What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:23PM (#28678600)

I think you mean Varjo. It's a pretty ridiculous headset, but the thing also forces you to buy a $2000/month subscription after you purchase it. It's safe to say it's not a really reasonable option.

It also doesn't actually have a particularly high resolution, and sort of cheats by making your periphery have a significantly lower resolution (hardware, not software, is responsible for this, so you can't just turn foveated rendering off), which makes it good for many use cases, but worse for programming.

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by samplatt on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:14PM (#28678905)

Got a source for the "forces you to subscribe" bit? Everything I've seen says that part is optional.

Also, even disregarding the extra focal-spot screens, you're wrong about the resolution. It's the highest of all headsets that don't have insanely wide FOV's like the Pimax8K, by a long way. 2880 x 2720 per eye (Varjo VR-3) > 1832 x 1920 per eye (Quest 2) > 1440 x 1600 per eye (Vive Pro 2) ~= 1600 x 1440 per eye (Valve Index)

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:47AM (#28681669)

https://store.varjo.com/xr-3

A valid Varjo XR subscription is required to use the device Every XR-3 user must have a Varjo account and a valid XR subscription. Read more here.

You could have just checked the store.

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by caslon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:49PM (#28684849)

Just to eliminate any doubt, the same is also the case for the VR-3 and every other Varjo model:

A valid Varjo VR subscription is required to use the device Every VR-3 user must have a Varjo account and a valid VR subscription. Read more here.

https://store.varjo.com/vr-3

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by samplatt on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @10:03PM (#28689514)

Fair call. I guess I cast doubt on that because I knew the resolution assertion was wrong.

The TOS says that the minimum subscription length is 1 year, so that brings the absolute minimum cost to US$3990 for the VR-3.

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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week by samplatt on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:40AM (#28691545)

$2000/month is wrong, too. It's $750/year.

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