Killa|3yte
2[H]4U
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- Dec 22, 2002
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Just curious if anyone on the forums has one?
I'm kinda bummed to report that my first 3-4 hours with the unit have not just been a letdown, it's been a very uncomfortable experience.
The motion tracking works well, and it's pretty uncanny to strap it on for the first time and look around. After that though, things went downhill pretty quickly.
The resolution is completely unusable. Not only is it half of 720p (one half for each eye), but the distortion shader makes it so that only a portion of those few pixels are being used for the image. The consumer version will likely be 1080p, so twice as many pixels will help, but after trying it, I think either 2x screens or at least 1x1440p screen will be needed.
My wife and I both had similar experiences with the motion sickness (using this term broadly). While you're wearing it, the experience may be mildly uncomfortable, but once you take the unit off, that's when the nausea and migraine hit. I haven't been wearing them for about an hour and I'm still feeling extremely unwell from trying to play Half-Life 2 for 30 minutes. This was surprising to me as I've been using nVidia 3D Vision with high depth settings for a long time now. I think the discomfort stems from the motion, not the 3D effect.
Anyway, I'm still wanting to believe in this technology, but I'm feeling a little more pessimistic as to whether or not their latest iteration will turn it into a usable product, at least for me.
I'm kinda bummed to report that my first 3-4 hours with the unit have not just been a letdown, it's been a very uncomfortable experience.
The motion tracking works well, and it's pretty uncanny to strap it on for the first time and look around. After that though, things went downhill pretty quickly.
The resolution is completely unusable. Not only is it half of 720p (one half for each eye), but the distortion shader makes it so that only a portion of those few pixels are being used for the image. The consumer version will likely be 1080p, so twice as many pixels will help, but after trying it, I think either 2x screens or at least 1x1440p screen will be needed.
My wife and I both had similar experiences with the motion sickness (using this term broadly). While you're wearing it, the experience may be mildly uncomfortable, but once you take the unit off, that's when the nausea and migraine hit. I haven't been wearing them for about an hour and I'm still feeling extremely unwell from trying to play Half-Life 2 for 30 minutes. This was surprising to me as I've been using nVidia 3D Vision with high depth settings for a long time now. I think the discomfort stems from the motion, not the 3D effect.
Anyway, I'm still wanting to believe in this technology, but I'm feeling a little more pessimistic as to whether or not their latest iteration will turn it into a usable product, at least for me.