just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?
anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated
I'd imagine it would look just like looking at a regular screen (albeit one that fills most of your FOV and has head tracking, etc.) Each eye sees the same image from a slightly different angle to simulate depth so a single eye would just see one angle.
If you have a dev kit, close one eye and you'll get a pretty good idea (basically it's the same thing without depth).
I wonder if you should measure from the center of nose to center of pupil and double it for IPD so looking straight stays natural? Or it might not matter.
"crazychainsaw" wrote: just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?
anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated
Just checked with Cyber, and it'd be like you and soylentcola said. It'll be a little deteriorated and disoriented for that person but still a fun experience.
"crazychainsaw" wrote: just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?
anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated
You could probably find out yourself by closing 1 eye. As the DK2 has position tracking this should help one eyed peoples depth perception from head movement.
I dont know if many apps allow you to save gpu speed by turning off one eye, it would also be theoretically possible to double the frame rate by re rograming the firmware of the display to use only one half of the screen,
"crazychainsaw" wrote: just curious on the subject considering iv seen a couple youtube comments asking the same and my grandfather also only has vision in one eye. I know it won't work for a immersed 3d effect obviously but is there any difference than just looking at a normal screen?
anyone with experience on this would be greatly appreciated
Obviously it is a huge difference from just looking at a screen. You are inside a virtual world looking around. With the DK2 you can move your head right up next to virtual objects like they were really there and examine them from every angle. It would be as 3D as the real world is to people with one eye. Positional tracking makes things seem 3D even without stereopsis.
I wonder (hear me out here) if for single eyed people, switching the view for one eye quickly enough between left and right eye would allow the brain to 'see' real 3d again? I wonder if it would adapt naturally to that or if it would just be a confusing mess..
A person with only 1 eye can't see stereoscopic depth. My dad's lost an eye when he was a kid and he's never been able to enjoy my View Master reels, stereo slides and 3D glasses. Period! But people with 1 eye accustom themselves to see depth by slightly moving their head. If you move your head sideways you'll see nearby objects shifting more than distant objects. Of course this doesn't work for 3D glasses since there's no head tracking but the rift can do this. So people with one eye will experience it much different than looking at a 2D monitor.
