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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Pimax Announces $2399 Standalone Headset With 5.7K Per Eye & 200° Field Of View [uploadvr.com]

Pimax just announced Reality 12K QLED, a future $2399 standalone VR headset with 5.7K per eye resolution and an astonishing 200 degree horizontal field of view.

Reality will use dual 5620×2720 200Hz HDR LCD panels with Mini LED backlighting and a quantum dot layer. While traditional small LCD panels use a single backlight behind the entire display, Mini LED instead uses thousands of tiny LED elements, delivering contrast levels close to OLED – though with the tradeoff of some blooming [neowin.net]. The quantum dot layer should deliver an extremely wide color range, which Pimax claims surpasses even OLED.

Pimax says Reality will use a compound lens design combining a fresnel and aspheric element to get the advantages of both. The company claims the geometric distortion seen in the peripheral view on its current products will no longer be present in Reality. The field of view is listed as 200 degrees horizontal and 135 degrees vertical – covering the majority of human vision.

Four cameras on the front edges of Reality are used for inside-out tracking of the headset and its Oculus Touch-like controllers – or your hands freely. Through a partnership with Tobii it will have integrated eye tracking cameras, powering automatic lens separation adjustment and dynamic foveated rendering.

That covers pretty much every feature a VR headset should have.

It also has additional cameras for body tracking and facial expression tracking [youtube.com].

Also at Tom's Hardware [tomshardware.com] and VRFocus [vrfocus.com].

Previously: Pimax Launches Kickstarter for "8K" Virtual Reality Headset [soylentnews.org]

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