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Pimax is legitimate, but finnicky. They're very much enthusiast HMDs designed to be tinkered with and may need some settings dialed in to work right, not the most plug and play friendly, but they give you a bunch of options like adjusting individual color channels, backlight brightness, and software IPD offsets if you got misaligned eyes so you can fine tune your image how you like. They're trying to clear a bunch of inventory because they're doing a new line up of HMDs later in the year, probably hence the lootboxes. Look up the 12k, it's got absolute retard insane specs and you can trade in the value of any current Pimax headset for it. Pimax is also lighthouse tracked. Just buy from anywhere except Pimax themselves as their return policy is only 7 days and their HMDs are kind of finnicky. They're my favorite and the FoV is amazing, but they're not for everyone. Some games you also need to enable a performance intensive fix for due to canted displays, but few of the larger games require it aside from stuff like MSFS or Elite Dangerous.

Also don't worry about Valve announcing a successor. Contratry to some rumors fanboys would have you believe, by all indication Valve is not making a new HMD any time soon and I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see it till 2023 unless Valve have become the best secret keepers in the industry. Audio wise, the G2 uses the exact same speakers, but it's got 10 degrees less FoV and a tiny sweetspot. Pimax has some off ear headphones, called the DMAS like the Index, but stock they sound nowhere near as good due to basic drivers, but with some third party EQ some people have reported getting sound quality pretty close to the Index. As I said, it takes some tinkering.