adding mechanical focus seems...odd instead of trying to solve that programmatically, just another thing to break, feels a little archaic....and honestly that's not something I even cared about in the first place. Also, I really hope they change the strap configuration to something more like the psvr. FOV is awesome and my absolute #1 must have for the next hmd I buy (but then again the pimax/starvr are higher) resolution increase is a bonus, but I didn't care about screen door effect at all...if it gets rid of god rays I'm sold
Today, I'd probably buy a headset if it had the same ppi as the original rift, no god rays, better ergonomics, better performance and enough fov that I didn't feel like I was wearing goggles.
The half dome might be these things, but it might also be emphasizing the wrong things (for me)
Well, adjusting focus is not something you can do in software. If they were just making something out-of-focus, they could fake that by artificially blurring it, but they're actually changing the focal distance, i.e. forcing you to focus your eyes at a different distance to see the virtual object. Focal distance is fundamentally a physical property of the lens and the distance to the screen, so the only way to modify it is to either move the screen or distort the lens.
when i focus on a object close up irl the background actually doubles as well as blures. I wonder if they will also simulate this effect.
With a varifocus display that would happen naturally. The doubling is due to eye vergence, which is the primary means of stereo vision in current headsets. Varifocus can also change your eye's accommodation (focus). If you look at a close object and the headset knows it (display focus changes to match) then distant things would be doubled (wrong vergence) and blurred (wrong accommodation).
