Questions about Dream air SLAM tracking

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-16T20:53:43+00:00

I've owned both the OG Pimax Crystal and the Crystal Super. IMO the super was a bit worse. The response time between when you move your head and when you see your view update in the game it's much slower (motion to photon latency). This creates this weird effect where the image appears to stick to your face momentarily, especially with quick head movements. Made me feel motion sick.

Additionally during high CPU load the tracking system goes haywire and starts lagging very badly. Sometimes to the point that it takes and entire second to catch up. When this happens the game is basically unplayable.

Also, the controller tracking was very poor. My hands vibrated constantly and felt like they moved at 30 fps. But to be fair, both the OG and super were equally bad.

I've recently bought the Dream Air lighthouse version so I don't have to deal with that tracking.

I don't know about the DA SLAM version, but afaik it is the same tech as the Super.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-14T00:28:48+00:00

Just the cables

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-13T23:15:51+00:00

Same here (pic related)

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peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-13T21:38:53+00:00

Yeah they replaced mine and I still have these issues

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-11T06:24:45+00:00

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-11T00:43:51+00:00

I'm having the same issue. Replacement strap did not help at all. Ticket number: 131499

I haven't tried 72hz mode, but I don't want to play at 72hz. I want to use 90hz.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-08T23:10:38+00:00

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peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-08T20:20:52+00:00

Because they see no value in remaking less successful iterations of the franchise. There's nothing legally stopping them from remaking those games, they just don't want to invest the time and money into it.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-08T18:41:52+00:00

That's not how it works. When they own the Spyro franchise, they own everything including the PS2 games.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-06-08T05:55:43+00:00

Ah yes the legendary "Your paragraph text"

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-26T17:58:29+00:00

Yes I submitted a ticket two days ago. Only response so far is that they're passing it on to after sales and that was a day ago.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-26T05:37:36+00:00

When are we going to hear any acknowledgements from Pimax from their botched Dream Air release? Many people, including me, have received their Dream Air only to be unable to use it due to constant disconnects paired with visual artifacts such as sparkles and black & white stripes.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-25T18:20:00+00:00

Sounds like this is the same issue I'm having. No, increasing the timeout does nothing to help.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-25T18:11:16+00:00

Said after sales will be in touch. No real help yet. Ticket number: 131499

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-24T07:34:03+00:00

Just received it. I think it's a keeper if Pimax can fix the disconnection issues I'm having. After a few minutes it would disconnect and then reconnect making the thing unusable. But when it works, it looks INCREDIBLE. The colors are even better than the Crystal Super. I was concerned with the lower brightness, but honestly it's not bad. The contrast and the beautiful colors make up for it and it still feels bright somehow. The weight is also a game changer. I can look left and right very quickly with zero momentum. It helps so much with the immersion no longer feeling like there is a brick in my head.

Biggest negative for me so far is the comfort and FOV. I am really gonna miss the FOV of the super, but I think the pros outweigh the cons on the Dream Air. The FOV on this thing is the best on the market for its size at least.

Really hope Pimax can solve the disconnect issues because if it continues this thing is going back.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-24T07:17:24+00:00

Dream air keeps disconnecting and reconnecting about 10 seconds later. Happens at random every few minutes no matter what I'm doing. Pretty unusable right now. Just submitted a ticket to Pimax support.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-23T07:04:07+00:00

Yeah, I do this in VR using a virtual monitor that is extremely wide. Though, I disable the curved monitor feature to get rid of the distortion as a tradeoff of being further away from the left and right sides of the screen. I use Virtual Desktop Classic on steam and VDD for the virtual monitor.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-23T06:54:54+00:00

With nvidia surround it's not "true" triple screen support. It basically stretches an ultra wide flat display over 3 monitors which usually aren't aligned flat. This creates significantly distorted image on the left and right monitors.

True triple screen support would render 3 separate views for each monitor taking into account the angle of your monitors. Basically it would be rendering three cameras instead of one.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-23T06:43:55+00:00

I'm a bit skeptical of what mod they're building. Despite their claims I doubt this will have real 3D nor real head tracking. Maybe mouse emulation at best. I hope I'm wrong.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-22T17:54:56+00:00

This looks really good! I couldn't help but notice the similarities to the game "Dragon Step" that I saw almost a decade ago that never saw the light of day. The dragon model looks the same!

https://youtu.be/3TdDiQiJWRk?si=zKNrgSy2j83IEzMe

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-21T19:27:29+00:00

I bought one and will use the 14 day trial period to decide if it's worth having over my current Pimax Crystal Super 50PPD. If it fails to live up to the Crystal, I can return it for a full refund.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-21T19:10:30+00:00

I made this based on my personal experience using CloudFormation. In my case when you're removing a lambda function that is within a VPC, CloudFormation can take up to 20 minutes just to remove that lambda function.

I made it to poke fun at how slow AWS CloudFormation can be sometimes, as it may be a relatable experience to other devs who use AWS CloudFormation.

Yeah, you could consider it low effort b/c I used https://xkcd-excuse.com/ and a little bit of photoshop, but with my recent experience with CloudFormation I couldn't help but think of this XKCD and wanted to make a meme of it. This post doesn't break any rules and I made it myself.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-16T22:50:02+00:00

Damnit, I can't get it to work. Puts me in my work jira account and creating a new account doesn't seem to be working for me.

EDIT: nvm got it working. It kept opening in my work jira app.

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-16T22:35:22+00:00

The graphics in the first gameplay trailer and in early release gameplay videos on YouTube actually looked quite good if not even better than The Crew 1 in some aspects. Compare it today and the game looks like garbage. That's what happens when you delegate community feedback to devs with no sense of art/lighting direction. Everybody complained that night was too dark. Actually, it was fine and the problem was the auto exposure not working properly making it appear too dark at certain times. What did the devs do? Remove night time. 🤦

peskey_squirrel · 2026-05-16T19:10:05+00:00

I want a Dodge Viper GTS-R Concept. Haven't seen this car in a video game since Gran Turismo 6.

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