nope, no hype here. -just stating I bought them.

But it is interesting to me, I don't think you're a regular reader of these forums, and that's ok-  the reason being that the bitcoin community has been far more willing to take chances on startup companies, specifically mining ones like KNCminer, Alpha Technology and many many others, whose product images didn't even exist in the beginning when they offered pre-orders, or at best were copies of 4U servers pulled directly from the web(can i get an amen?).  The point is, the render means little to nothing for many of these startups as they're just trying to get the thing under development and functioning.  The pretty design can come as it further down the road for all many of us care.  Just build us a 4K HMD and f*ck the renders.

So, it seems you're obviously coming from a different perspective, likely the HMD VR crowd who in gengeral wants to see a finished and pretty render to place in the news..   Or maybe you didn't read in their response on reddit that their site was only up for the past 3 days and google indexed them the first day resulting in an unfinished website and tons of pre-orders?

Unlike the VR community, people here are throwing money(bitcoins and cryptos) at these miner companies with little or nothing more than an announcement from them that they are developing a miner. Sometimes they win, other times they don't.  But without that, there wouldn't have been a KNC, Butterfly labs (good riddance), Alpha Tech, etc... etc... etc....

So that's what's *great* about the crypto community, unlike the VR gaming one.