4K displays

[Thespen Tombs]

So simple question will the next gen GPUs be able to handle 4K VR and how long do you think till we get 4K?

If the new GPUs are good enough, I'm hoping within 18 months

 

[Loworbit]

I'll skip this VR version and stick with my DK2. I hope the next gen will be 4k.

 

[BigDuke6ixx]

I'll skip this VR version and stick with my DK2. I hope the next gen will be 4k.

It won't be long before the DK2 gets bricked.

 

[tsh]

Display upgrade ought to be a simple hardware hack - and I have nothing today, so will be happy if upgrades are feasible in 12 months.

 

[Tucker Dale]

It won't be long before the DK2 gets bricked.

Do you have informations about that?

 

[maxpare79]

4k at 90fps stereoscopic rendering not even Pascal and Polaris will pull that off..in 5 to 10 years probably but not for GEN2...gen4 maybe

 

[Heavenly-Hammer]

I'll skip this VR version and stick with my DK2. I hope the next gen will be 4k.

lol.

4K in each eye is at least 2 years out.

 

[ltx]

Gen2 or Gen3 will probably be 4K (2K x 2K per eye) in 2-3 years, if VR doesn't die.

 

[BigDuke6ixx]

Do you have informations about that?

Let me turn that around and ask you for how long oculus home will support the DK2?

 

[[HJ]-RedRaven]

So simple question will the next gen GPUs be able to handle 4K VR and how long do you think till we get 4K?

If the new GPUs are good enough, I'm hoping within 18 months

Hope harder... I think it'll be significantly longer than that. 4K per eye is 8K total, at what, 90fps? Yikes.

Certainly doable, but I imagine that'll be, yeah, Gen 3 to 5... possibly 5 years away.

 

[jabokai]

Presumably eye tracking, and only rendering what the person is looking at in the most detail, can also help here - so we won't have to render the whole display at that resolution. I'm pretty sure VR research will be looking into this already.

 

[megadonkeyx]

some chinese company just showed a 4k headset called the Pimax P1.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2016-01/10/c_128612970.htm

no im not buying it. interestingly they seem to have some inbuilt upscaling to deal with lower end hardware and its 60hz, still tho 4k.

 

[HeavyGroovez]

So simple question will the next gen GPUs be able to handle 4K VR and how long do you think till we get 4K?

If the new GPUs are good enough, I'm hoping within 18 months

4k @ 90Hz will require some serious horsepower

Dont see it happening for a long time.

 

[Thespen Tombs]

If they can get SLI /Crossfire working well then it's only 4k per card which should help, maybe

 

[Kietrax]

Let me turn that around and ask you for how long oculus home will support the DK2?

According to their own web site - it is not supported today as a consumer product but will continue to work this year: "DK2 will continue to be supported as a development platform in 2016".

 

[cmdr awesome]

As others have said it's not the hardware its the rendering horsepower. Fovean rendering techniques with eye tracking and pascal GPUs will hopefully make a bump in resolution viable within 2-3 years.

 

[shadragon]

Have faith in Capitalism. As soon as someone can sell 4K per eye, they will.