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Re:Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film s... by gardaani on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:37AM (#19388644)
Varjo VR-1 headset gives 60PPD making reading text possible. It is meant for industrial design, modelling and prototyping. It is a VR only headset, but they plan to convert it to an AR headset. It would be the same VR headset including a camera. The camera image is projected to the VR world. The display resolution should make it workable.

https://varjo.com/vr-1/

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Re:Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film s... by mojomark on Thursday March 14, 2019 @09:46AM (#19389142)
That's interesting; thanks for the link. If they used foveal rendering and custom optics to tackle the problem, I could see this ultra-high resolution being feasible with current LCD/LED display resolutions. I will attempt to check it out, but it depends on the price point. I'm certainly not going to buy sight-unseen based on website claims. I can make a website:)

Also, regarding your AR remark - I do think video-see through AR can (will?) have it's place while optical see-through AR matures.

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