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A lot of people disagree with that, including me.

I don't like all these financial schemes they are trying. It feels like they are trying to take advantage of people who shouldn't buy gear this expensive. And I'm still hearing way too many horror stories about QA issues. Pimax needs to stop being a 'next big thing' company and become a 'current good thing' company, IMHO.

One of the things that PWCG has that makes it nicer than the standard campaign is that is generates a greater diversity of missions, which is certainly not historically accurate, but is more fun than getting the same kind of mission 10 times in a row.

It was a bad decision to add a battery to the thing, so the thing is worse than the Lite in some ways and better in other ways, which makes it a hard sell at twice the price. The Crystal Lite is what they should have made in the first place. If they are smart, they focus on fixing the QA issues for the Lite and then crank out a lot of headsets. And for the next version, they make a Lite 2 or whatever they want to call it. But Pimax seems to have a chronic issue with overreaching, wanting to make too many products and products that are too complicated.

The 4070 is usable (but not perfect) in VR with IL-2 at least, so if the 50-series moves the tiers one full step down, that would be achieved. If. And passthrough is both a hardware and software thing, but the Quest 3 had huge gains over time as they tuned the software. The fisheye camera pictures require a lot of manipulation to undistort the images and stitch the various camera images together. Pimax probably doesn't have the resources to do that as well as Meta. Here you can see the improvement at the 4 minute mark:

For sure there is a lot to be improved, but I only see it getting better over time, both from the perspective of cost (mainly what lower cost GPUs can do), quality of the headsets, but also standardization on OpenXR. Hopefully features like passthrough also become part of the platform, because the hardware seems ready and there some applications already for this like SimXR for MSFS, but also built-in support with the Somnium VR1. So that would help a lot for those who want/need to see their controls.

What matters is the cost vs benefit though. Many people, including me, think that the benefit is very high.

But we went into flight simming because we hate money, right?

Apparently, real WW 2 pilots couldn't see their keyboard either, so this adds to the realism. But seriously, of course you don't want to buy one if you only look at the negatives and ignore the huge positives. And the positives are largely things that are impossible to show, but you really have to feel. It's like sex. From a rational point of view it is hard to justify if you make a list of the pros and cons. But the spreadsheet cannot account for feelings.

PC simming is a fairly small niche market, so it's not like there is a lot of room for a ton of products.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325580/The_Mighty_Eighth_VR/ It's not out yet of course, so you can only wishlist/follow it on Steam for now.

Patreon is just for those who want to voluntarily contribute to the development. That has nothing to do with how the actual game will be sold.

Back then the software was far from done/copied, so you can't really go off that early impression. Anyway, I'm waiting for the Winwing FFB to come out.

He was very proud of the Pour le Mérite medal that he won due to that action.

Erwin Rommel fought as a Lieutenant in Isonzo, doing very well.