Nvidia demos prototype lightfield VR glasses
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25 frames in place of one, which top modern hardware barely rendering? Goldmine for nvidia!
Interesting. But I read in a different article that the demoed Nvidia prototype has 2 screens of 1280 x 720 that result in an effective resolution of 146 x 78 due to the lightfield technology.
So I doubt the product that might be released in 2018 would even come close to a CV1 regarding resolution.
Not even speaking about GPU requirements.
So I doubt the product that might be released in 2018 would even come close to a CV1 regarding resolution.
Not even speaking about GPU requirements.
I tried them out at the VRLA Expo. Sorry to say, but not impressed. Dr. Huang, who built that prototype, pretty much said this won't be a product, and he barely had any funding. In his presentation, he mentioned the prototype was built with a few hundred dollars of stuff he bought on E-Bay.
He mentioned it reduces eye strain by allowing natural focusing, but I'd argue a lot of eye strain comes from focusing close. As long as HMD's have the focal point relatively far from you, I don't think eye strain is an issue. In the demo, he switched between conventional and lightfield rendering. While there was a difference, I could only tell when being compared side by side or right after another. I doubt it would be noticeable unless you were told. All this at 50x the processing power needed currently.
This might shine if you're simulating looking at things very close up. Not really something I've seen in any VR applications thus far.
He mentioned it reduces eye strain by allowing natural focusing, but I'd argue a lot of eye strain comes from focusing close. As long as HMD's have the focal point relatively far from you, I don't think eye strain is an issue. In the demo, he switched between conventional and lightfield rendering. While there was a difference, I could only tell when being compared side by side or right after another. I doubt it would be noticeable unless you were told. All this at 50x the processing power needed currently.
This might shine if you're simulating looking at things very close up. Not really something I've seen in any VR applications thus far.