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setsunatenshi on 02 February 2017
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spemanig said:
setsunatenshi said:

Ok, you've clearly never used VR.

A 720p screen may be ok for everyday use, where the screen is at an arms distance from your face.

But when the screen is strapped to your face, the individual pixels are not only seen but make it so that you can't even read text on it.

Using the PSVR, if you attempt to read anything except pretty decently sized fonts it's damn near impossible (and we're talking about a 960 x 1080 per eye at 90 Hz. 5 minutes on a VR screen of 720p quality would literally make your eyes bleed.

One of the reasons why VR is so demanding physically is because your brain has to constantly compensate for some poor image quality that comes with it. It needs to constantly try to ignore the individual pixels and build a smooth image for you.

All of this is assuming the machine would even be powerful enough to run any game in VR, which it isn't.

Oh and before you say "but phones..." again, every phone that has some form of VR has a much better and higher resolution screen than the switch does and their main purpose is for VR video, not gaming. And even at that they are pretty poor (I know, I have and S7 edge with Gear VR)

Except that isn't true, at all. Plenty of phones far weaker than the Switch has been used for VR gaming with a 720p LED screen, and there's never a major issue. It just looks worse, which I never objected to. As for fonts, Nintendo will just use big fonts then. Problem solved. No eye bleeding. And again, of course the Switch is powerful enough.

Have you actually every tried it yourself? Ever?

Use VR on a 720 screen and tell me it's an enjoyable experience. I dare you