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Eye filters for Oculus rift !?
Hello everyone, I know that everyone is excited for the new oculus rift but I have been thinking !? why they didn't make any eye filters at the end you will be playing for up to 3 hrs ever though...
It won't be wireless because, with current tech, wireless data channels are nowhere near required bandwidth.
Agreed. Pushing wireless onto the Rift development is a terrible idea. It could absolutely annihilate the final product.
1. To get a 1080+ image over a wireless connection fast, you're gonna have to compress that shit. A lot. That means losing a ton of information and image quality. People rave about 4k on YouTube not knowing that image dimensions and bitrate are hugely separate factors. Rest assured those 4k videos have had 3 quarters of their data sucked out to make them streamable, which means more motion artifacts and a hell of a lot less detail.
2. Compressing is computing, and computing takes time, even when it's "live". Oculus wants to get photon-to-pixel latency down to 30ms because it's important that head and game movement are synchronized, but you'd completely negate this by smacking on a good half second worth of image compression and transmission time. Hell, half a second is being optimistic.