In today’s post I’m looking at whether it’s worth waiting for the Pimax Crystal Pro, and why I’d buy one of today’s Pimax headsets instead – I’ve got the Dream Air SLAM, and I’ll sell it on eBay when the Pro comes out. We’ll also go through which of the four suits your PC and budget, and who should wait.
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.
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…
I run Pimax headsets on my main rig, and I’ve had the Crystal, Crystal Light, Crystal Super and Dream Air all detected, black-screened, drifting and dropping frames at one point…
In today’s review we’re taking a closer look at the Pimax Dream Air from a sim racer’s seat, and why its Sony micro-OLED picture and a headset weight under 170g make it the most exciting headset Pimax has made. On pimax.com it’s $1,999 for the Lighthouse or $2,299 for the SLAM (9 October 2026), and it needs a strong graphics card.
F1 25 in VR on Pimax kit in 2026 – the honest guide. EGO engine wobble is unfixed, DLSS is gone, OpenComposite is blocked. The XML blur fix, helmet FOV hack, and per-GPU honest assessments for the readers who insist on trying.
The complete Pimax Crystal Light, Crystal Super and Dream Air settings guide for Le Mans Ultimate – V1.3 vehicle occlusion culling, Pimax Play 1.43.9 rollback for stutter, MSAA 4x baseline, KB5077181 gotcha, per-GPU recipes.
Today we’re taking a look at running Assetto Corsa in VR on a Pimax – which route to take (OpenComposite into Pimax OpenXR, plain SteamVR or SBoys3’s driver), then the Pimax Play, Content Manager and Custom Shaders Patch settings in the order you click them.
The 2026 iRacing VR settings per headset – native OpenXR, native DFR, no OpenComposite, no OpenXR Toolkit. Pimax, Quest 3, Beyond 2, PSVR2.
The 2026 Assetto Corsa VR settings per headset – Pimax Crystal Light & Super, Quest 3, Bigscreen Beyond 2, PSVR2 PC and Somnium VR1.
