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2160x2160 in each eye for the headset

moffkalast 11mo ago
110 deg fov is a bit on the low side but I guess it'll have to do. I hate how 90% of VR headsets are designed to feel like you have binoculars strapped to your face, absolutely zero peripheral vision.
- hinkley 11mo ago
  One of the reasons I put off getting corrective lenses for a long time and kept trying to use contacts despite how horrible they make my eyeballs feel, is that I have an extremely wide peripheral vision. I can see my fingers wiggle behind the plane defined by my shoulders, I will react to motion out there. Having my FoV dumbed down to 90º sounds like hell, especially in a game where we are looking for opponents. Playing Doom on a widescreen monitor with the FoV modifications made it a lot less annoying. I want that even more today.
  - reliabilityguy 11mo ago
    > I can see my fingers wiggle behind the plane defined by my shoulders I am a bit confused: you can see your shoulders while you are looking forward?
    - embedding-shape 11mo ago
      > I am a bit confused: you can see your shoulders while you are looking forward? I can just about see my shoulders when i look forward, I'd probably also say my field of vision to be "the plane of view defined by my shoulders".
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    - hinkley 11mo ago
      The normal human field of vision is about 190°, which mine is just about. If you don’t have a stoop that will catch the front edge of your shoulders. Fingers wiggling with your shoulders slightly overextended is just easier to see than a shoulder shrug. It’s the amount of compute power that my brain allows for peripheral vision that’s the only unusual thing. But it makes video games feel claustrophobic to an unpleasant degree.
  - lynnharry 11mo ago
    Have you tried rimless glasses? I don't think you need eye sight correction for your peripheral vision.
- yencabulator 11mo ago
  It's not that they're "designed to feel like", it's that the technology for better than 110 degrees just isn't there yet.
  - moffkalast 11mo ago
    There are tons of pro level headsets that go up to 170, the tech definitely exists, it's just not as cheap cause you need larger displays if you want to maintain dpi.

110 deg fov is a bit on the low side but I guess it'll have to do. I hate how 90% of VR headsets are designed to feel like you have binoculars strapped to your face, absolutely zero peripheral vision.

hinkley 11mo ago
One of the reasons I put off getting corrective lenses for a long time and kept trying to use contacts despite how horrible they make my eyeballs feel, is that I have an extremely wide peripheral vision. I can see my fingers wiggle behind the plane defined by my shoulders, I will react to motion out there. Having my FoV dumbed down to 90º sounds like hell, especially in a game where we are looking for opponents. Playing Doom on a widescreen monitor with the FoV modifications made it a lot less annoying. I want that even more today.
- reliabilityguy 11mo ago
  > I can see my fingers wiggle behind the plane defined by my shoulders I am a bit confused: you can see your shoulders while you are looking forward?
  - embedding-shape 11mo ago
    > I am a bit confused: you can see your shoulders while you are looking forward? I can just about see my shoulders when i look forward, I'd probably also say my field of vision to be "the plane of view defined by my shoulders".
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  - hinkley 11mo ago
    The normal human field of vision is about 190°, which mine is just about. If you don’t have a stoop that will catch the front edge of your shoulders. Fingers wiggling with your shoulders slightly overextended is just easier to see than a shoulder shrug. It’s the amount of compute power that my brain allows for peripheral vision that’s the only unusual thing. But it makes video games feel claustrophobic to an unpleasant degree.
- lynnharry 11mo ago
  Have you tried rimless glasses? I don't think you need eye sight correction for your peripheral vision.
yencabulator 11mo ago
It's not that they're "designed to feel like", it's that the technology for better than 110 degrees just isn't there yet.
- moffkalast 11mo ago
  There are tons of pro level headsets that go up to 170, the tech definitely exists, it's just not as cheap cause you need larger displays if you want to maintain dpi.