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It will be interesting to see what the displays are like. AR is _very_ hard for a number of reasons: 1) the screens are really difficult to get right: too bri
by KaiserPro 3y ago
It will be interesting to see what the displays are like.
AR is _very_ hard for a number of reasons:
1) the screens are really difficult to get right: too bright and you have no battery/burn your face, too dim and you've got really effective sunglasses
2) if you don't have local dimming (ie being able to take away light rather than emit it) then everything looks shit
3) input is super hard. No keboard, no mice, no touch screen. Sure you have hand tracking, but without third party sensors, you have to have your hands in view to track them. This means gorrila arms or just plain fucking frustration.
4) without a second CPU/GPU battery box, you have no compute power. Glasses only have about enough space for 2 watt hours of battery.
5) good 6dof tracking is compute expensive without custom silicon.
- infocollector 3y ago6) I think the threshold for visual display in AR will be 4k in each eye, and 120Hz + USB-C (with mac air m4?) - is where the game will begin. I think we are getting there...
- jimmySixDOF 3y agoMeta's CTO says they will start to demo internally "the most advanced pice of consumer hardware ever developed" so we may be getting there sooner than most people think.
- KaiserPro 3y agoBoz's track record on that is not great. The thing he's talking about is already three years too late, doesn't have the display it needs, and are _fucking_ expensive[1] moreover the software is horrendously unstable. [1] https://mixed-news.com/en/meta-ar-glasses-orion-made-in-usa-the-information/ https://mixed-news.com/en/meta-ar-glasses-orion-made-in-usa-...
- DonHopkins 3y agoPlus he doesn't have a leg to stand on! ;) https://thenextweb.com/news/metaverse-no-legs-meta-microsoft-analysis https://thenextweb.com/news/metaverse-no-legs-meta-microsoft... Admittedly, Meta finally did ship the legs in 2023, but they sucked. https://kotaku.com/meta-horizon-worlds-mark-zuckerberg-avatar-legs-quest-1850789924 https://kotaku.com/meta-horizon-worlds-mark-zuckerberg-avata... >In October last year, Zuckerberg showed off the newly improved avatars and also previewed that they would all have working legs. A release date of sometime in 2023 was promised, and then a few days later we learned that the whole video featuring the legs was fake and featured mo-capped animations.
- rowanG077 3y agoI mean what else would they be demoing? The tech that is worse then what is out there right now?
- jayd16 3y agoThreshold in what sense?
- KaiserPro 3y agoI think they are hinting at parity with the resolution of the eye. however pixels is kinda misleading unit of resolution as it depends how far away you are from the display, and how wide the display is. for example a 1k square with a field of view of 3 degrees would have a better "resolution" than a 4k square over 75 degrees. You also now have to contend with focus as well,