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It would be easier and simpler to use a portable LCD monitor. They do exist and are simpler, smaller, and cheaper than a VR headset. Tablets could have been use
by jprete 3y ago
It would be easier and simpler to use a portable LCD monitor. They do exist and are simpler, smaller, and cheaper than a VR headset. Tablets could have been used for the same use case.
But...they aren't. People don't want it. What they want is a computer so light that it's always available. Most people seem to carry phones for consumption and sometimes lightweight laptops for work.
- vel0city 3y agoI've seen a few people bust out portable secondary displays or use a tablet in screen mirroring mode. Personally, I find the experience still pretty clumsy. The monitors are still not at an ideal height, they're usually smaller than I'd like, they take up a lot of table space. I'm not sure VR headsets are going to take off from this use case, but if the VR headset is good enough, I'd imagine the experience of the floating screens would be far better than having a portable monitor. Busting out a portable wireless keyboard and putting on an HMD would be pretty neat IMO, if the HMD was good enough.
- adastra22 3y agoOr just multiple virtual displays on your laptop? There are plenty of laptops with 4K of better resolution, which is what the Vision has. VR lets you swivel your head to get more real estate, but it doesn’t let you look at more pixels at once. Not unless you zoom out, which is what exposé already does. But sure, you can strap a couple kilos of hardware to your face and take on that neck strain, disconnect yourself from the environment around you, and introduce motion sickness just to avoid pressing F3.