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FIELD OF VISION. Why can’t VR people understand that humans are used to ultra wide vision angle? Peeping into a VR headset removes all peripheral vision, meani

by d--b 7y ago

FIELD OF VISION. Why can’t VR people understand that humans are used to ultra wide vision angle? Peeping into a VR headset removes all peripheral vision, meaning you have to rotate your head all over to see things. It’s like playing quake with your neck. Make a 180 angle headset and maybe people will feel transported to another place. Right now it’s more like looking into a doll’s house. No wonder immersive rooms are better

wayoutthere 7y ago
The Valve Index is actually pretty good at this. It's not quite 180, but somewhere around 130 which is good enough to give you decent peripheral vision. I feel like the next generation of VR will be a lot closer. Also, the main thing holding back VR right now is the amount of graphics horsepower required to run complex games at high resolutions and refresh rates of 90-120fps. I don't think there are any cards on the market that can run the Index at native resolution in most games (the software will scale the resolution to your hardware).
chinesempire 7y ago
Actually for Formula 1 racing games VR is just perfect In fact it's the tool used to simulate field of view on F1 cars and how they tested the halo https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/screen-shot-2018-03-20-at-3-26-52-pm-1521574045.png https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images... My girlfriend's mother has a genetic disorder of the eyes called retinitis pigmentosa which causes tunnel vision. VR is the tool she uses to explain to medical students how it feels to suffer from it.
zlsa 7y ago
VR is still new, and with a 180 degree field of view, either the pixel-per-degrees would be painfully low (very low-resolution) or it would be high-resolution, but no computer would be able to push all the pixels.

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FIELD OF VISION. Why can’t VR people understand that humans are used to ultra wide vision angle? Peeping into a VR headset removes all peripheral vision, meani

by d--b 7y ago

wayoutthere 7y ago
The Valve Index is actually pretty good at this. It's not quite 180, but somewhere around 130 which is good enough to give you decent peripheral vision. I feel like the next generation of VR will be a lot closer. Also, the main thing holding back VR right now is the amount of graphics horsepower required to run complex games at high resolutions and refresh rates of 90-120fps. I don't think there are any cards on the market that can run the Index at native resolution in most games (the software will scale the resolution to your hardware).
chinesempire 7y ago
Actually for Formula 1 racing games VR is just perfect In fact it's the tool used to simulate field of view on F1 cars and how they tested the halo https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/screen-shot-2018-03-20-at-3-26-52-pm-1521574045.png https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images... My girlfriend's mother has a genetic disorder of the eyes called retinitis pigmentosa which causes tunnel vision. VR is the tool she uses to explain to medical students how it feels to suffer from it.
zlsa 7y ago
VR is still new, and with a 180 degree field of view, either the pixel-per-degrees would be painfully low (very low-resolution) or it would be high-resolution, but no computer would be able to push all the pixels.