u/Tom5strike

I have a suggestion for Pimax EVO (or even the sboy3 driver) that I think quite a few people might appreciate, especially Micro OLED headset users.

It would be great to have the option to freely reduce the binocular overlap to save performance. Right now, we don't have a driver-level solution for this, which means we can't do it in some games. For OpenXR titles, we can currently achieve it with various OpenXR Toolkit mods.

Personally, I don't notice a 20% reduction in binocular overlap on the left and right at all. The FOV stays the same, but in every game I've tested, it gives me an extra 14–20 FPS. Thanks to this, Assetto Corsa EVO and Project Motor Racing have become playable for me at relatively high settings. Without cropping any fov or butchering any other settings...

Since you already plan to add vertical FOV cropping, maybe you could include this feature as well. In my opinion, the Dream Air and Super OLED have unnecessarily high binocular overlap, especially for sim racing. As I said, I don't even notice a 20% reduction on the left and right....but I notice the performance improvement immediately. Maybe anyone else with intrest in this?

After about 7 months of waiting, I finally received my OLED engine, and until then I had been using my Ultrawide engine almost daily.

Cons OLED:

·        The worst downside is the eye tracking… At first, I couldn’t even configure it three times, and then… it wobbles and shakes across the entire image. In iRacing, for example, if I look to the right for too long, the image starts to shake / become blurry. A real disaster. I had to significantly increase the sharp area to counteract this.

·        FOV is really nothing noteworthy. Even the narrow mode of the Ultrawide is much more usable. Pretty much like the Quest 3 in that regard, just with better stereo overlap.

·        Sweet spot is not particularly large. I would’ve liked at least 80% razor-sharp image, but sharpness drops off quite quickly toward the edges.

·        Toward the outer edges (around 80%), the colors fade and shift into an orange tone… not really noticeable in-game though.

·        The normal FOV mode requires way too many pixels… in my opinion, that’s not justified. The narrow FOV mode has incredibly good performance, but makes the FOV even worse. The Dream Air has a similar FOV but needs far fewer pixels—why?

·        The 3 promised distortion profiles are not there.

·        I noticed glare, but not in-game. Doesn’t bother me at all.

Pros OLED:

·        DLSS looks much sharper and better on OLED. For games that rely on it, this is an absolute game changer. MSFS 2024, EA WRC, and EA F1 2025 looked properly sharp for the first time. Probably due to the higher pixel density. This is a real advantage I haven’t really seen people talk about.

·        Mura is mostly gone, although my Ultrawide was already quite good in that regard. On white backgrounds, you can still see the OLED panel slightly.

·        Slightly better performance compared to Ultrawide narrow mode. Performance in narrow mode is extremely good.

·        In-game, the OLED image looks better. Not exactly sure why, but I can see distant objects more clearly and with better contrast...especially small, far-away details. Probably pixel density. Close objects look pretty similar though.

·        White text doesn’t split into colors toward the edges.

·        Stereo overlap is much better, but not relevant for me.

Additional notes:

·        When you “cold start” the Ultrawide, it has some ghosting; I didn’t notice this on OLED.

·        Sharpness is not significantly different from Ultrawide at the same resolution in Pimax Play (1.0–1.4). That’s probably why natural anti-aliasing isn’t better either.

·        I used contact lenses with the Ultrawide and Pimax inserts with the OLED. The inserts are really good.no complaints.

·        Comfort is about the same. I needed about 100g more counterweight on the Ultrawide. Otherwise very similar. The OLED is still very front-heavy...I recommend counterweights.

·        Better blacks or night scenes weren’t significantly more impressive on OLED for me.

·        If you tweak the colors on the Ultrawide a bit, the “better OLED colors” aren’t that far ahead anymore.

·        I play pretty much everything at 72 FPS. Works equally well with both.

·        Brightness is okay, but noticeably dimmer than Ultrawide. I’d estimate comparable to Ultrawide at ~30% brightness. The Ultrawide is extremely bright though.

I’ll probably sell the Ultrawide module soon, simply because I don’t want to keep swapping modules and counterweights for different games...it’s just annoying for me. The OLED FOV is sufficient for me. My main reasons for keeping OLED are the better DLSS behavior, performance, and clarity in the distance. But honestly, I’d be just as happy with my Ultrawide and its advantages.

I would recommend anyone who already owns another Super variant to just stick with it. The OLED isn’t that much better. Depending on whether you need FOV or hate mura, it might still be the best module overall.