In today’s post I’m taking a closer look at the Sony panelled Dream Air and the Dream Air SE, both of which I’ve had on my rig, and why the choice between them turns on your graphics card and your budget more than the spec sheet.
Today we’re looking at Lighthouse tracking on the Pimax Dream Air for seated sim racing and flight, from how many base stations you need and where they go around your monitors, to why an older CPU is better off with Lighthouse and when SLAM is the easier choice.
How to install the SBoys3 native SteamVR driver on the Pimax Dream Air Lighthouse, from the GitHub download to the first launch, with both the Pimax Play and Pimax EVO routes and the settings that matter for sim racing.
Featured Image: Pimax Dream Air SE SLAM We’re all waking up to the news about Steam’s newest VR headset – the Steam Frame. So today I’m going to look at…
A first-hand look at the Pimax Dream Air SE SLAM – the lighter, cheaper micro-OLED headset that asks a lot less of your graphics card than the full Dream Air. I raced in it to see whether the resolution drop matters in a cockpit, and where it sits against a Quest 3 or the full-fat Dream Air.
If you follow VR for sim racing at all, you know Pimax: enormous field of view, silly-sharp resolution, and a long-standing reputation for making you wait. I’ve bought a few…
If you’re running a Meta Quest 3 for sim racing and you’ve been staring at the Pimax Dream Air wondering whether to make the jump, here’s the short version: for…
Featured image: a jet cockpit in VTOL VR (Image: Boundless Dynamics) I’ve been casually flying with VR since my Valve Index days, and as I tested the headsets for racing,…
I’ve just pulled the screens out of my Crystal Super and put different ones in. That sentence still sounds mad to me, and I’ve done it. The Super is the…
Five weeks ago I reviewed the Pimax Dream Air Lighthouse, which I was very excited about as you know, and, I told you that base stations were the ones to…
In my previous post, I mentioned that the Dream Air just… works – you can somewhat reliably go straight into iRacing and just race after you’ve activated the headset. But…
Specs have never really been Pimax’s problem. A Crystal, a Crystal Light and a Crystal Super have all come through my office, and every one of them put a stunning…
Of every sim I run on Pimax kit, iRacing has the least setup friction. It’s also where getting the settings right pays back the most. In 2026 I’ve stopped fighting…
