| Lafiel said: The dev version uses a 1280x800(~720p) screen, but the PC needs to render the games at a higher resolution than that (afaik it's 2048x1024) to make up for distortions going on especially in your peripheral vision. Ofcourse with the 1080p screen in the consumer version that rendering resolution needs to increase aswell. I wasn't implying anything, I was using the correct terminology "rendering resolution" as opposed to "display resolution". And for most indie games a mid budget pc might be good enough, but aliasing and screen tearing are much more apparant and annoying/immersion breaking when playing a game with a VR, so you really want a pc that can handle the games you want to play at 60fps vsync with high aa. For people that are into graphically very advanced titles that means a big investment into a more than decent rig (or playing at low settings). As for the pixel density, your eyes are extremely close to the screen in a VR device and additionally the rift uses lenses to cover most of your field of view with that screen, so your eye is able to resolve the individual pixels of a 720p and even a 1080p screen (just like when you are sitting really close to a huge TV). To make the eye/brain only see the picture and not the pixels the pixel density and hence the display resolution needs to increase even further. If you are totally immersed into the game you won't notice it much even with the dev version of the rift, but to some people this can be a major disappointment as it is not really like looking at the world with your own eyes but like watching it through an insect/fly screen like I mentioned before. Btw, why do you sound so pissed? I only mentioned that it's not perfect yet and that you do need to invest into more than just the rift to have the best experience. |
I don't think anyone was expecting retina-level pixel density on a VR headset!? Neither are people really expecting to blast Battlefield 4 on full either.
The pc needs to render 2 screens, that's all.
"Btw, why do you sound so pissed? I only mentioned that it's not perfect yet and that you do need to invest into more than just the rift to have the best experience."
The first airplanes weren't exactly jet fighters.
