{"id":930554,"date":"2026-10-12T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930554\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:40:11","slug":"pimax-to-improve-linux-vr-support-announces-crystal-pro-headset-and-their-own-steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930554\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimax to improve Linux VR support, announces Crystal Pro headset and their own Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pimax recently revealed a new high-end VR kit, along with their own version of a Steam Machine, and they plan better Linux support overall.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to GamingOnLinux, they said &#8220;Hi Liam, Pimax Play is coming to Linux as a dedicated client and it is being developed now&#8221;. What is Pimax Play? That&#8217;s their dedicated software client that powers all the Pimax VR headsets. So eventually they will be plug and play on your favourite Linux distribution.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent event they announced the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pimax.com\/product\/crystal-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pimax Crystal Pro<\/a>, their new high-end kit with &#8220;Native Foveated Streaming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5711469591791793380gol2.webp\" alt=\"Pimax Crystal Pro\" title=\"Pimax Crystal Pro\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1185\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some key specifications they sent over to GamingOnLinux:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nWireless (included): Built-in Wi-Fi streaming plus a dedicated Wi-Fi 6E adapter, both in the box.&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/store.pimax.com\/products\/60g-airlink-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">60G AirLink (optional upgrade)<\/a>: The third-generation kit includes two headset antennas, two Room Antennas, and two USB-C cables. The Room Antennas work in a 2&#215;2 MIMO configuration; Pimax states this is the first 60GHz 2&#215;2 MIMO wireless link on a VR headset. The two antennas back each other up if one is briefly blocked, and split the data stream for more bandwidth than a single-antenna system. Combined throughput is up to 6 Gbps, delivering an image equivalent to 2880 x 2880 pixels per eye in the user&#8217;s focus area, without video encoding. Pimax states added latency from the kit is under 2 milliseconds. As with other 60GHz wireless systems, the signal does not pass through walls.&#13;<br \/>\nOptics and display: Aspheric glass lenses paired with quantum-dot LCD (QLED) display panels at 2880 x 2880 pixels per eye (~17 million pixels total), a 110\u00b0 horizontal field of view, 35 pixels per degree, refresh rates of 72\/90\/120Hz, Mini-LED local dimming with 576 zones per eye, and 200 nits of brightness.&#13;<br \/>\nEye-tracking: Integrated Omnivision eye-tracking with ten infrared emitters per eye, sampling at 120Hz, used for both dynamic foveated rendering and, with the 60G AirLink kit installed, foveated streaming.&#13;<br \/>\nTracking: Pimax SLAM 2.0 inside-out tracking, combining four cameras, a motion sensor, and infrared illumination for low-light tracking. A swappable faceplate adds optional Lighthouse base-station support; an optional MR faceplate adds full-color passthrough with LiDAR depth sensing.&#13;<br \/>\nPower and connectivity: No battery is built into the headset; power is supplied by the included 16,000mAh external battery pack. An optional DisplayPort 1.4a cable connection is also available for wired PC VR use.&#13;<br \/>\nComfort: A rigid backstrap design, a magnetically attached facemask and foam interface, adjustable eye relief, three remappable buttons, three microphones, and off-ear speakers, with optional DMAS 2.0 earphones.&#13;<br \/>\nModularity: Swappable faceplate, backstrap, audio components, and lens inserts.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>No shipping dates were said but they did give pricing:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPimax Crystal Pro: $1,399 USD.&#13;<br \/>\nPimax Crystal Pro with 60G AirLink (third generation): $1,899 USD.&#13;<br \/>\n60G AirLink kit (third generation), sold separately: $599 USD.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally they announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pimax.com\/product\/spation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pimax Spation<\/a>, their own version of a Steam Machine, which they said will support both Windows and SteamOS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8376873731791793475gol2.webp\" alt=\"Pimax Spation\" title=\"Pimax Spation\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\"\/><\/p>\n<p>More info &#8211; it&#8217;s using desktop-class CPU and GPU components, in a chassis smaller than a typical tower PC. The standard configuration pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU (or equivalent) with an AMD RX 9070 XT or Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 memory and a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, powered by a 1000W SFX power supply. A DIY option is also planned to let you bring your own storage memory and GPU.<\/p>\n<p>Connectivity includes Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and 2.5G Ethernet. Display outputs are two DisplayPort 2.1, one HDMI 2.1 and one USB-C DisplayPort 1.4a, alongside one USB4 port and six USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports. <\/p>\n<p>A price or release date weren&#8217;t mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tArticle taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamingOnLinux.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pimax recently revealed a new high-end VR kit, along with their own version of a Steam Machine, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49,48,61,260,261,262],"class_list":["post-930554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}