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I remember trying it at PAX and was disappointed the effect didn't feel that strong to me either. I almost felt like something was broken or not calibrated sinc
by allenu 3y ago
I remember trying it at PAX and was disappointed the effect didn't feel that strong to me either. I almost felt like something was broken or not calibrated since I could sense some 3D-ness, but it didn't jump out as truly 3D.
I agree that the controls (a wand?) didn't feel so natural.
I saw videos and followed the project a bit before finally trying it in person, so I felt let down a little.
- jgennis 3y agoI believe we tuned the interpupillary distance (IPD) down a bit for the demos at PAX. The IPD is a software setting that changes how far apart the two stereo images are drawn from. If it's set to a distance larger than the actual distance between your eyes then you'll perceive it as very strange (each eye seeing a different thing that your brain can't unify), and it will be very uncomfortable. If the IPD setting is set to a distance less than the actual distance between your eyes then you won't perceive as much depth when looking at it, but it's still fairly comfortable. The extreme version of this is just looking at normal monoscopic images (e.g. watching a movie) - perfectly comfortable, but no depth perceived from it. Rather than adjusting it for each person we gave the demo to, we set the IPD a bit low so that it'd be comfortable for everyone, but people with a larger physical IPD wouldn't perceive as much depth. Sorry you felt let down by it.
- allenu 3y agoThank you for the explanation. If I get another chance, I'll give it another try with that in mind.