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Re:Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World by alexanderh on Saturday January 19, 2013 @09:49PM (#5085778)
not necessarily true, depth and focus become an issue. Even with a bigger screen, you still need to know exactly where the eye is looking to provide proper focus on the screens.

If you've been following what John Carmack has been doing with these types of things, that seems to be the conclusion he has come to.

Your solution is certainly simple and cheaper to implement, but isnt anywhere near as effective, immersive, or cool. Eye tracking is defiantly needed to take this to the next level.

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Re:Oculus Rift Will Change Your Gaming World by silvaring on Saturday February 02, 2013 @05:21AM (#5155687)
If you embed the optics in a contact lens (such as the one that is being readied by iOptik, then you dont need a HMD with embedded optics and can indeed have a large flexible display covering your entire Field of View.
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