Apple Vision Pro Supports Up to 100Hz Refresh Rate

[Surf Monkey]

A meaningless distinction.

Not at all. We have no idea what the implications of staring into these screens for hours on end are. It isn’t the same as looking directly at the world, no matter how much people wish it was.

 

[woolypants]

A faster Intel box that just boots Windows and plays Windows games

Oh man. This reminds me of some of the replies I've seen in the MacRumors forums over the years.

In the last decade or two people have defiantly stated they would give up Apple products unless the next model included...

1. BluRay drive. This was my favourite. Apple was phasing out physical media. Doofuses on here wanted not only a reversal of that, but a drive that Apple had never used anywhere.
2. Midnight blue and/or some other colour they really like and has been used on Watches/iPhones. Apple should sell little paint points so people can fix this DIY, I reckon.
3. 3nm chips! Such a weird obsession with this. Some people claimed a drop of 2nm in chip fab was actually driving their buying decision... Dude. Open the window. Get some fresh air. Enter the world outside. Talk to other humans. Maybe this won't be that big an obsession for you then.
4. The latest Intel chips that had just been announced with a fuzzy release date. I mean, aside from the fact that Intel's quality was dropping like a stone, so that you wouldn't want to touch the next gen chips at that time until you'd seen them in action, this was always such utter misunderstanding of how Apple works. Apple used the right silicon from Intel. Not always the latest. Not necessarily the greatest. Sometimes they effectively had their own chip SKUs that were rarely if ever found in other manufacturer devices.
5. AMD!
6. Bigger! Or smaller! But people really want Apple to produce the perfect device for their physical characteristics. Weirdly, some YouTube reviewers get snarled-up on this, too. OK, dude. I appreciate you just love the iPhone Mini. But Apple's own commercial data indicates you're an outlier. Most people don't. Move on. Stop. Repeating. The. Same. Argument!

 

[falkon-engine]

Well, I could speak with many people that would agree that iPhone was like any other smartphone, except it turned the whole screen into a keyboard and was lacking normal keyboard. The point is still, that we all feel so clever in hindsight!

We will see! I'm certainly cheering Apple on.

 

[wigby]

Can you show any evidence of this, even anecdotal? I've been around online VR communities for a while, and I don't recall any cases of someone being fine with 120Hz, but being sickened by 90Hz.

60 Hz VR will give me a headache, but that's because 60 Hz is below the flicker threshold. 90 Hz should be above the flicker threshold for just about everyone.

All other things being equal, higher refresh rates are better, but there will always be tradeoffs. However, in the 90 Hz+ range comfort won't be significantly affected by a 33% increase in the refresh rate.

I don't know if there have been any studies but all the anecdotal evidence is common among experts, developers and users in the VR industry. VR experts claim there is a substantial difference between 90Hz and 120Hz. https://www.lifewire.com/rumored-oculus-quest-2-update-could-mean-smoother-vr-experts-say-5113299