I'm a visual artist from France working with interactive installations and video. I recently have been contacted by a local company,
which wants to build some art installations for their stores.
I was always curious about VR and this time decided to give it a try (especially since it's them who pay for everything
I want to make some sort of masks, that people put over the faces and instead of holes, there are VR goggles inside, so you see
a virtual world, which responds to your head movement. (rotation, pitch, yawn).
I do need to get crisp image of product and they do some leather and wood objects, so I need to show texture and everything.
So it's more about quality of image, than 180 degrees immersion.
So I spent lots of time looking for "affordable" HDMs. Things like Oculus and low-end gear, I put aside due to their pixelation issue
(screen-door effect). I contacted pretty much all companies that I found on the net.. the prices for SXGA binocular system are
around 12000 (sensics, cinoptics etc). 60 degrees POV.. which is nice, but somewhat expensive. I can probably get two max...
Trivisio is building 45 degrees SXGA and they sell for around 3000 dollars. That's pretty interesting, but they are only 45 degres.
They use OLED micro-displays from MicroOled company, which claim to have virtually no visible grid between pixels.
Their sets are also quite compact, made in germany and looks like this company is pretty serious.
Finally I found this forum and looks like there are people with good experience here.
Could you share your expertise ?
Am I looking in the right direction ?
Is there any other options I should consider ?
Do I understand correctly the notion of image quality, angle and such ?
Thank you much,
M.
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