Hello, Guys

Are there any simmers who switched from Quest3 to Pimax Crystal? Or at least Quest3 owner who tried Crystal?

Please, share your experience. I would like to know how the picture is different. Is there any difference in performance?  The comfort, sizes, straps doesn't matter. 

Would be grateful for your impressions!

I only tried a demo of the Crystal in a shop.  The colour and contrast is better than the Q3 and it is perhaps a bit clearer in the centre with no screen door effect.  Chromatic aberration is very apparent.  FOV for me was not great because my eyes were not close enough to the lenses.  I have the Quest 3 at home.  Screen door is discernable, but most of the time you are not aware of it and you only see it because the lenses are so darn good.  Edge-to-edge clarity is brilliant; you don't have to move your head to see things clearly, just your eyes.  Chromatic aberration is virtually non-existant.  Though the Crystal has more pixels, you need to super-sample the Quest to get decent clarity, compensating for the video encoding and lack of display port.  This means you probably need as much grunt to drive it as the Crystal.  I would not consider the Crystal a significant uprade from the Quest 3.  I'll hold on for now and hopefully there will be a decent mainstream headset coming out in the not-too-distant future.

16 hours ago, Grindathotte said:

I only tried a demo of the Crystal in a shop.  The colour and contrast is better than the Q3 and it is perhaps a bit clearer in the centre with no screen door effect.  Chromatic aberration is very apparent.  FOV for me was not great because my eyes were not close enough to the lenses.  I have the Quest 3 at home.  Screen door is discernable, but most of the time you are not aware of it and you only see it because the lenses are so darn good.  Edge-to-edge clarity is brilliant; you don't have to move your head to see things clearly, just your eyes.  Chromatic aberration is virtually non-existant.  Though the Crystal has more pixels, you need to super-sample the Quest to get decent clarity, compensating for the video encoding and lack of display port.  This means you probably need as much grunt to drive it as the Crystal.  I would not consider the Crystal a significant uprade from the Quest 3.  I'll hold on for now and hopefully there will be a decent mainstream headset coming out in the not-too-distant future.

thank you for your comments. It is interesting.