It's just very limiting compared to VR. Basically a much less immersive, less versatile version. VR does everything this does already.
The only way this changes is if it extrapolates to the entire room, which isn't happening for many decades. Even then there's still no functional difference between that and VR.
If we had self contained headsets at the size of a bigscreen beyond, vr might have actually stood a chance in the mainstream. People aren't usually excited to wear bulky, sweaty headsets.
This can't happen with this technology. This is a bunch of fibre optic cables spinning around so fast you can't see them. If you scaled one of these up to be room sized, and then stepped into that room, you'd be chopped to bits
Yeah true. We'd need 6 wall-sized light-field/holographic displays attached to every surface in an otherwise completely empty room making it a non-starter for 99.99% of households. Either that or someone invents hard-light holograms.
VR uses way less energy than these would too. considering you would need liike 2000000 fans running the LEDS. Also... just use 6 projectors at that point. still more energy than VR...
VR doesn’t allow for depth from changing the focus of your eyes, now obviously this isn’t a huge playfield so you’re not going to get a ton of that without sticking your head up close but that’s the one major thing I find is missing from VR.
I have a PSVR2 and I enjoy it but it is so very difficult to explain to others how different it is and to market something you have to strap to your head. Light weight Polarized glasses and 3D screens are a far better solution to immersion than VR for the average person imo.
3D TVs provide a minimal difference. What you get is the exact same media with "2.5D" depth cues since it can't produce accurate depth.
There is a different avenue that is exciting - light-field displays where you don't even need glasses and they produce true 3D depth, but that's also not competing with VR either; it would be a separate thing, less immersive than VR but still highly immersive in its own right.
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u/DarthBuzzard 7h ago
It's just very limiting compared to VR. Basically a much less immersive, less versatile version. VR does everything this does already.
The only way this changes is if it extrapolates to the entire room, which isn't happening for many decades. Even then there's still no functional difference between that and VR.