Hi Geek, here's the problem.
I spent a near lifetime looking down roads that are not considered 'normal' engineering. I did things that way as when I was a kid, early teens, I saw millions of people walking down the road toward the same destination, all working with the same box of tools.
Somehow, from that, new better answers where supposed to emerge. Noting that millions went to the same mount and prayed at the same temple, with nothing new emerging - I went the path less traveled. Which is to walk off the path, into the darkness, places where conventionality and norms do not travel. A sacrifice move, over that of the comfort of being and working with others.
It's that old saw about the drunk looking for his keys under the lampost, even though he lost his keys elsewhere. The more impossible the problem to solve, the more basic the mistake in the formation of the question.
What I'm saying is that I expended my series of questions to outside the normal engineering parameters. For example, if a PC is slow, just crank the clock! Not so fast...not that simple. How about, what is the complex electrostatic, electromagnetic, and mechanical aspects of the clock? What is it's fundamental atomic function and how does this address, or work with respect to the whole? Can one design a better piezoelectric atomic lattice? Or is it even necessary to remain in that realm of design? Then, cascade up from there, into the implementation and use of the clock. And then the rest of the PC's materials and design functions, at the basic level.
When I look at the HMD, I'm looking at it with respect to it's basic physics. But I don't look at it in conventional terms, or conventional expression. That you don't need to be Richard Feynman to understand or manipulate atomic structure or manipulate the fundamentals of complex atomic integration (alloys and so on).
The point is that all of these things have been executed or used in the making of the HMD, the alloy, the plastic, and so on (whatever the item may be) but is it the ultimate expression of the device?
I'm self taught, for the most part, as there is no school if one want to take the unconventional path. Sure, I've taken the courses. about 5 years worth, but I could not be bothered to go for the degree, the paper to hang on the wall. It wasn't important to me.
My biz partner has about 12 years of being a university junkie, across multiple disciplines. My patent lawyer spent about 15+ years in German technical schools, and ended up teaching at Germany's most prestigious polytechnic institute. Some of the things that come out of my mouth, freak him out.
What I'm saying, is that I can keep up with this, and more, but I don't spit it out in 'conventional' terms.
One day, when working with the considerations of light and it's integration with atomic structure, I decided to make a phone call, to try and clear up a small bit I was having a it of trouble with. I had to know if I was right in my suppositions, or wrong. I needed another opinion, one that was well informed.
I called this place, and they put the owner and driving force of the company on the phone. He just happened to be in on that day.
http://dsclabs.com/about_dsc.htm
I told him I had a problem. In order to shorten things up, I explained what I knew of the situation, what the textbooks said, and where the textbooks ended...and then moved into being wrong. Then I explained the lore that the top of the group had figured out... that the conventional physics had not labeled, described, or noted even existed. Then I explained the workarounds that the top in the trade used to get past this. Then I explained my problem. He agreed with me on all parts of my story and explained how he managed to get past this particular problem. How he understood it. That our understandings were complimentary. Even though both rested outside of convention. It is the lore and the edge of things, the things off the beaten path... that drives into the emergent norm of conventionality. He used that understanding to make the world's finest color references, I used it in the video screen market. Both our understandings are valuable as marketing concerns, so they are not disseminated. If dissemination is attempted, both of us might end up with our heads on the chopping block for daring to challenge conventionality. No mystery at all, it is just that people get scared when their basis is challenged. They lose logic and get emotional. Others would use it to trash his own company, or my efforts with video screens, so it is ill advised to do so.
When you want to get to something that is outside of the box, then you have to be prepared to tip the box over, and get out of it. Conventionality can take a hike, it serves no purpose in that scenario. Even though all those still in the box will treat it as a life raft and slam you for trying to get out if it. It's almost a no win situation, but I keep trying, as do others.
I tested this on the AVS forum, for a period of a year plus. I even said it out loud. I said that I'm being treated like crap right now, and I'll give some stuff away and suddenly I'll be the hero. for a while. I gave away about 9-10 things that could be patented, and two or three even became commercial endeavors, or gobbled up by companies that existed at the time. I fed my own competition and they used it against me. But I was the man on the forum!
Then, I clammed up again, and over a period of a few months.. I was back to being accused as being the egotistical a-hole. But I was not. I was simply saying, hey, look outside of convention. Find a different path. Not that the directions that one might be pursuing won't work as a form of improvement, but that there are other ways. Other potentials for improvement.
In ways that are important for the human eye, not just a simple case of a brute force and ignorance hammer of 'speeding up the PC'.
The issue is that they can be unconventional solutions to problems, problems that people do not acknowledge the existence of. I try to eek out a living in this area. Which is difficult ..as it is off the beaten path. For me, it is a case of derision and constant beatings.
It's like this: "When you're one step ahead of the crowd, you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot." When people can't make the leap, they hammer you.
If I have anything in that area that I can share, it has to put food on the table. I'm not willing to give it to a major corporation, I'd like the guys at Oculus to have it... or to have them slap me on the forehead for seeming like a crackpot.
In essence, I'll go as far as saying that the basic engineering analysis of the gear is fine, but there are other paths to making it a better device.