The Best 2024 VR Headset ? | Pimax Crystal Light

In today's video, we are going to take a first look at the Pimax Crystal Light. Pimax was kind enough to send over a unit for me to test for a while and share my honest opinion with you. Over time, I will be using the Pimax Crystal Light more extensively in games such as Euro Truck Simulator 2 and DCS, so you can get a good sense of how it performs!

Pimax Crystal Light details:

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Pimax Crystal Light biggest wins
02:55 Pimax Crystal Light Prices
04:07 Pimax Crystal Light Clarity, IPD and Eye tracking
06:34 Pimax Crystal Light 4090 Benchmark
08:54 Pimax Crystal Light 3080TI Benchmark
10:15 Pimax Crystal Light Conclusion

PC SPECS 4090 :
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Intel® Core™ i9-9900K
64 GB

PC SPECS 3080TI:
NVIDIA 3080TI
Intel® Core™ i9-14900KF
64 GB DDR5-6000

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[laubox]

During the upcoming months, I will be using the Pimax Crystal Light exclusively to give you a detailed benchmark of how I experience the headset!

[acratone]

I have been using Pimax Crystal Light in MSFS2020 for 4 days now. Local Dimming model. It is way better than my old HP Reverb G2.
Love it!

My hardware 5800X3D cpu and 4070 gpu

Performance is great. Colors, clarity, sharpness on the edges of view. It's all amazing!

I did not get the controllers ($100), I don't need them at all for MSFS2020. I never used my HP G2 controllers after the first day in MSFS.

[somerandomperson]

I do wish these reviewers like yourself would stop saying the cost is what is shown on the store page - it isn't, it's far more. The store price is excluding tax and shipping - and neither are cheap. Store price in the UK, for example, is £725 for the highest priced package, but with mandatory tax and delivery added it turns into a whopping £917 - just £2 cheaper than the full Index system that many were complaining about being expensive. It needs to be made clearer by reviewers that the price is exclusive of tax and shipping.

[JaapGrolleman]

Netherlands shirt! Just a thing about the cable: you can take it out easily, it's just plugged in because it's more user friendly that way out of the box.

[gcampagn]

Well, I have been using the Crystal Lightt with my very powerful laptop for a while now and IT IS FANTASTIC, I tell you! It is nothing short of feeling like you're in another world! WHAT A RUSH! It was very easy to install and I mostly use it for looking at 3D 108/360 videos and for playing with MSFS 2020 .

[PaulieK]

Great first impression. Im running a RTX 3080 and a 5700X3D with 32gb of ram. Do you think that's powerful enough to run this headset? My main use case will be American and Euro Truck sim and some games in my PCVR backlog like Half Life Alyx. Im currently using a Quest 3 paired with a BoboVR S3 and it's solid but if the clarity and FOV on the Pimax are a noticable step up, that has me curious.

[nigaudlotovrbenchmarkandvi]

Why the silence about the 60hz mode that does not exist ? Pimax sells that thing with that specification and when they are being asked about that, they are just playing dead !

[asheliagaming]

Thank you for this review!
So this means it actually can run with a i9-9900K? I have a 10th gen i9 myself, but Pimax lists on their website that 12th gen is minimum required, that stopped me from ordering. But if this still works today, I might reconsider.

[Bubatu]

If it had eye tracking, it'd be the perfect headset for me. The regular pimax crystal has features I don't need for PCVR, which is the only kind of VR I use. Thanks for the review.

[FlameHazeVT]

I definitely like the price of it but sadly the thing that makes the Crystal so interesting for Simming is gone in the Light, the dynamic foveated rendering and eye tracking.

[bjrnchrstn]

Raad je aan om mijn G2 te upgraden met de Light?
Gpu is een 3080.
Dank voor je insights.

[mh]

Is the medium-resolution of the Pimax comparable with HP Reverb G2 @ native 100% resolution?

[cgmax]

If you plan to do a giveaway for the viewers, please let us know as we are not as wealthy as you.😁

[jamiesalmonsculpture]

I've heard the local dimming is way over hyped

[thomas_ger]

The price policy is at least in EU or Germany a joke. They say it is starting at 769€ without controllers. But the truth is that you have to add taxes and shipping an so it ends up at 1.000€

That's another way of taking the piss out of consumers

[itsjusttmanakatech]

Bro is calling a 3080ti a lower end graphics card 🤦

[Johnny_Thunder]

Still too damn big. The design is awful.

[PaulMcDonagh-rvvc]

Garbage review. Youve re-hashed everything that has already been said x20 already. Why didnt you address:

1. Half lock refresh stability on 73, 90, 120
2. 1/3rd lock refresh of 120hz.
3. Stutters and smoothness at all profile settings.
4. Smart smoothing.
5. Who plays truck simulator? Why not show MSFS?
6. Address the advertised 60hz mode, which it still doesnt feature.

[freshs]

There is no way I am ever wearing this microwave in my head!! Not even if it was retina resolution and 200 fov

[directorb]

Headset strap bad design, headset face pad thin and bad design. Discovered a distorted area in the sweet spot in my left lense contacted about return they offered new lense 80$ cash voucher new face plate but wouldn't do the return and now they ghosted me, 4 days so don't trust this company