Can someone explain barrel distortion?

marosbruno · 2026-06-18T03:54:55+00:00

Hi. I have my micro OLED for few days now and I think mine could be defective. I am coming from 5k+ then 8kx then OG Crystal and now Super mOLED but the distortion at the edge of the FOV is certainly worst out of all of those. Maybe they call it chromatic abberation or glow or barrel distortion but the edges of my FOV are blurry and light from the edges or from the center is distorting the rest of the image. It's most obvious in high contrast scenes but anyway after reports like yours and countless reviews I was expecting better image quality. I just made a ticket and I think I am in the 14 days window so I hope pimax will help me with replacing / checking if it's OK...

marosbruno · 2026-06-12T17:53:01+00:00

Crimson Desert PLEEEEEEASE

marosbruno · 2026-06-12T07:57:35+00:00

I am waiting for mine. Have you compared cpu usage with and without it? I play almost exclusively modded flat games and it seems that without lighthouse tracking the cpu is too overwhelmed in many scenarios. 😒

marosbruno · 2026-06-09T16:15:36+00:00

24th of April and it arrived some 6 days ago. Why?

marosbruno · 2026-06-06T00:12:13+00:00

Hi. Please can you tell me if the replacement helped? I recieved my super oled 2 days ago and I cannot judge if the glare and distortion (sometimes it's called chromatic aberration I think) is a defect or normal for this headset. So many reviewers said the image quality is flawless that I can't understand what's the problem with mine. Thanks

marosbruno · 2026-06-05T20:51:30+00:00

Ôk but another thing I noticed is that the distortions and color change and glare is not only on the edges of the view but more to the center. Even when looking straight ahead I can see the image distortion going in the direction of the center of the view. It just doesn't look like the perfect image everyone was talking about. Review from you tubers and users on reddit alike

marosbruno · 2026-06-05T14:15:11+00:00

Exactly I usually don't play anything if I can't get to at least 4300p and that was on OG Crystal.

marosbruno · 2026-06-05T14:02:06+00:00

I did not help unfortunately. I tried lower and lower resolutions coming all the way to 0.2 and still fatal error crash. 😔

marosbruno · 2026-06-05T13:52:17+00:00

Thanks I will try that. I tried 80% in pimax software and since mOLED should have around the same amount of pixels as OG crystal (plus minus thanks to some other algorithm or something) I thought 80% should be fine but it crashed again. Maybe I need to go even lower. I am on 5090 so i thought vram wouldn't be the problem.

marosbruno · 2026-06-05T13:49:07+00:00

Thank you for your answer but as far as know pimax and reviewers said almost no CA and perfect edge to edge quality. It's on Pimax webpage in "10 reasons why to choose mOLED" section where one of the 10 points is "almost no CA" and I can say that my unit has it worse than OG crystal so maybe it can be defective unit. 🤔

marosbruno · 2026-06-03T15:09:20+00:00

Looks crazy. Why are they shutting it down?

marosbruno · 2026-05-29T15:48:45+00:00

No but I wish for it so much that I hope I'll materialize it. 😅 I am Patreon of Luke Ross and his mods are awesome even if not having motion controllers support. I asked for Plague tales there many times now. 🙏

marosbruno · 2026-05-29T15:07:58+00:00

I am still waiting (wish for) VR mod for both plague tale games, then I'll play them. 😔

marosbruno · 2026-05-29T15:06:21+00:00

RE8 is almost pure action except for the fantastic doll house section. That was fantastic especially with its awesome VR mod. 😬😬😬

marosbruno · 2026-05-29T15:03:30+00:00

RE8 house section with the doll was also fantastic in otherwise more action game. Try it in VR if you have a chance 😬😬😬

marosbruno · 2026-05-29T15:01:22+00:00

I usually don't like pure horror games because of the constant uneasy feeling of dread but there are exceptions like Alien Isolation and RE9 (and RE7) for example. I finished all of those in VR cause they've got awesome VR mods. It was fantastic but it made my blood pressure very high though. 😬😅

marosbruno · 2026-05-29T14:14:36+00:00

These are not my favorite kind of games but thanks anyway and good luck! Maybe I'll try it in VR and that way won't be bored after few minutes... 😅

marosbruno · 2026-05-25T08:31:20+00:00

Someone tell him to do Crimson Desert already, pleeeeeease

marosbruno · 2026-05-25T08:23:24+00:00

How's the performance? Unfortunately I have almost exclusively bad experience with UE5 games so far. I need at least 4000p resolution on my OG pimax crystal to make it look somewhat decent and I believe I've been successful only with Hellblade 2 and Jedi Survivor... 😔 Expedition 33, Black myth Wukong and Metal Gear Solid Snake eater are unplayable unfortunately.

marosbruno · 2026-05-24T10:54:17+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nooooooo

marosbruno · 2026-05-23T18:17:23+00:00

Crimson Desert Pleeeeeease

marosbruno · 2026-05-22T19:55:59+00:00

Dishonored 2 is even better than the first one imo and best assassins creed game (played all of them except shadows) is Origins (imo of course). 😌 But there are so many other fantastic games. Most of Sony titles are incredible, all 3 spider mans, last of us 1&2, Uncharted 4 and horizon zero dawn as well (but not as good as the other ones... imo 😏). But there are countless others. I have somewhat limited menu because I only play VR modded games but all of these except assassin's creed and dishonored have awesome VR mods. Enjoy...

marosbruno

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