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Re:Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [... by zhynn on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:33AM (#21794645)
It's because it is huge. Compared to a normal desktop monitor, he is looking at like 30 point text. If you were to render text as the same size as a normal monitor, it would be illegible on a vive (which is what it looks like he is using). The thing is, when you have near infinite surface area, having big text is no big deal.
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Re:Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [... by drusepth on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:53PM (#21798519)
It'd be interesting to see how the eye damage/strain caused by reading small text on a big monitor compares to the eye damage/strain caused by reading big text on monitors inches away from your eyes.
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Re:Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [... by drudru11 on Sunday December 15, 2019 @01:59AM (#21794904)
I was wondering more about screen door and texture aliasing effects because of barrel projections, etc.

Thx for the note on the vive

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