New VR Contestant?
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http://www.starvr.com/
Seems interesting- sorry if it was known already.[/QUOTE
You won't get to use it unless you visit a commercial outlet for, quite some time. It is not being developed for home use right now as a home pc does not have the graphics power to run it.,,,
You'd need a collection of 1080's to run any content on this 5K resolution they quote (1440p per eye).
I read one interview with HTC and Valvel where they said that they could have released Vive with higher resolution screens. The reason why they did not was that the hardware was not out there to run the content at home with those resolutions. Even with the current resolution they are limiting the potential users to the people who can afford high-end graphic cards. I'm sure Oculus/HTC would have had access to 5.5" 1440p panels if they wanted to.
I'm sure we'll get there. I'd be surprised if the next Rift/Vive would not be ~4K resolutions. It'll probably take couple years. I'm assuming that the single largest limiting factor is GPU power. At least the GPU vendors now have a motivation to spend some cash on the RD at the high-end cards. For years we've been stuck at 1080p gaming being the top focus... Now with VR picking up (hopefully) we should start to see more of the high-end stuff coming out =)
It's great that there already are some of these enterprise grade VR devices! At least we'll start to see what the future of the consumer stuff will look like.
//CMDR Sworp