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This may be the best way to play 2D* games** (lemmy.world)

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**assuming streaming. Satisfactory, my current obsession, runs okay in the Frame but it’s definitely pushing it.

I’ve never had any kind of VR so this is all new to me, but having my game window in a comfortable place with other windows or desktops floating around me is the peak futuristic experience to me.

To reference one of my favorite books, Snow Crash, this is a place I could imagine meeting the Librarian and playing with a model of earth.

I could genuinely imagine working in this thing with the right peripherals.

Edit: flat, not 2D.

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[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interestingly enough, the focal length of the lenses and perceived distance due to stereoscopic parallax are completely unrelated.

The lenses can't reshape themselves, so the screens have to always sit at a constant perceived distance from your eyes, typically set around the middle of where the eyes are used to focusing, about 2 meters away. This isn't a problem, because the effect of the brain taking depth cues from parallax is much stronger, so the focal length detail just fades into the background.

What this all means though is that whether or not you need glasses in a VR headset is entirely dependent on whether you need glasses to see objects 2 meters away outside VR. This remains true even when objects in VR are much closer or farther as perceived by stereoscopic vision.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks!

I didn't think the perceived distance mattered - as you say, things rendered as "close" were not easier to see without glasses when I explored this phenomenon.

However, I didn't realize that it was all due to the focal length of the lenses. I know very little about lenses and vision.

So the lenses essentially make it so that the headset screens feel ~2 meters away, as far as your ability to see things near/far?

Thanks!

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

Yep, you got it.