The wall behind my monitors is less than 2 meters away from my eyes.
As I’ve said a few times in these VP threads, I think isolation is about where we put our attention and for how long, not about what device we use. If someone chooses to use the VP as an escape, it’s likely they’re already using their other devices as escapes. I don’t see any reason (except for maybe movies) to think that a socially/mentally healthy person who wants to use the VP to help with productivity and provide some leisure will become socially withdrawn or unstable because of the device itself. It would be because of other factors in their life. So again I hold that devices are not at fault, but just the people who abuse them, and the content companies who prey on addiction.
That’s a good point, but why can’t one focus 20 ft away while using a headset? Can’t it produce a virtual object that looks to your eyes—and so for all intents and purposes is—20 ft away? Or at the very least can’t one also close their eyes and focus willy nilly (which is why I assume one’s eyes don’t get strained while they sleep)?
Depends what you mean by crystal clear? The pixels are supposedly indistinguishable, but according to some reviewers and people who've tried it, you'll notice muted colours compared to the real world and fringing on the edges because of the lenses. If all you want is "I can't see individual pixels" then you're in luck, but this is still just a very good display, it won't be like seeing looking at things in the real world.
In VR, the actual focus distance doesn't change with the virtual object distance*, just the vergence of your eyes changes.
Well specifically I'm talking about the things being rendered by the device. Things like apps, videos etc. Everyone confirms those are crystal clear and as if you are looking at the content on a 4k screen. The pass through is definitely not perfect thats for sure. Seems to be issues with dimming and motion blur etc when specifically looking through the device just at your surroundings. But I am more interested in the apps and digital elements that are being overlayed on top of the pass through.
One reviewer also mentions that because what you see is only as good as the cameras there are issues in low light. In particular with motion blur and noise reduction. They also mention colour gamut. The reviewer estimated the colour gamut is about 54% of the human perceivable colour pallet. For comparison most colour accurate monitors do about 96-98%.
I understand what they are saying, I just don't think it's relevant. I don't think most of the things you bring up are complete non-issues, but you exaggerate their importance, and minimize the importance of the same issue in other contexts.
You might be referencing a different review, but this was the stat I saw in the Verge review:
And yeah, I think some of the issues are down to the cameras (especially when in low light, etc) but I'm not 100% on which specific issues persist in fully virtual environments.
Yup. That's in relation to the pass-through specifically. Nilay from the Verge was the one who brought it up. He said everything rendered on top of the pass-through is great. It's when you start looking at your actual environment through it that you run into issues since it can't recreate all the colors the human eye typically sees and there are always limitation with looking at things through a camera that you just don't have when looking at the same things with your own eyes directly.
Weird, I’m going to have to dust off my Rift when I get a chance and see. I got it a long time ago but life got crazy and could never find a lot of time for it.
I was told that by another user but I can’t wrap my head around how seeing virtual objects of varying virtual distances with stereo vision can all require the same unchanging depth focus… I guess I’ll find out how when I get my Rift set up again.
