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New: Pimax 5K+ with 6DOF, Motion Cancellation tests.

Discussion in 'VR Headsets and Sim Gaming - Virtual Reality' started by Flash66, Nov 7, 2018.

  1. Flash66

    Flash66 6DOF Motion over the ocean in DCS FA/18-C

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    I just wanted to contribute some Pimax and tracker info here.. I just received my Pimax 5K+ and found out the hard way coming from an oculus setup that Vive Lighthouses cannot be mounted on a platform for the obvious reasons. I just now mounted a Vive tracker to my 6DOF using Matzman666's Motion control/OpenVR and it works great! At first, I thought this would be a failure, but now totally stoked with this addition. Primarily I use my 6DOF for DCS and the added FOV on the pimax is incredible in DCS despite some warping distortion along the edges that's mostly noticeable to me so far only in DCS as theres'alot of eye turning involved in flight sims. Not a deal breaker, but a little annoying. Now I have to try and persuade my hardware to get a much better FPS in DCS. The Pimax HMD is very much a resource glutton as I went from 50FPS with Oculus - AA 8x MSAA 1.5 SSAA 2X to everything off and now getting around 30FPS with a lot of motion blur due to the low FPS. I'm currently running a I7 5820 6core CPU OC'd to 4.5Ghz with a 1080TI OC'd to 2032Mhz. 32MB DDR4@3200Mhz. I guess it may be time for a 2080TI and a 9900x but I'm just not convinced this may not help more than 10FPS or so. So as the case with technology especially in what we're all trying to do here, the gain in FOV to actually see your wings in your peripheral is wonderful, but the quality of the sim at this moment is less than desirable at the level of today's GPU. I'm sure a lot of it also has to do with DCS itself not being able to maximize all CPU cores. Thank goodness I didn't go for the 8K!
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  2. noorbeast

    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    Great news that motion cancellation works.

    A 2080ti will help a little, but I agree in complex sims it is likely to only be around 10fps.

    Many of us likely have a long wait before we get our Pimax, so do keep posting regular updates as you try out different games and settings.
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  3. lysa elec

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    The pimax 5k works you he(it) well with tool sim 2

    Thank you
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    Yes...the 8K is a fail, in my opinion (compared to the 5K+) ...some people said, that the distortion on the 8k is bigger, as on the 5K+ version. Now i wait for the BE version. I really want OLED.
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    @Flash66 What backer number did you have for the pimax 5kplus?

    regards Jeroen
  6. Flash66

    Flash66 6DOF Motion over the ocean in DCS FA/18-C

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    I bought mine from another backer. I have another one coming in the #200's that I posted for sale on eBay now.
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    Hi Flash, is motion cancelling still working? I heard the pimax software causing some issues. And i want the Pimax 5k so badly!
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    Couldn't agree more with you. The sight of your wings is absolutely wonderful, but the only flight sim I can run in the Pimax 5K+ is Aerofly's FS2. DCS, of course, is the worst of all. I'm running an i7-8086K on up to 5Ghz with an RTX-2080. Now I really wonder how the HP Reverb will do.
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    Any news on Pimax motion cancellation? I'm considering upgrading my 3dof to a 5dof with much more throw. Curious as to any issues I may have with my 5K+.
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    Pimax has just announced an update of their PiTools software for around Dec. 13th (Kickstarter Update, take date with care). That could be a reason to give it another shot.
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    I hope somebody can help.
    I am talking about Dcs World
    I have been using my pimax 5k+ for the past 7 or 8 months and I actually have no complaints.
    I also have a 4 Dof motion platform and till now I have used that with no motion compensation.
    Now I bought a vive tracker and installed it behind my seat and both Pimax and the tracker are in view of my single lighthouse v1
    My problem is this..
    When I activate the motion compensation in pitools my view is not centred anymore and I can’t centre it with numpad 5.
    No way to recentre my view.
    When I activate motion compensation I instantly find myself looking at the seat pan of the aircraf.
    I haven’t installed Vr imput emulator, I don’t think it’s needed but I am unsure.
    I figured I would try to ask here before messing with this.
    I wouldn’t want to mess things even more than what they are now.
    Any thoughts anybody?
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    Have you tried re-running the PiTools boundary setup since adding the controller?
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    Thanks for your answer noorbeast

    Can you explain what the boundary setup is in pitools?
    Do you mean the room setup?

    Can you also confirm this?
    Do I need to install open vr imput emulator for motion compensation to work with Pimax or not?
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    Yes I mean Pimax room setup.

    I don't use it but as I understand it the Pimax motion compensation is stand alone.
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    Thanks for your reply

    I will try to run again the room setup
    In the mean time maybe somebody who made it work will chime in and explain how it works
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    I have re-run room setup in pitools but no change
    When motion compensation is off everything is normal
    As soon as I turn it on what I see changes, the image switches about 90 degrees on the “roll axis”
    To better explain it ...
    Motion compensation off in pitools, the floor in steam home is below me and ceiling above me
    As soon as I turn on motion compensation in pitools I see in steam home the floor on my left and is vertical like it was one of the walls and ceiling on the right vertical as well like it was a wall as well.
    The two walls are now my floor and ceiling
    It’s difficult to explain
    Few people made it work so there must be a way.
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    I've seem a post that said that you need to change the alignment of the sensor (Ie. controller or tracker being used to track rig) to fix that.
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    @SeatTime

    Thanks a lot for that
    I spent the day trying to figure this out and finally I succeeded
    Yes it works and yes the vive tracker needs to be rotated till you see the correct image inside the headset.
    Thanks everybody for the help
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