Pimax Announces Crystal Pro Wireless VR Headset

The Specs and How It Compares

Pimax lists 2880 × 2880 pixels per eye, glass aspheric lenses, and a 110-degree horizontal field of view. The QLED panels use Mini-LED backlighting with 576 dimming zones per eye, allowing dark and bright parts of a scene to be lit separately.

That resolution matches Crystal Light (opens in a new tab), which also uses glass aspheric lenses and a DisplayPort connection. The Pro adds eye tracking and built-in wireless. Crystal Light’s foveated rendering keeps the detailed area in the center of your view; Pro can move it with your eyes.

If you’re comparing it with Crystal Super (opens in a new tab), the Super’s QLED models still have more pixels at 3840 × 3840 per eye. Pro gives you more ways to use the headset, rather than a higher-resolution screen than everything else Pimax sells.

The displays support up to 120 Hz when wired. Eye tracking also enables dynamic foveated rendering, which focuses rendering detail where you’re looking to reduce the work your graphics card has to do.

Mixed Reality and Swappable Parts

Four cameras handle tracking on the headset. You can add a Lighthouse faceplate for base-station tracking, or an optional mixed-reality faceplate with color passthrough and LiDAR depth sensing.

Power comes from an included 16,000mAh battery pack you carry separately. The design also has adjustable eye relief, a magnetic face cushion, and three buttons you can remap.

Pimax’s new ringless controllers (opens in a new tab) have a neat extra trick. Clip the two halves together and they become a wireless gamepad for Windows and Steam. Those are sold separately; Crystal Pro comes with ringed controllers.

The Wireless Upgrade

Wi-Fi streaming and a Wi-Fi 6E adapter come with the headset. The optional 60G AirLink kit goes further, sending an uncompressed image in the area you’re looking at while streaming the rest of the view more efficiently. Pimax calls this Native Foveated Streaming.

It runs at up to 90 Hz and uses two room antennas, with Wi-Fi as a fallback if the 60 GHz link drops. Pimax puts the added wireless latency below 2 milliseconds.

Price and Availability

Crystal Pro costs $1,399. The bundle with the third-generation 60G AirLink kit is $1,899, or you can buy the kit separately for $599. A DisplayPort cable is optional, too.

Pimax plans hands-on demos for the fourth quarter of 2026 and lists spring 2027 for shipping in its launch FAQ (opens in a new tab). Its store is taking $1 reservations, with $20 off the headset or $50 off the AirLink bundle at launch.