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Post by erikpukinskis »

Groxx wrote: post #466
erikpukinskis wrote: post #440

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People keep saying this over and over but I don’t understand. Why does a HMD need the same resolution as a monitor in order to do the same job? Wouldn’t the HMD be equivalent to having like sixteen 1600x1200 displays all around you, and isn’t that at least as good as a single 4K monitor? You could have one virtual display with close to your face for high resolution information, and then dozens of peripheral displays…

A good chunk of it is that text is unreadable in current headsets unless it's far larger than what most people are used to. So that 720p hololens gives you at best a 720p monitor's worth of text at a time[1]. Sure, you can have any number of virtual displays around you at any desirable resolution - they're just unusable until you get close enough that you only see a tiny piece at a time. To your specific example of "…

Why are you arguing a position at all? Why aren’t you curious about what’s possible?

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Post by andybak »

discordianfish wrote: post #530
andybak wrote: post #307

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> In reality though, there is still today very few engaging content which leads to a lot disappointment. I keep hearing this from some sections of the VR community but I my personal feelings are entirely opposite. I simply don't have enough time for all the good VR content I've got access to. My backlog is growing. Do you have incredible amounts of free time or do you have very specific tastes? Tilt Brush and Google…

Probably a mix of specific taste and the abundance of alternatives to do. Tilt Brush and Google Earth is super fun, but it it wears off. And when it comes to games, there are only so many games I'm interested in. Most Vive games feel more like browser/mobile games to me than the epic PC games I love. That being said, I just realized that Fallout VR and LA Noire just got released. This is the kind of content I was wai…

I see we differ then. I'm not interested in VR as another medium for AAA titles. I want to see software that could only ever be in realised in VR.

And I'm quite happy for that software to be shorter and quirkier and less polished for the foreseeable future. Let a thousand flowers bloom. VR should also be bigger than gaming. Gaming would be just one application of VR - not it's raison d'etre.

Anything is better than it becoming a vehicle for annual releases of Call of Duty and FIFA.

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