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SvennoJ on 20 March 2012
Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:
VGKing said:
zero129 said:
Sony's 3D helmet beat's MS's one, sony's one makes it look like you're looking at a 700" screen, the MS one only offers 21" :P xD .
Now really i like the idea of the whole augmented reality part of it, but i could never see myself waring this thing, same with the sony helmet, not a chance..

I belive the Sony one is only 150". Take a look.

21" is pretty small so it should be a lot more affordable than the Sony one. If it's only 2D then that cuts the price in half. So I can totally see something like this being bundled into a next-gen system.


I thought this was gonna be an impossibility but your comment did open my eyes a bit.

The size the screen appears to be has nothing to do with the cost. Resolution and type of display is what matters, the rest is simple optical illusion. The sony has 2 OLED 1280x720 screens. It supports 3D, only supporting 2D doesn't make it cheaper, you still need 2 screens.
The Sony one costs $1200,-. Even a 852x480 vizor has no chance of being included with a console for the time being.
(A professional 1920x1080 set with headtracking will still set you back 30K btw)

I was considering getting one at one point to watch 3D movies, but $1200 for 720p is too much.



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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 20 March 2012
SvennoJ said:
Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:
VGKing said:
zero129 said:
Sony's 3D helmet beat's MS's one, sony's one makes it look like you're looking at a 700" screen, the MS one only offers 21" :P xD .
Now really i like the idea of the whole augmented reality part of it, but i could never see myself waring this thing, same with the sony helmet, not a chance..

I belive the Sony one is only 150". Take a look.

21" is pretty small so it should be a lot more affordable than the Sony one. If it's only 2D then that cuts the price in half. So I can totally see something like this being bundled into a next-gen system.


I thought this was gonna be an impossibility but your comment did open my eyes a bit.

The size the screen appears to be has nothing to do with the cost. Resolution and type of display is what matters, the rest is simple optical illusion. The sony has 2 OLED 1280x720 screens. It supports 3D, only supporting 2D doesn't make it cheaper, you still need 2 screens.
The Sony one costs $1200,-. Even a 852x480 vizor has no chance of being included with a console for the time being.
(A professional 1920x1080 set with headtracking will still set you back 30K btw)

I was considering getting one at one point to watch 3D movies, but $1200 for 720p is too much.


Which is the reason why MS is building a cheap one... Like what Samsung did to Sony Bravia in the tv business. 



Yay!!!

crissindahouse on 20 March 2012

hmm i would like to have 30" screen talking about this arm lenghts distance but the idea is good. and i really don't care what my neighbours would think seeing me through the window.

first of all, i did never care what others think about me when they see me as long as i didn't try to date them and then, people nowadays are jumping in front of the tv, putting huge glasses on the face watching 3d movies, so why should they even wonder about me nowadays? lol



Dallinor on 21 March 2012
Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:


Which is the reason why MS is building a cheap one... Like what Samsung did to Sony Bravia in the tv business. 

I'd imagine trying to create and push something like this would be astronomically expensive.

MS would want to have a lot of faith in the device to travel down that road.



 

D-Joe on 21 March 2012

are you guys thinking too much
well,some people really love try every way to blame MS,even that thing just a add on or you will never seen
not only that,this news already posted
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=141446&page=1



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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 21 March 2012

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=141446&page=1#


binary solo on 21 March 2012
Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:
SvennoJ said:
Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:
VGKing said:
zero129 said:
Sony's 3D helmet beat's MS's one, sony's one makes it look like you're looking at a 700" screen, the MS one only offers 21" :P xD .
Now really i like the idea of the whole augmented reality part of it, but i could never see myself waring this thing, same with the sony helmet, not a chance..

I belive the Sony one is only 150". Take a look.

21" is pretty small so it should be a lot more affordable than the Sony one. If it's only 2D then that cuts the price in half. So I can totally see something like this being bundled into a next-gen system.


I thought this was gonna be an impossibility but your comment did open my eyes a bit.

The size the screen appears to be has nothing to do with the cost. Resolution and type of display is what matters, the rest is simple optical illusion. The sony has 2 OLED 1280x720 screens. It supports 3D, only supporting 2D doesn't make it cheaper, you still need 2 screens.
The Sony one costs $1200,-. Even a 852x480 vizor has no chance of being included with a console for the time being.
(A professional 1920x1080 set with headtracking will still set you back 30K btw)

I was considering getting one at one point to watch 3D movies, but $1200 for 720p is too much.


Which is the reason why MS is building a cheap one... Like what Samsung did to Sony Bravia in the tv business. 

Even if they made it for 1/4 of the price that's still $300, it might be an accessory sold separately for nextbox, but at that price there's no way it would be a pack in item for every unit. As it is MS will be packing in Kinect 2.0 with every nextbox, packing in 2 non-essential peripherals seems like a bit much.

But you never know.



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Jumpin on 21 March 2012

Sega VR Helmet? Virtual Boy?



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Porcupine_I on 21 March 2012

i keep wondering if there is a required special software called "Patentshop" that makes every patent graphically look like it was filed about 200 years ago



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Lostplanet22 on 21 March 2012

Reminds me of psychonauts!