Pimax Crystal review: VR overkill for the most dedicated of PCVR enthusiasts

The Pimax Crystal is a premium virtual reality headset with a premium price, starting at $1,599. Both its name and marketing promise the most crystal-clear PCVR experience, and it indeed offers the highest-res VR display we've seen yet, plus a standalone VR experience also.

But that might not even be the point of this headset – to be your family-friendly, casual VR gaming device. Nope, this strikes me as some serious equipment for VR enthusiasts that are heavy into triple-A PCVR gaming, and perhaps even VR development. My only real complaint is that they're almost entirely made out of glossy plastic, unlike the nice, grippier matte plasticwill set a new standard for how small VR controllers should be, dropping the plastic ring that these, and most other contemporary headset controllers still have, but overall – these controllers feel nice, responsive and comfortable.'s LCD screen offers 1920-by-1832 pixels per eye, here we get 2880-by-2880 pixels per eye, or 5760-by-2880 pixels in total.

Now, the Pimax Crystal is very clearly meant to be used as a PCVR headset first and foremost, so in this standalone mode, I wasn't exactly surprised to see a rather simple and underdeveloped Meta Quest-like interface, and an app store that was missing the popular VR titles you may want . To get your Pimax Crystal paired with your Windows gaming PC, you'll need to download and install an app called Pimax Play on the latter.

Besides that, you need to download and install the aforementioned Windows app called Pimax Play, and should be good to go. Luckily SteamVR lets users change any game's resolution, which is something you'll likely have to do often with a headset as high-res as this one . By the way, adjusting the brightness via the Pimax Crystal app as my VR game was running crashed the game, so keep that in mind.

Ultimately, all the triple-A virtual reality games I tested worked perfectly, and it's reassuring that Pimax encourages users to report any potential unsupported games they may discover, in order to fix any issues with those. But it's best not to have issues in the first place, and in my experience – all SteamVR games and apps tested were compatible with the Pimax Crystal.The battery situation on the Pimax Crystal is a bit confusing and convoluted.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

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