Hello everyone, is me again! the random solo indie vr developer on a budget!
The price of the pimax went down even further so after some more research I decided to take the risk and spend all I could on a nice 1080 msi gpu and a pimax 4k (total cost around 900 euros inclidung shipping and extra stick of 8gm ram) I could not afford any other hmd so I can not make any comparison but overall I am very happy with the device.
Most important aspects are the AMAZING 2560x1440 resolution (next to zero SDE! @60 hz tho) of the display and his out of the box full compatibility with steamvr and Unreal engine( 4.15 working great with steamvr pluggin). So all my fears of getting the chinese sdk to work and read the gyroscopes data and all that stuff has been taken care of already to my great relief and joy!
Main focus of my research will be now to really optimize my work for that demanding of a resolution. It will be good practice I guess, cose this device is a glimpse of the challange of what next gen VR will bring and I think me and any other VR developer will have to master any trick available to keep those fps above the refresh rate all the time. On the other side, if it works on this device, any project will run super smooth at lower resolution of any other current hmd pc setup!
Once again eveerything works so far better than expected. The best version of the device drivers is the 1.1.92 I belive. Atm any newer version has some kind of reprojection issue that causes lesser visual quality so keep that in mind if you go for this device, not to let the drivers update past that version and you are good to go!
Good luck everyone and thanks to Epic for all the efforts, hopefully some day I ll be able to give something back!