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Re:VR by mozumder on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:48PM (#13395812)
When I tried all I noticed was the pixelation and had to take it off. It was such a terrible user experience. It reminded me of some student science project, instead of a marketable product.

VR isn't going to be popular until we have 8K or 16K headsets doing 120fps, and then we have to deal with the fact that it removes you from your environment.

The first generation of VR died off because they couldn't figure out how to solve the product liability issues. That problem still exists, which is why VR isn't going to be usable and is a dead-end.

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Re:VR by nojvek on Friday January 13, 2017 @06:58PM (#13395875)
I agree. I own a occipital bridge. The resolution needs to get 5x better than retina to be believable.

Also 6dof tracking with hand gesture tracking under 10ms is still a challenge. I think it's possible but needs serious hardware advancements.

I love my bridge though. No hanging cables is definitely a good thing

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Re:VR by AlphaSite on Saturday January 14, 2017 @05:48AM (#13397857)
It's not perfect, Valves new controller prototype is probably the closest we have to noninteusive, low latency gesture tracking with some form of feedback (the oculus Half moon prototypes were also fairly close, but iirc the gesture recognitation was neutred for what ever reason).

http://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/valve-vr-...

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Re:VR by mhenr18 on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:37PM (#13396303)
The definition of Retina varies based on viewing distance. The DPI needed for Retina in VR is a heck of a lot higher than what's needed for a smartphone.

IMO we need to go through at least two resolution quadruplings on the Vive to get it to be crisp enough for the screen-dooring to not be noticeable.

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Re:VR by kobeya on Friday January 13, 2017 @08:07PM (#13396182)
Why 5x?
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Re:VR by kalleboo on Saturday January 14, 2017 @08:15AM (#13398238)
I let my wife, who has zero interest in games outside of Candy Crush, try on Google Cardboard (minimal immersion) on an iPhone (horrible display for VR) with the demo apps (can't even call them games really) and she was so engaged she ended up walking into one of our shoji/paper doors tearing a hole in it.

Once Vive-level VR comes down to wireless/portable size and down in cost to the $300 range it's going to be MASSIVE. Maybe the first generation ("until we get 16K 120fps headsets") will not appeal to productivity or hardcore gaming buffs, but 100 million Wiis were sold, and there was nothing technically impressive about that thing.

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Re:VR by mahyarm on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:51PM (#13396113)
All the VR goggles are 1440p max, so we haven't seen "4K" yet to see how good it is.
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