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How does the image appear far away inside the Rift
Of all the amazing things this device does and of all the technical details behind it and how they work that I know one thing I've never actually been able to wrap my head around is how the reality in...
"owenwp" wrote:
The lenses simply increase the focal distance, like a pair of reading glasses only stronger.
Ah ok, but how does it then allow me to 'look' at things close as well, my eyes go slightly crossed to focus on a cube that's only .5 meters away as they would in real life, but that doesn't cause everything to go out of focus
"owenwp" wrote:
Sensitivity to flicker at over 72hz is pretty rare, and very few devices produce flicker in that range so you may have never seen light in that frequency range before, or you have seen it and not known that it was flickering at all.
Ah ok, I get headaches from monitor backlights that use PWM flicker and that frequency is usually around the 240hz mark, yet I don't get a headache from using the Rift.
"owenwp" wrote:
The other important factor for scale is accurate FOV, and cardboard doesn't seem to get that quite right.
Yeh it feels like looking through one of those old stereo 3d photo viewer things from the 50's