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Looks like same aspheric lenses as the crystal uses in 35ppd config and same size panels (probably exact same panel if you go for the mini led variant. The crsytal with 35 ppd lenses apparently has an fov of
Relative to PCVR users it’s a very good price.
My FOV is massive and it'a growing!
The benefit of dynamic FR compared to fixed can be as low as a single digit percentage, especially if the sweet spot is narrow. That's why many PC headsets, even premium, don't bother with it and instead focus on form factor and design (like the Bigscreen Beyond).
Yeah yeah but its Fixed foveated rendering 2.0 this will blow your mind, who needs eye tracking!
Sadly HL:Alyx was the first and last AAA VR game
No, they just tried to save on cost by excluding it. I can't believe you're trying to treat dynamic foveated rendering as the one with "limitations". Fixed is the 'limited' tech. Having eye tracking means you can do whatever fixed foveated rendering does.
A Quest 3 is half. Thats a good price.
Have you tried racing games in VR? Automobilista 2 is stunning!!
Why are you going to the "bigscreen beyond" to suggest it's not down to cost and DFR is "limited" or useless? Just look at what this product is. It's the budget $700 "light" version of a higher end $1500 system.
What are you showing here? That Eye Tracking Foveated Rendering provides more GPU savings? OK?
Because you're not making sense. You're pretending this is because DFR is not beneficial and that it's limited yet it isn't limited and is beneficial. The reason it's cut is mainly due to budget. Much like the Switch Lite might be 4g lighter than a Switch regular or OLED but that doesn't negate the fact that OLED is better and beneficial and the main reason it doesn't include it in the Lite is because the Lite was designed to be a cheaper device.You don't want to understand what I'm explaining, it's exhausting.
First, I didn't say DFR is more limited than FFR, second I said that the BB cut eyetracking because of form factor and design BECAUSE the limited efficiency benefit compared to FFR.
Gunman Contracts standalone is coming. Its a mod for HL: Alyx that turns you into John Wick.
Fixed Foveated Rendering.
ugh, this again, GPU saving is rather useless in this comparison, eye tracking is used so thet you dont have to move your head to get a constant clear picture, we know that the saving between FFR and DFR is negligible (although you can be more aggressive with the range with DFR because the whole point is you cannot look at the lower resolution part of the screen). You also get other benefits with the eye tracking such as object selection.You don't want to understand what I'm explaining, it's exhausting.
First, I didn't say DFR is more limited than FFR, second I said that the BB cut eye-tracking because of form factor and design because the TENDENCY of limited efficiency BENEFIT COMPARED to FFR. When it comes to BB, this is evident from their youtube video where they tested and endorsed a customer mod for eye-tracking while explaining why they cut it from the vanilla version. There's no use in making conspiracy theories out of this.
I know what Foveated Rendering is, Fixed is also done in software, what I am questioning is the '2.0' part of it which sounds like its doing something different (which I doubt it is)
Ironic considering I have a phd in physics of all things.
You're not discussing in good faith here and trying to oversell the lack of a useful feature like DFR. Why compare to BB and say it's not in highend headsets when the highend version of the exact same headset exists in the regular Pimax Crystal. The lack of Eyetracking DFR has not changed the cheaper Pimax Crystal Light's form factor at all either. They could very easily have eyetracking in the form factor the Light version has, it doesn't add bulk. The reason it's smaller is mostly due to the fact that the cheaper Light is wired only and has no battery.
Yes it is. I have one although that doesn’t have dimmable zones so blacks are grey.
And how are they getting that performance? by rendering what you see directly in your line of sight at full resolution, while in your peripheral vision at lower resolution (and usually blurred slightly so its not too noticeable as being blocky).... with eye tracked that moves depending on where you are looking, so you ALWAYS see full resolution in front of your eyes, yes there is slight distortion on the edges of lenses, depending on the lenses used (the lens flaws you entioned, but I was not talking about that, I was talking about resolution), but with FFR only the center of the display is full resolution, the edges are lower resolution, so if you look to the edges its low resolution you have to move your head to bring that back to the center to get full resolution again.
500 vs 700 is half?
I read this in Trump voice
The previous version of the crystal was $1600, I managed to get it for $1300 on a deal online, so yeah... $700 is quite affordable for what it is. Not sure how the quality of this one stacks to the previous crystal, but they are quite high end devices.
Come on, if you're into racing and flight sims there's plenty to enjoy. Especially racing of course. The secret for VR success in gaming is the possibility to play normal AAA flat screen games in VR. Not games made for vr specifically.
I'm comparing used to new. My bad. But still 700 isnt really in everyone's price range.
What eye-tracking is and does is all down to the software so I don't really agree with this statement - it trivialises the benefits and possibilities. Eye-tracking is not purely for performance gains, it just happens to be one thing it can really help with. It's also not just a sometime UI navigation thing either.
Beat me to it, haha.
Lots of sims enthusiasts would love this headset. Plenty of high end driving and flying VR games
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point is that we can not "set lens distortion aside". Much of the benefit of rendering at higher resolutions, outside of the sweet spot, are lost in real world use cases. Obviously, future developments will mitigate this fact, and eye tracking will become more beneficial than it is with most currently available headsets. My limited use of PSVR2 drove this point home. The sweet spot is so small that eye tracking loses many of its benefits (outside of potential streaming optimization).
