maybe, they stopped the production for steam link a while ago
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they moved their focus on manufacturing the new device?
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Fuck yes :D
I bet on this happening a while ago, its been rumored for at least six months that Valve has had three games in the making. One of them turned out to be a card game but I had a feeling something would get released with the Knuckles to show off its tech, and was hoping it'd be Half Life or Portal related. Very excited for the Knuckles to finally get released
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A 135° field of view with Vive Pro resolution panels should result in roughly the same angular resolution as the current HTC Vive.
Well, there goes my excitement. I tried VR for a few weeks, and I thought the resolution was awful - it was like stepping back in time from 1080p to 640x480 with huge pixels everywhere. Much of my frustrating with playing Lone Echo is that the resolution wasn't good enough for me to be able to see the things the game clearly wanted me to be able to see. As a result I was stumbling around, trying to find the blurry thing that was supposed to be the object I was looking for - and that was in a made for VR game. In standard PC games, like Project Cars or Euro Truck Simulator, things looked even worse.
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With the Rift / Vive's 1080x1200, it was really blurry and pixelated. I'm surprised that 1280x1440 would be a significant difference, I would think you'd need something like the 1440x1600 of the Vive Pro to make it look significantly sharper.
Though if you spread out those pixels across a wider FoV like this rumoured headset, then you're back to blurry screen-door land.
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But which headset were you using? Both the Vive and the Rift run at effectively 2160×1200.
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I was using the Rift, and it's actually 1080x1200 since it's per eye. But while 1080x1200 looks great from 2' away, it looks awful when pressed up against your eyeball - screen door effect as far as the eye can see (which, granted, isn't very far given the limited field of view).
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Thank you for clarifying. I have never used a VR headset. I was just under the impression that their screens were very high resolution.
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The problem is that the screens are held in place centimeters from your eyeballs. It's going to be quite a few generations of VR I think before we manage to get rid of the screen door effect, I have no problem getting immersed with the OG Vive but text is blurry because of the resolution, the Vive Pro has sharper text that is more readable but the resolution bump is still not significant enough to even start getting rid of the kind of complaints brought up by Tim.
I think it's amazing already, like having a futuristic arcade machine hooked up to your computer, but it's not on the level of Ready Player One or anything. It will be one day though, and a lot cheaper :P
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Actually it won't take generations... the screen door effect already is almost gone with the Samsung Odyssey+.
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That's very interesting and exciting stuff, the Odyssey + completely slipped past my radar. I'll be curious to see some impressions of it after people get used to using it
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It'll be available for just $299 (instead of the regular $499) this coming Back Friday. And there's already many reviews out there, even showing the differences through the lenses.
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Your eyes are centimeters from the screen, with magnifying glasses between the two. It's kind of like holding a giant magnifying glass up to your 1080p monitor. On paper, it sounds like they should be sharp and crisp given the resolution. In practice, anything other than the Vive Pro looks like stepping back in time to 640x480.
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If that is true this will be a failure. 135° is not nearly enough when others go for 200° (PIMAX) or even 230° (StarVR).
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The narrow view is the most disturbing thing about the current generation of HMDs, if you ask me. Even more so than low pixel density. There is a reason the new models go for 200+ degrees. I don't know how they could even "use 135° well", as the narrow FOV is the core problem here. Sure, it's a little better than the old Vive. But with that FOV I doubt it will even be close to PIMAX/StarVR. I honestly was expecting the new Vive to go for something similar. Well, let's see if this information is really accurate and if there's maybe something else the new Vive can bring to the table, other than FOV and resolution.
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The success also depends on the price, maybe they are not using the most recent technology to sell it as cheap as possible. Valve don't make money with hardware but with software so let's imagine a bundle with a headset, a knuckle controler and Half Life VR for 599€ or maybe 499. I would buy one.
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Even if they state that sources are legit, take it as a rumor until Valve confirms. Read the article here.
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