempt and effort to fill the void Micro$oft left in the wake of deprecating its own VR portal, is greatly appreciated. Hopefully they will be successful and are here to stay. I cannot recommend this headset strongly enough for other potential armchair pilots, who are looking for superhigh resolution crystal clear VR solution to upgrade their existing deprecated ones or just getting ready to immerse into the VR flight realm for the first time, without mortgaging their homes for a Somnium VR1 or other super expen$ive units out there. The seamlessly working standalone software independent from Steam VR (though it is supported and featured if one chooses to install it) and any other standard platforms, plus the solid performance of the VR headset with incredibly stable tracking is difficult, if not impossible to beat at this price point! Kudos to the team at Pimax for their work and dedication!

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   Christopher M Swank – 29/04/2025

   Whoops!
   Presumably the product is fine, if you receive one that is working. (I’d be interested in that probability if anyone knows.)Unfortunately, I had a hardware issue with the headset where the lower half of the left display was discolored and would drop pixels or show them as a primary color that was glaring. If you don’t spend hours a day in VR, then fyi if one eye is malfunctioning its distracting and annoying at least, but at times nauseating. It worked pretty good other than that. Except I had an issue with beat saber not respecting my head position. This was almost certainly software related, I never got far enough to fix this beat saber bug due to the hardware issues.After about a month of somewhat stressful (hilarious in hind sight) interactions with numerous customer service representatives I was issued a RMA. If there is a hardware issue, Pimax can really only communicate one message a day, unless you are willing to switch to China’s timezone. Also, at first, the tech support would show up in my e-mail, but if I responded by e-mail the message was not delivered, I had to use the support forum, this furthered the delay. I believe this issue has been fixed and an e-mail reply will reach tech support at this time.Communication was difficult in general, and due to the slow pace of interactions it took a month for something that should have taken a few days maybe a week. Then when they gave me the return label, it was wrong, the destination was my house, at this point it was over a month from the purchase.I had gotten in the habit of calling Amazon support first and then conference with Pimax and Amazon support. This tended to help communications and it was the 4th time I had contacted Amazon support to help with Pimax support. This time around the Amazon representative allowed a refund prior to conferencing with Pimax. Its not clear how Amazon allowed this, the first 3 times Amazon insisted that I go through Pimax, which I was fine with at first. Maybe if enough grief is experienced by the customer Amazon will let you go through them? Whatever the case, I jumped at the opportunity because the progress with Pimax was excruciatingly slow, and showed no sign of improving.In theory, I really like the idea of a independent high tech VR company, and I would really like to see a company like this succeed. I don’t especially like giving a bad review, but I paid a bunch for this headset and I expect it to work as advertised, when it didn’t work correctly the path was long a narrow.If I got a TV and 1/4 of the pixels were bad and would display bad colors and dropped pixels, I would hope the return process wouldn’t take longer than a month. It was over a month and I hadn’t even shipped it back yet. Who knows how long the total process would take, and if it would have gone smoothly. With so many goofball mistakes its hard for me to believe that none of them were on purpose, this would allow them to draw out the time of the return improving the bottom line. This is purely speculation on my part, maybe the support staff is just really bad at their jobs.Supporting Pimax seemed fine at first, but I’d rather not subsidize them. Good thing I bought it through Amazon despite the sharp price difference from the Pimax website. It might make you wonder, why is Amazon priced so much higher? I know why.

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   Octav – 29/04/2025

   Amazing Visuals, Perfect for Simulators
   Don’t believe the haters! I’m SERIOUSLY impressed with this headset. The image quality is fantastic – huge resolution, awesome lens, vibrant colors, and with zero screen-door effect. The wide field of view makes everything feel incredibly immersive, especially in simulators, and the high resolution makes a huge difference if you have the hardware to push all those pixels.Yes, it’s a bit on the heavier and bulky side, but honestly, that doesn’t matter much when playing seated games like flight or racing sims. And there are various mods to make it significantly more comfortable! You can’t really get all these specs and in particular the huge, excellent lens, without the slight bulkiness.For the level of visual clarity you get, it’s absolutely worth it. Easy 5 stars!

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   C.M Johansson – 29/04/2025

   It requires a little bit of setting up but once done very easy to use. It’s an amazing piece and no issues at all. However my fiancé feels it’s a bit too heavy, but for me it’s perfect. Using it for Sim gaming and VR gaming. Crisp graphics but keep in mind that maxing out its resolution is incredibly demanding since it’s 8k. Easily 5/5.Do keep in mind that it requires an additional one time payment of around 200 euro, or 24 smaller monthly payments to fully unlock. But the quality is great, even the basic sound is not bad, however I will be switching over to my earbuds instead as they are far superior. Headphones will not fit well over this headset, keep that in mind as well.

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   Kevinm – 29/04/2025

   Great product. Very clear works well with vive controllers.

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   fmjgdk001 – 29/04/2025

   筆者は無印viveからの乗り換え。現状、自身のPC構成(gtx1080/i7-9700K)では最高画質でスムーズなプレイができているわけではないので限定的なレビューになる。要約すると良い点・液晶による高精細・他にはない高視野角(素晴らしい。世界が変わる！)・目立ちにくい縦横のスクリーンドア(網目)悪い点・当たり前だが要求スペックが高いこと・少し薄めの色合い(気になる人は気になるかも)・アイドル時の謎惑星以下詳細なレビュー↓・外観などについて　外観はややチープ。落としたら盛大に壊れそうに思う。装着感については標準ストラップのhtc viveと同程度に感じる。大きめの眼鏡だが無理なく装着できた。ACアダプターも一昔前のおもちゃ用のようなつるっとした質感の物がついてきて、細かいところでコストダウンを図っているなという印象。ただ、一番大事なHMD用USB&Displayportの線などはしっかりとしたもののようだ。・映り方について　画質：画質設定を下げた状態でもそれなりに高精細に見える。流石に遠景などは少々ギザギザ感が出るが、初代vive等の第一世代と比べるともちろん細かい部分まで視認できる仕上がりになっている。もしも良いGPUを積んでいるならより高精細に見えるかもしれない。視野角：文句なしに最高。素晴らしい。このためだけに買う価値は絶対にある。真後ろのキャラクターを見るのに180度回転せずとも100度ほどの回転から横目で見えるのには感動した！しかし、最大視野角設定にするとかなりPCに無理をさせることになるので、PCによっては大変かもしれない。世界が変わることは確実。端のゆがみもそんなに感じられない(眼鏡ユーザーなのでそもそもレンズがない部分をそんなに横眼で見ないのもあるかも)色合い：液晶モデルという事で確実に色は薄いものの、個人的には許容範囲。専用ソフトで色調補正ができるのもあり、こだわらない限りあまり問題がなく思う。悪く言うなら迫力不足、良く言うなら目にやさしくて疲れにくい感じ。スクリーンドア(網目)：有機ELの斜め網目から液晶の横網目になった。もちろんゼロにはなっていないがかなり少ないと思う。液晶の横網目になったことで一つ一つのドットが四角くなり、遠景の小さいオブジェクトだと四角いちらつきやピクセル感が出てくるが、ここは正直好みの問題かもしれない。自分は斜め網より好きなので満足。・接続などその他接続はもともとvive環境なら簡単ですぐ移行できるように思う。初回、USBドライバのインストールが上手くいかなかったようで一度ドライバを削除してから再接続したが、その後は問題なく動いている。PCのスリープ後などに認識されなくなった場合はタスクマネージャーからPiServiceLauncherを再起動すると再認識されるようだ。ここは少々めんどくさい。アイドル時に表示されるpimaxオリジナルの謎惑星が妙に重く、アイドルさせながらの作業がしにくいのが難点。これは何らかの方法で表示を切るか、さっさとsteamVRをつけるしかなさそうでちょっと不満。・まとめ長々と書いてしまったが、タイトルにある通り大満足。本当に素晴らしい！の一言で、買って良かったと思っている。何よりもこの高視野角は他では味わえない特権、どうあれ価値ある買い物になると思う。

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   Ciro – 29/04/2025

   È un ottimo prodotto ma purtroppo deve funzionare con un pc potente cosa che io non hoAvrei dovuto prenderne uno che per me è troppo costoso.

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   simon andrew bailey – 29/04/2025

   Had this just over a day and wow very impressed with it.I own the hp reverb g2 and this is miles better.I saw a few reviews about lens issues etc but mine seem to be ok love the clarity of the image.Not tested it yet on my simracing yet but can’t wait to try it on it.It more comfortable than I was led to believe by some reviews but not had it on for more than an hour.But no issues for me upto now very happy.