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What stops you from having multiple windows on your desktop? Oculus sucks at displaying text - it's low resolution (half of 1080p), it has crazy chromatic abbe

What stops you from having multiple windows on your desktop? Oculus sucks at displaying text - it's low resolution (half of 1080p), it has crazy chromatic abberations, and you have to transform "spherize" your image to correct for the lens distortion, further reducting the resolution. Oculus is not light - it's pretty annoying to wear it for longer than 20-30 minutes.

Tojiro 12y ago
This is all true of the hardware as it exists right now. By the same token the original iPhone was low res, slow, only 2G, and bulky. The iPhone 4 (first with retina display) came out only 3 years later. That's a huge leap in such a short period of time. If VR catches on at all you can expect it to see the same type of acceleration.
- moron4hire 12y ago
  Yeah, that was kind of a motivation for me. I was sick of standing around, talking about what was or was not good for VR, with people who didn't even own a Rift, let alone program anything for it.
ibrahima 12y ago
I think the version based on the Note 4 is 2560x1440 so that's already quite a big leap up. Give it two years and we might have usable text editing maybe?
keerthiko 12y ago
Nothing stops me from having multiple windows on my 13" desktop. But it's clunky to bounce between, and makes me lose context too easily ctrl/alt+shift/+tab/~/1/2/3-ing through my browser or text editor or output window. With a multi-display, I can just turn my face over or glance and look at what I need and be back in context right away. I mean, I hope I don't have to explain why multiple monitors are nice (for most people). The same is conceivable with a VR solution. That makes it awesome. As for the problems you mention, all extremely solvable. I'm sure you were alive when people were editing text on lower resolution displays. Lens technology for dealing with a great extent CA exists, it just needs to be tuned for VR settings. I could lie down and use it. Lighter materials could be used in future versions. It could be made disassemblable for easier packing/storage. I have faith in our current generation of technologists to make these things and more happen before my development career sunsets :)

Tojiro 12y ago

This is all true of the hardware as it exists right now. By the same token the original iPhone was low res, slow, only 2G, and bulky. The iPhone 4 (first with retina display) came out only 3 years later. That's a huge leap in such a short period of time. If VR catches on at all you can expect it to see the same type of acceleration.

moron4hire 12y ago
Yeah, that was kind of a motivation for me. I was sick of standing around, talking about what was or was not good for VR, with people who didn't even own a Rift, let alone program anything for it.

ibrahima 12y ago

I think the version based on the Note 4 is 2560x1440 so that's already quite a big leap up. Give it two years and we might have usable text editing maybe?

keerthiko 12y ago

Nothing stops me from having multiple windows on my 13" desktop. But it's clunky to bounce between, and makes me lose context too easily ctrl/alt+shift/+tab/~/1/2/3-ing through my browser or text editor or output window. With a multi-display, I can just turn my face over or glance and look at what I need and be back in context right away. I mean, I hope I don't have to explain why multiple monitors are nice (for most people). The same is conceivable with a VR solution. That makes it awesome. As for the problems you mention, all extremely solvable. I'm sure you were alive when people were editing text on lower resolution displays. Lens technology for dealing with a great extent CA exists, it just needs to be tuned for VR settings. I could lie down and use it. Lighter materials could be used in future versions. It could be made disassemblable for easier packing/storage. I have faith in our current generation of technologists to make these things and more happen before my development career sunsets :)