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SvennoJ on 13 June 2015

It would be like playing on an old SD tv.

VR is great for immersion, not for watching tv (or narrow fov console games). The resolution isn't good enough, unless you want to go back to VHS quality. Morpheus has a 100 degree field of view at 960x1080 per eye. Realistically you don't want to go over 40 degrees fov for watching tv (especially not with shaky cam), so you're roughly left with 380x430 for your content.

It's possible, yet a big step back from 1920x1080.



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Chark on 13 June 2015

I believe this has always been a given. Sony made a personal 3d viewer which was essentially a tv visor that had an HDMI in. Morpheous is just an evolution of that device.



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Normchacho on 13 June 2015
SvennoJ said:
It would be like playing on an old SD tv.

VR is great for immersion, not for watching tv (or narrow fov console games). The resolution isn't good enough, unless you want to go back to VHS quality. Morpheus has a 100 degree field of view at 960x1080 per eye. Realistically you don't want to go over 40 degrees fov for watching tv (especially not with shaky cam), so you're roughly left with 380x430 for your content.

It's possible, yet a big step back from 1920x1080.


That's true, I mean...technically you'd still be seeing a 768x432 image (assuming a 40 degree fov) which really isn't that much different than the resolution of a regular dvd (720x480).



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SvennoJ on 13 June 2015
Normchacho said:
SvennoJ said:
It would be like playing on an old SD tv.

VR is great for immersion, not for watching tv (or narrow fov console games). The resolution isn't good enough, unless you want to go back to VHS quality. Morpheus has a 100 degree field of view at 960x1080 per eye. Realistically you don't want to go over 40 degrees fov for watching tv (especially not with shaky cam), so you're roughly left with 380x430 for your content.

It's possible, yet a big step back from 1920x1080.


That's true, I mean...technically you'd still be seeing a 768x432 image (assuming a 40 degree fov) which really isn't that much different than the resolution of a regular dvd (720x480).

I'm not sure if it would work that way but it would be an interesting experiment. Sent the even pixels to the left eye and the odd pixels to the right eye and your brain might interpret it as a 768x432 image. It's still far below the HMZ-T1 that has 2 separate 1280x720 panels.
Yeah I guess if you watch 480p Netflix it would still look good enough. Games would be a problem though with all the tiny text.




LipeJJ on 13 June 2015
Normchacho said:
LipeJJ said:

I've seen some, but, nope, never noticed. And yes, I thought it would be wireless. This is pretty sad to me.


Oh...sorry to ruin that for you then...


Well, somebody had to. Don't be sorry, I owe you one. Guess I'll wait till the technology evolves more before I jump in this train.



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