Hey all,
I was wondering, what really determines the FOV when using HMD ? I understand it's the combination between the lenses and the screen, and the distance between them, but I'm looking for a technical explanation regarding how they combined to create the FOV to the end user.
Oculus did manage to get pretty high FOV but it's still not as wide as real life FOV,
Did they change to 5" in the dk2 to make it more comfortable, and found a better lenses to keep the current FOV?
Is it just a way to keep room for improvements in future HMD ?
What affects the FOV ?
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Re: What affects the FOV ?
Basically, this :bergo wrote:what really determines the FOV when using HMD ?
Yep there is quite some margin for that. The human FOV is around 270°x125°, the Rift is less than half that horizontally and a bit lower vertically.bergo wrote:Oculus did manage to get pretty high FOV but it's still not as wide as real life FOV
They changed to 5.7" panels, probably because they were the biggest OLED panels available in 1080p (from the Galaxy Note 3). Palmer said some years ago that around 6" was probably ideal.bergo wrote:Did they change to 5" in the dk2 to make it more comfortable
I think they used ~10X aspheric lenses to do that. Previous lenses were 7X. No idea if the new lenses are off-the-shelf or custom produced though.bergo wrote:and found a better lenses to keep the current FOV?
I think they go for the best possible solution at each iteration and that they're constantly discovering better things.bergo wrote:Is it just a way to keep room for improvements in future HMD ?
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