{"id":499157,"date":"2026-01-07T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499157\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:11:17","slug":"pimax-dream-air-begins-shipping-in-small-batches-with-temporary-headstrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499157\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimax Dream Air Begins Shipping in “small batches” With Temporary Headstrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

After multiple delays, Pimax has finally begun shipping its next PC VR headset, albeit in \u201csmall batches,\u201d which arrive with a fabric headstrap\u2014something of a temporary solution until the company can ship out its official headstrap.<\/p>\n

The News<\/p>\n

Dream Air is Pimax\u2019s first thing and light PC VR headset, which is set to arrive with Sony\u2019s high-end micro-OLED panels, packing in a 13.6MP (3,840 \u00d7 3,552) per-eye resolution.<\/p>\n

Now, Pimax told Road to VR\u00a0that it actually began shipping Dream Air in \u201csmall batches\u201d before the end of the year for the purposes of external beta testing.<\/p>\n

While official shipments are set to kick off sometime this month, a few users have already received Dream Air with what Jaap Grolleman,\u00a0Pimax\u2019s Head of Communications, describes as a stopgap measure to get the first units out the door.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still working on the final backstrap, but we don\u2019t want to make that a showstopper to start shipping and start collecting feedback on the headset,\u201d Grolleman said in a recent video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pimax Dream Air 2D Strap | Image courtesy Pimax<\/p>\n

Those early batches of Pimax Dream Air are shipping with what the company calls its \u201c2D headstrap\u201d, as it\u2019s made out of fabric, with Grolleman noting that it\u2019s \u201cperfectly fine to use, even in long sessions as it hugs your head from behind and slightly above.\u201d<\/p>\n

A \u201c3D headstrap\u201d\u2014more of an Apple Vision Pro-inspired knit affair\u2014is said to arrive later to who initially received the 2D strap with their order.<\/p>\n

Pimax hasn\u2019t provided info on when the 3D strap will arrive, or when the company will cut off shipments including the 2D strap.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pimax Dream Air 3D Strap | Image courtesy Pimax<\/p>\n

Notably, Pimax says it\u2019s also developing a \u201chard backstrap,\u201d which includes off-ear audio, which will be available sometime after Dream Air begins its wider rollout.<\/p>\n

As for Dream Air SE\u2014the cheaper variant which uses 6.5MP (2,560 \u00d7 2,560) per-eye displays\u2014Pimax says small batches will begin shipping out in February 2026.<\/p>\n

Pimax initially announced\u00a0Dream Air<\/a>\u00a0last December, as it hoped to enter the emergent thin and light PC VR headset segment, which includes entries such as Bigscreen Beyond\u00a0and Shiftall MaganeX Superlight 8K. The headset however suffered a number of delays following its planned May 2025 launch.<\/p>\n

My Take<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been following Pimax, you already know this is how they operate: official announcements and initial shipping dates feel more like walking into a brainstorming session, as the company often changes designs, specs, and release windows multiple times before official release. Along the way, the company usually tends to announce other devices, making the reporting process more like\u00a0taking apart a watch to see what time it is.<\/p>\n

On the face of it, you might think that\u2019s fairly amateurish behavior, but Pimax has proven to do what few companies can: publicly iterate with the expectation that it will eventually\u00a0deliver.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been that way ever since the company funded its original 2017 Pimax \u201c4K\u201d headset via Kickstarter\u2014back when Pimax announced it was releasing the first consumer-oriented wide-FOV PC VR headset alongside a bevy of modular accessories<\/a>. Some of those never came, and some arrived two years later.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe that was amateurish,\u00a0but the company is still here, and still serving up competitive hardware, which says something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After multiple delays, Pimax has finally begun shipping its next PC VR headset, albeit in \u201csmall batches,\u201d which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-499157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854461297315417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}