Is VR dead?

[ltnordb]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620729001152237569

 

[RCHeliguy]

Looks like many are paying their respects now.

 

[blekenbleu]

oversized RTX 4090

Sometimes, size is the only thing.

 

[blekenbleu]

paying their respects

With M$ abandoning VR, HP would need to develop new firmware for a supported API.

 

[RCHeliguy]

Lots of great news....

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Lots of great news....

 

[blekenbleu]

Presumably anticipating Apple's announcement and Sony's availability,
Samsung announced that it "will transform the future of the mobile industry
by building the XR ecosystem together with Qualcomm and Google."
"It will take time to introduce new products,
but we will make progress and provide you with new updates."

 

[RCHeliguy]

AR will take off once we have smart phone integration.
The combination of Samsung and Google could make that happen.
Of course Apple will be doing the same thing.

 

[GeekyDeaks]

Little bit more in-game footage with GT7 and the PSVR2

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Wish there were something through the lens instead of mirrored screen footage.

 

[gamma123152]

Little bit more in-game footage with GT7 and the PSVR2

I understand that GT7 runs on 60fps with motion reprojection at 120hz. What a disappointment, I hate reprojection.

 

[GeekyDeaks]

I understand that GT7 runs on 60fps with motion reprojection at 120hz. What a disappointment, I hate reprojection.

Well, since the game only supports 60fps on a TV, I don't think that is too surprising. That it can still achieve that in VR seems to me a pretty decent feat with the hardware at hand. I don't think most people in this thread are the target audience for this though, as I can buy the whole setup here in the UK for less than I can get a 4070ti

 

[blekenbleu]

MIT claims stacked RGB LEDs packed to 5,100 pixels per inch.
"Near-submicron thick" membranes of red, green, and blue LEDs are grown,
then peeled from base wafers and stacked to a height of around 9 µm.
"We're able to create all the mixed colors,
and our display can cover close to the commercial color space that's available."
...
"You need a system to control 25 million LEDs separately.
Here, we've only partially demonstrated that.
The active matrix operation is something we'll need to further develop."

 

[RCHeliguy]

Hmmm.....

BTW at 9+ minutes he mentions an effort to save Echo Arena and make it LAN based and even potentially reverse engineering the servers.

 

[Deleted member 197115]

 

[RCHeliguy]

Valve has turned over the lighthouse 2.0 production to HTC.

But before some of you make assumptions that they are going to inside out exclusively, they are supposed to be working on a 3.0 version of the lighthouses.

I think this may point to freeing up resources for the next gen headset. From what I understand (still rumors) they will replace the hand controllers, lighthouses (optionally) and of course the headset, so a whole refresh.

 

[Deleted member 197115]

Another possibility is that they are not interested in VR anymore and as many 3rd parties depend on their lighthouses, handed over production to the partner, perhaps even along with IP.

 

[gamma123152]

Another possibility is that they are not interested in VR anymore and as many 3rd parties depend on their lighthouses, handed over production to the partner, perhaps even along with IP.

Let's be optimistic. Foxconn also assembles the iPhones for Apple. Most brands outsouce their production as we all know. There's at this moment no reason to assume that.

 

[Deleted member 197115]

I think it's speculation on both ends. Even Valve seem like cannot make up their mind on what to do with VR.
Remember the big VR department layoff in 2019.
And after that there was more recent insider info on Valve VR "plans" or a lack thereof.

 

[RCHeliguy]

More recently they've been hiring for VR related HW development.