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This thing looks ridiculous. AR glasses won't be a thing until they stop trying to put a tiny TV screen in front of your face. It needs to fill your visual fie

This thing looks ridiculous. AR glasses won't be a thing until they stop trying to put a tiny TV screen in front of your face. It needs to fill your visual field. They also won't be a mass adopted thing until they don't make you look like an 80s cartoon character. The question remains whether VR will still have it's time before AR becomes reasonable. Until that is answered, VC money will continue to be sacrificed in a giant fire on the alter of getting there first.

XorNot 8y ago
The "look" of anything really doesn't matter provided it's comfortable and useful. The problem at the moment is we are technologically well behind where we need to be to make practical AR in terms of screen resolutions.
- Klathmon 8y ago
  I disagree. I think the screen resolution isn't that big of a deal for many applications (mostly games and stuff like it), and it's not like it's impossible right now, just expensive. The bigger hurdle from where I'm sitting is getting framerates and latency in a good position. Everyone I've seen use a current gen VR headset gets horribly motion sick in a lot of cases. That NEEDS to be fixed, and I think that comes down to crazy high refresh rates, and super low latency, both of which really crank up the processing power needed.
  - jobigoud 8y ago
    People don't get motion sick from the fps, latency and fov of current gen (PC) VR (90 fps, ~0ms, ~100°). They get motion sick from vection and maybe from vergence accomodation conflict.
    - Klathmon 8y ago
      Interesting! I've got some reading to do! But regardless, I don't think resolution is going to be what makes or breaks VR/AR. We worked with computers just fine when they were ~500 "pixels" tall, and it's not like screen resolution technology has hit a wall that it can't get past yet, things are still improving.
    - Impossible 8y ago
      People do get motion sick from FPS because a lot of popular games and applications are not optimized, or have degenerate cases that cause hitches. ASW\ATW help with this (run at half fps and interpolate basically), but don't fix really bad fps or hitches. It doesn't help that often people are running PC VR with under powered (minspec or lower) or "misconfigured" (bad drivers, software, etc.) setups.
- swalsh 8y ago
  Fashion is a 2.4 TRILLION dollar industry (according to mckinsey) people very much care about the way things they wear look.
intruder 8y ago
You could say the same thing about any early tech.

XorNot 8y ago

The "look" of anything really doesn't matter provided it's comfortable and useful. The problem at the moment is we are technologically well behind where we need to be to make practical AR in terms of screen resolutions.

Klathmon 8y ago
I disagree. I think the screen resolution isn't that big of a deal for many applications (mostly games and stuff like it), and it's not like it's impossible right now, just expensive. The bigger hurdle from where I'm sitting is getting framerates and latency in a good position. Everyone I've seen use a current gen VR headset gets horribly motion sick in a lot of cases. That NEEDS to be fixed, and I think that comes down to crazy high refresh rates, and super low latency, both of which really crank up the processing power needed.
- jobigoud 8y ago
  People don't get motion sick from the fps, latency and fov of current gen (PC) VR (90 fps, ~0ms, ~100°). They get motion sick from vection and maybe from vergence accomodation conflict.
  - Klathmon 8y ago
    Interesting! I've got some reading to do! But regardless, I don't think resolution is going to be what makes or breaks VR/AR. We worked with computers just fine when they were ~500 "pixels" tall, and it's not like screen resolution technology has hit a wall that it can't get past yet, things are still improving.
  - Impossible 8y ago
    People do get motion sick from FPS because a lot of popular games and applications are not optimized, or have degenerate cases that cause hitches. ASW\ATW help with this (run at half fps and interpolate basically), but don't fix really bad fps or hitches. It doesn't help that often people are running PC VR with under powered (minspec or lower) or "misconfigured" (bad drivers, software, etc.) setups.
swalsh 8y ago
Fashion is a 2.4 TRILLION dollar industry (according to mckinsey) people very much care about the way things they wear look.

intruder 8y ago

You could say the same thing about any early tech.