remosito wrote:
That is a BIG if in my opinion.
When was the announcement of the first 1080 5.x" prototype. To me seems forever!
And those 1080p panels are just now becoming available widely.
Well, i did use "if" for a reason
I don't claim to have any insider knowledge of any LCD manufacturing facility. I didn't know about the Toshiba one, i only new about this one:
http://vr-zone.com/articles/2014-flagsh ... 38454.html
But like you stated earlier, these displays have been shown all the way back since 2011... So maybe 2014 is the year we see these screens finally hit the market. And it's my guess there has got to be a reason why Palmer keeps saying "1080p will be the
minimum resolution the consumer version will have"
Maybe he knows something we don't.
If they do go with a 1080p panel, i hope it's not an IPS LCD, but an OLED instead. (but i think that's even more unlikely than a higher resolution LCD panel)
But maybe there is hope... that 1080p announcement you linked dates May 27th 2012. And one year later there is plenty of 1080p phones in the market.
The CV could be more than a year away and still make it's 2014 projected deadline, so anything can happen!
mr.uu wrote:
First misunderstanding: I was talking about a rift pro with two screens, to double pixels and/or enhance FOV. I never talked about a two screen variation ipad
Oh, i thought you meant 2 different rifts with two different screens, and having understood that, i thought the idea was silly; Because if there is a higher resolution screen that you can get at the same price, it would make no sense to use the lower resolution one, even if there were small savings to be had somehow.
BTW, I don't think a two screen rift is going to happen. It would be an easy way to make a more expensive rift for enthusiasts. But it's probably not worth the engineering challenges it would bring.