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This is the metaverse we should be funding, not phones strapped on bulky blindfolds.
by cblconfederate 5y ago
This is the metaverse we should be funding, not phones strapped on bulky blindfolds.
- charcircuit 5y agoGive it 5 years and VR will not be bulky at all.
- throwaway946513 5y agoFull Dive VR coming soon
- foxfluff 5y agoFive years ago, the avegant glyph seemed reasonably small for an HMD (well, if you could get it without the earphones). I feel like we've regressed from that point.
- charcircuit 5y agoThat HMD only had a FoV of 45 degrees. The current technology which is production ready is optics using pancake lenses. For an example look at Huawei's VR glasses or HTC's Vive Flow.
- foxfluff 5y agoYea, I actually consider the smaller FOV a feature. Doesn't necessarily have to be 45 degrees, but I'm not interested in covering my entire field of view. I want a monitor for work, not for games and movies. Immersion doesn't matter, but the comfort of not needing to cup my eyes sure does.
- maximus-decimus 5y agoThe whole point of VR is immersion. It's literally called Virtual Reality. What you seem to want is just a screen strapped to your head with some lenses to make it look further. Why do you want that exactly? Portability? Space saving?
- foxfluff 5y agoYeah I never said I want VR. I want head mounted displays to free me from bulky & expensive monitors that require lots of desk space and aren't available when travelling with a laptop. And if you can see around the HMD and reach for the coffee cup on the desk without having to look through cameras as you can with the glyph, I consider it a good design. Unfortunately the whole market seems to have developed around multimedia consumption and immersion.
- cblconfederate 5y agoit will still be a blindfold. I dont get the entusiasm about a wearable form factor. i d much rather have 5 screens around me In any case brain implants are the ultimate input device, which will solves a major information bottleneck for work in general.
- charcircuit 5y agoWith VR you can have as many screens as you want. Though you'll need a high resolution headset for it to look good.
- cblconfederate 5y agoAnd FOV. The virtual screen is a nice gimmick but gets old quick imho. OTOH brain implants provide for information exchange that is orders of magnitude faster, even if it is just text, as we do here.
- arbitrage 5y agoGood VR has been five years out since 1993.
- charcircuit 5y agoWhat's your point? The standard of what's good keeps improving.