> The display quality of the new Index (for instance) is sufficient... Is it? Are the lenses that much better? My Lenovo Explorer WMR is 1440^2 px/eye, and t

> The display quality of the new Index (for instance) is sufficient... Is it? Are the lenses that much better? My Lenovo Explorer WMR is 1440^2 px/eye, and thus has a similar angular resolution to the wider FoV Index. Both are RGB, not Pentile. But I find each eye gets a central circular region something vaguely like 300 px diameter where subpixel rendering is worthwhile (I've a custom render stack), and less than 600 px before the lens blurs pixels together. That's 1980's VGA-like resolution. And it gets even worse as objects move in from infinity and thus out of these regions. If you disable the "oh, its an HMD, not a normal display" feature the OP speaks of, you can easily throw up a pixel-aligned test pattern image. The results are... blurry. So I use DJI's 1080p drone goggles. Readable 5 pt fonts, almost corner to corner. With shutter glasses, because DJI didn't expose the two panel feeds. :/ And reading glasses, because DJI's lenses... sigh. It's a placeholder kludge. Nreal's 1080p AR glasses could be available in a couple of months. > the critical show-stopper is not being able to use your hands to type onto a real keyboard I've been using my unremarkable laptop keyboard since Vive, by doing pass-through AR with a camera gaff-taped to the HMD. With a browser-as-compositor stack, it's two-video-dom-elements trivial. Though I've heard with a SteamVR stack, pass-through latency can be a challenge. Hand tracking is more problematic. It's a poster child for acquisitions wiping out market infrastructure. The sole hand-tracking survivor was Leap Motion, which fumbled its couple of Apple acquisition attempts. It's been Windows-only, stalled, kind of crufty, and now has finally been acquired, with uncertain consequences for future availability. And one can kludge. But it isn't pretty. > When there's a good solution to this I suspect quite a few developers will give it a go when they want a fully immersive in-the-zone experience. And shallow 3D seems to have interesting possibilities for IDEs.