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thismeintiel on 30 December 2016
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bonzobanana said:
thismeintiel said:

That screenshot doesn't tell the whole story, though, as most people would be looking at it on a 900p-1080p, and some above, screen on their PCs/laptops.  720p in an actual phone VR headset is freaking awful.  Being that close to the screen even on a 1080p is a little distracting seeing the pixels that make up the screen.  It's tolerable, but at 720p, it'll be god awful.  I imagine people won't be able to do it for more than a few minutes.

I don't agree with you overall but there may be some people where resolution is too low for them by personal choice. That image certainly doesn't tell the full story as it actual lacks the vivid colours of a real screen and shows some jpeg compression artifacts. Also a tablet screen and HMD purposely designed to work together with no compatibility with other devices may be able to optimise the screen a bit more. The  middle and side borders are a bit large on the image above they might be reduced and there may be some other inovations to improve it.

I don't think you get what I'm saying.  If that image you posted was actually what you saw on screen, people wouldn't care.  My point is with such a low res screen and being so close to the screen, the image is going to look more like this...