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Re:Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order by Lionleaf on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @03:19PM (#10853413)
At the moment the resolution simply isn't there for multiple virtual high resolution displays. I did some math a while back, and if I wanted the 1080 display I had at work at the same distance from my eyes in virtual space, I would need 5k by 5k pixels per eye.

Add a high refresh rate and that's far higher datarate than we can handle right now. And you'd need display tech that's pretty insane.

While it's not a replacement yet, if you're happy with some oldschool low res displays it's probably fine. Someone should do the math of the resolution you'd get in some examples.

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Re:Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order by jfoutz on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @03:35PM (#10853551)
Interesting. i use small fonts just so i can pack more stuff on the screen. doubling the font size seems like i'd need 4x the area, eyeballing my current monitor setup, seems like it'd be a wash. Might be worth trying out just for the novelty though.
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