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If I had money...
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I was thinking of a 3 screen display upgrade this year, but I think I will hold out for a HMD...that Natalia one may be the beginning...
I wear varifocal glasses and using TrackIr, when I look sideways...not ideal. But with a HMD, no more problems ! Also the Natalia can track your hands with its cameras. That means you could be flipping switches in mid air !:grin: for a real VR experience. Of course price goes with image size and resolution...but its becoming real, a 75 inch at 10 feet equivalent for $500 seems to be a possibility within a year (optimism is my middle name) Lou |
It will be interesting to see what their "Marina" see through goggles are like. (My wifes name by the way-so it should be easy to justify the purchace;) !!!)
I wonder if it will be similar to the Sony Glastron goggle from way back when? The only time I saw them after their paper release was on the ADF website in a "Future Soldier" presentation. Super imposing combat data and gun mounted camera image over the soldiers field of vision. Back to the Natalia, will 1280×1024 resolution be viable for our sim? I supose it depends on what it looks like with your head in the game. I remember bad attacks of motion sickness when using those early 3D virtual reality systems in the 80/90's Cheers! |
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Has anyone tried these? http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/personal-3d-viewer EDIT: Price seems to be in the same range as 30" monitors. $1270 in Amazon. EDIT EDIT: Resolution: 1280 x 720 ... never mind then. Let's wait for the real deal. Using word "HD" with 720p should be punishable by death. |
"Using word "HD" with 720p should be punishable by death."
Same for hotels that claim to have "high speed internet". binky9 |
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Possibilities are endless, and like all tech, one day these will be standard issue and probably very cheap. Look where Plasma and other flat panel tv's were ten years ago.
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imagine one of those connected to a powerful Pad, one could flightsim anywhere! :grin:
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Far more important as resolution, will be the apparent field of view (AF) of such a device.
Sony's field of view is only 45°. Have you ever watched through binoculars or telescopes equipped with eyepieces with only 45° AF? It's like looking through a barrel with the typical big black circular Border. But if you equip the same telescope with a 100°AF wide angle eypiece you'll get the feeling of looking through the window of a space ship! There are no boarders, no tunnel view, just a free floating image in front of your eyes. The prices for these optics are very high, because it's very complicated to generate a sharp image over the entire field of view so close in front of your eyes. The SENSICS solution from louisv offers 120° horizontal and 45° vertical. This is already a very good benchmark. So if I would have money..... :) |
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