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Let's see... my 1920x1200 monitor is about 20" wide and my eyes are usually about 20" away from it. That's 60 degrees of vision. I don't know what the horizonta

Let's see... my 1920x1200 monitor is about 20" wide and my eyes are usually about 20" away from it. That's 60 degrees of vision. I don't know what the horizontal FOV for the AVP is, but found a claim of 110 degrees online. If that's true, I should have around 2000 pixels (horizontal) available for my 1920 monitor. That sounds good on paper, but having used virtual screens in VR I can assure you it's not. The virtual screen has to be scaled to fit the space it's supposed to occupy on your headset's display. Thanks to perspective, the virtual screen will never scale linearly with your headset's display no matter where you position it relative to your head. And every time you move your head, that scaling will shift slightly. I'd guess a 1080p virtual screen at comfortable viewing distance in the AVP will be a muddled mess.

jsheard 3y ago
Adding to this, your 24" (I think?) 1200p monitor is on the lower end of pixel density at 94dpi, so even if the Vision Pro can produce a similar experience to your monitor it would still be a significant downgrade from any computer display that Apple currently makes, which nowadays are 220-250dpi across the board.
- CivBase 3y ago
  Yeah, it's just a basic 24" Dell office monitor from 2014. Actually, I have two of them. The primary appeal of the VR desktop is that you'd effectively have infinite screens which can dynamically adapt to the content. But I suspect the sacrifice to visual clarity will be enough to scare away most people from using it that way. Maybe it would work with 8K+ displays? If you can crank the DPI high enough, I could see the VR desktop taking off. I just think 4K probably isn't enough to make it worthwhile for most people - at least not for extended, professional use.
  - jsheard 3y ago
    Yeah, this is all solvable if they can increase the resolution enough. That's not really up to Apple though, they're already on the absolute bleeding edge of display technology with the Vision Pro so now they have to wait for the display manufacturers to come up with something better, and get the prices down.

jsheard 3y ago

Adding to this, your 24" (I think?) 1200p monitor is on the lower end of pixel density at 94dpi, so even if the Vision Pro can produce a similar experience to your monitor it would still be a significant downgrade from any computer display that Apple currently makes, which nowadays are 220-250dpi across the board.

CivBase 3y ago
Yeah, it's just a basic 24" Dell office monitor from 2014. Actually, I have two of them. The primary appeal of the VR desktop is that you'd effectively have infinite screens which can dynamically adapt to the content. But I suspect the sacrifice to visual clarity will be enough to scare away most people from using it that way. Maybe it would work with 8K+ displays? If you can crank the DPI high enough, I could see the VR desktop taking off. I just think 4K probably isn't enough to make it worthwhile for most people - at least not for extended, professional use.
- jsheard 3y ago
  Yeah, this is all solvable if they can increase the resolution enough. That's not really up to Apple though, they're already on the absolute bleeding edge of display technology with the Vision Pro so now they have to wait for the display manufacturers to come up with something better, and get the prices down.