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Re:Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 by bluescrn on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:07AM (#38912981)
With a real monitor, a 4K screen on your desk covers maybe 45 degrees of your horizontal field of view. And it's pixel perfect.

In VR, that 4K needs to cover over 100 degrees FOV. And any 'virtual monitor' content is being resampled and filtered, inevitably blurring/softening things.

I suspect that we're going to need a lot more than 4K resolution before you can comfortably work with small text (e.g. coding, web browsing) in VR.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 by cpuguy83 on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:47AM (#38914674)
> Apple Vision Pro features ultra-high-resolution displays that deliver more pixels than a 4K TV for each eye.

That is likely some clever wording, but according to the announcement, a non-pessimistic interpretation does seem like each eye is getting more than 4K.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 by philistine on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:36PM (#38921562)
If we'd be getting 5K, they'd say 5K. So it's between 4 and 5. Not that great.
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