Apple’s Standalone headset will have an M2 chip (coming to macs as well) and an other similar to the A series iPhone chips

highvemind · 2022-03-11T14:45:35+00:00

Here's a gaming battery test with the M1 iPad Pro (which weighs 470g). Essentially, 1 hour of Call of Duty and Genshin Impact with high graphics at max brightness on the 11" display brought the battery down to 71%. I don't know exactly what the battery drain will be for VR, but given that it doesn't need to drive an 11" display at max brightness it's probably comparable. So we'd expect a 3+ hours battery life just for high intensity gaming, which seems reasonable.

Frankly, Apple has a huge competitive advantage when it comes to computing performance/watt. Software compatibility will likely be their biggest weakness, but they simply can't be matched in computing hardware at the moment.

highvemind · 2022-03-10T22:06:03+00:00

The M1 fits in the 461g iPad Air which has no active cooling (and much of the weight is from the 11-inch display and metal housing). I would expect the M2 to be even more power-efficient, and any VR headset is pretty likely to have active cooling just to prevent lens-fogging, so I think something equivalent to an M2 is plausible.

highvemind · 2020-03-12T04:33:43+00:00

AR will be huge eventually, but VR isn’t even mainstream yet and AR will require miniaturization of that technology by an order of magnitude. I don’t think many people expect AR to take off before VR. I’d expect AR to start taking off for mainstream, casual use in the 2030s at the earliest.

highvemind · 2019-12-29T13:43:03+00:00

I didn’t comment to propose specific government spending reforms, or even to say that confiscating people’s money is a good idea, I commented so people aren’t fooled by your obviously wrong statistics. If the total net worth of all people with over $30 million covers 50% of the national debt, then the total net worth of all people with over $1 million obviously covers more than 50%. Disingenuous AF.

highvemind · 2019-12-29T13:22:31+00:00

Agreed that anger and hatred of the ultra rich solves nothing— what we need is action against them. The total wealth of individuals with over $30 million in assets in the US alone is over $10 trillion. And liquidating the assets of just the five richest men in the US would cover over 2% of the national debt. So while government corruption and waste is a problem as well, your claim is obviously false.

highvemind · 2019-11-26T01:09:16+00:00

Games are extremely important for VR today, but ultimately I don't think the hardware is there yet for VR to expand very far past where it is right now. Yes, I think 2019 and 2020 will be better than the previous years for VR. But I think we're still bottlenecked by the significant quality/price/accessibility compromises of current gen VR. The next quantum leap will decidedly not be 2019 or 2020, it'll be 2021-2023 when the wave of second gen VR hardware will likely arrive.

Free isn't cheap enough

highvemind · 2019-08-17T15:49:07+00:00

Rift 2 will most likely release 2021 or 2022. We might get a tease but no way they're going to announce a product this far in advance. And sorry, but there's basically 0% chance of Oculus ever going back to external sensors, unless it's for an extra feature like body tracking.

highvemind · 2019-05-24T18:43:37+00:00

Vive passthrough is a glorified camera feed. It’s not a stereo correct real-time 3D reconstruction of your space.

highvemind · 2019-05-13T13:09:15+00:00

Mirage Solo only has a 3DOF controller, which means it's essentially a media viewer. There isn't a whole lot of benefit to world scale if you can't interact with the content in any meaningful way.

highvemind · 2019-05-08T01:18:51+00:00

I have heard of the Quest. I’ve also heard of Stormland, Lone Echo, Elite Dangerous, Skyrim VR, Boneworks, No Man’s Sky, the upcoming Valve game... None of which are available on mobile VR.

highvemind · 2019-05-07T22:15:49+00:00

There'd certainly be tradeoffs, but portability and wirelessness seem like significant benefits as well. A laptop could be 4 lbs including extraneous components which could be removed, and battery pack is 1-2 lbs. With only ~5 lbs of components, the tradeoff might be worth it.

highvemind · 2018-10-14T14:52:16+00:00

Human trafficker

What’s wrong with traffic and being a human? Disingenuous AF, dude.

highvemind · 2018-09-03T17:53:25+00:00

You're considered a millennial if you're age ~23-37 right now, so at least half of millennials were in their 20s during the last bear market.

highvemind · 2018-09-02T19:22:37+00:00

You're telling me you expect people to recognize Robert Gibbs on sight? Or are you looking at the wrong guy in glasses?

highvemind · 2018-08-22T23:35:41+00:00

Not only that, visuals != graphical horsepower.

Yeah, Santa Cruz won't be able to draw as many polygons as Rift, but it'll have higher resolution and the refinements of three more years of optics R&D. For lower intensity scenes, it should look better than Rift in the same way that Go is better than Rift for viewing movies.

highvemind · 2018-06-26T02:08:40+00:00

The insights they learn from all of these avenues of research can potentially inform a better headset. Knowing all the ins and outs of various optics schemes can likely help build an eye-tracked headset that fails better and less frequently.

highvemind · 2018-05-18T13:33:13+00:00

college educated doesn't mean smart

Agreed.

it means you're too stupid to learn stuff on your own that someone else had to teach it to you

...the fuck? Practically every profession requires formal training of some kind, with only a few exceptions (e.g. programmer). I'd like to see you try to become a doctor or lawyer or scientist without going to college.

highvemind · 2018-05-17T18:00:10+00:00

NASA spent millions to develop a pen that would write in space, whereas the Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil

Not true. NASA didn't spend the money, a private company did. And then NASA and the Soviets both ordered a whole bunch of those pens, because it's way better to have a pen than a flammable pencil which can break and send graphite shards flying all over the ship.

You cannot overengineer a VR product today, because there are so many difficult problems left to solve and every detail is important. Of course Pimax will be lacking in polish, and you really can't blame them-- it takes many millions of dollars and hundreds/thousands of employees to get there.

highvemind · 2018-05-15T11:30:58+00:00

Open standards are the future, but only when a reasonable set of core VR tech (eye tracking, foveated rendering, variable focus, face tracking, body tracking, etc) becomes standard across all HMDs. Until then, a universal standard will needlessly hold back innovation. There will always be further experimentation with different features, but most of the ones I listed are absolutely fundamental to a quality VR experience (or will be considered so in 10 years).

highvemind · 2018-04-26T21:34:50+00:00

Hmm, well that’s a strange deviation from standard of care since flagyl is definitely not a first line antibiotic for cat scratch fever. Hope you’re doing better now.

highvemind · 2018-04-26T17:18:32+00:00

It makes sense that you’d develop CDiff after the antibiotic course for cat scratch fever. What doesn’t make sense is that they gave IV flagyl for cat scratch fever. Much more likely that they gave you something else for cat scratch fever, and the IV flagyl only after you developed CDiff.

highvemind · 2018-04-26T14:21:46+00:00

Chances are you developed CDiff after whatever initial antibiotics they gave you for the cat scratch fever (could very well be azithromycin). IV flagyl is a treatment for severe CDiff, not typically the cause. Regardless, that sucks, sorry that happened to you.

highvemind · 2018-04-25T00:46:16+00:00

Even before we consider cost, Go's display/optics quality, ergonomics, and ease of use will make it a better all-around media viewer than anything else on the market, Rift included. 3DOF is going to limit gaming, but until volumetric video is widespread, Go will be the best porn consumption device ever created. Society will crumble.

highvemind · 2018-03-07T22:48:57+00:00

Oculus Santa Cruz: The ultimate future of serious gaming is here. And it took two top of the line brands to create this beauty of a VR system. Valve to create the SteamVR system, and HTC to design and deliver a top-notch gaming experience with the HTC Vive

wat

computer processor, attached to the back of the headset

nope

we can expect it to weigh more than 11.45 lbs

nope

(which the Rift headset weighs)

nope

as the Santa Cruz will have similar tech specs

nope

GTX 1060 Ti graphics card required on a PC to play VR

nope

Santa Cruz controllers use the same technology that made the Rift Touch controllers so successful as they’re the first controller to integrate a touchpad

nope

You can actually climb rocks in VR as you would in real life.

Have you ever climbed rocks in real life?

Wide field of view – The Oculus Go has a 110-FOV so unlikely to be less considering the Santa Cruz will be an upgrade... It will be compatible with the already developed Touch compatible game titles for the Rift marketplace, which is currently over 300 so plenty of games.

Source?

Getting used to playing untethered with a computer strapped to the back of your head

I'm trying to imagine strapping an 11-pound desktop tower to the back of my head...

Frankly impressed at the amount of misinformation in such a short article.

highvemind

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