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Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Re: Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World

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Every time I see these referenced I think of Ready Player One and the start of OASIS

Exactly what I was thinking as well, I could see people plugging into these and not wanting to leave. It's already what some people who have tried it have said they felt like.

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Which might also lower the computational requirements as the level of detail only needs to be high where you are looking. The latency would have to be very low though.

Actually, this would be best handled by simple having a display that takes up significantly more than your field of view.

not necessarily true, depth and focus become an issue. Even with a bigger screen, you still need to know exactly where the eye is looking to provide proper focus on the screens.

If you've been following what John Carmack has been doing with these types of things, that seems to be the conclusion he has come to.

Your solution is certainly simple and cheaper to implement, but isnt anywhere near as effective, immersive, or cool. Eye tracking is defiantly needed to take this to the next level.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, this would be best handled by simple having a display that takes up significantly more than your field of view.

not necessarily true, depth and focus become an issue. Even with a bigger screen, you still need to know exactly where the eye is looking to provide proper focus on the screens. If you've been following what John Carmack has been doing with these types of things, that seems to be the conclusion he has come to. Your solution is certainly simple and cheaper to implement, but isnt anywhere near as effective, immersive,…

If you embed the optics in a contact lens (such as the one that is being readied by iOptik, then you dont need a HMD with embedded optics and can indeed have a large flexible display covering your entire Field of View.
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