Hacker News Reader

Comment by chaostheory | Hacker News Reader

It’s not mixed to me. VR and mixed reality failed for work. Text is too hard to read and the headsets are too heavy for all day use. Still, VR is great for gaming though

View on HN

Completely agree. I love games like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx. But it doesn't work for fine text and it's very very hard to make VR presence feel like anything other than a game.

It needs to be at least 4K per eye to work well for text, IMO. Then I could see it being actually useful in a sense that you can get as many large virtual displays as you want around you for different tasks.

But that still has nothing to do with the "verse" part of the metaverse. Why would I want that, either for productivity or for entertainment?

It’s also the PPD. I believe you need something like 35, and only the consumer Varjo model even comes close. The Quest Pro is around 19 or 21. Other VR headsets are in a similar range.

Instead of pushing work, meta should be emphasizing fitness. Their headsets are no ready for work. It’s been two years now and I have yet to see infinite office. The nreal is closer to being ok for work than the quest pro

It's Brad on YouTube had a discussion with another VR tech nerd, and their conclusion was that 60ppd was retina clarity and 40ppd was the minimal to get work done. Ymmv.

I think the corporate varjo is the only one that fits the bill right now, but it's so big, I'm hoping 2025-2027 we'll have the mini OLED to have the quality and form factor needed to replace monitors

Ouch, then the $1999 Varjo (which doesn’t include controllers or base stations) only goes up to 35 PPD. Thank you for jogging my memory

Reply on news.ycombinator.com