I'm back to super pessimistic on this tech... I too want simula to ship but I keep also maxing out my laptop on ram and compute and cooling and battery...
I'm rooting for them but I can't help in a financially signifigant method
I don't know your computer specs ofc. Mine are pretty beefy (11th gen i9, a 4lb p1 gen 4). But it runs smoothly even when I switch to battery saver and turn off my gpu (with 1 4k screen as a result).
>the bandwidth is a killer
It sounds like a problem with your network.
>the compute required to re-encode the video is a killer
Your graphics card should be encoding the video.
The gpu on my laptop was also on fire and the machine was sluggish due to gpu issues, thermal issues, network issues.
It was also a less pleasant and less quality experience than real physical monitors. I also tried it with my index on the beast desktop I have that has those physical monitors turning the monitors off and putting in dummy plugs (same as laptop).
It sucked, my neck hurt, it was laggy, hard to position monitors which I had to do every time I set it up, and the resolution sucked compared to a physical monitor, and don't get me started on fots let alon comparing it to 43" 4k monitor.
I spent a decent amount of time in discord with immersed trying to get it to work. It's just not meant to be currently. And for the same price as a occulus, same weight, smaller footprint (the occulus is huge in a backpack, a tablet monitor is just and extra half inch of laptop), I get a much better experience. Also my neck doesn't hurt, I can see the world, and it's much higher res.
The original links, if you look, are about their new hardware, which is ultra-lightweight, and higher res, 4k per eye
I'm not trying to travel with external monitors, hence why I'm looking for a virtual solution, and this looks quite promising
I don't have anything against immersed. I chatted with them several times and gave feedback every time. They're nice folks. I'm not sure they're gonna ship. And after that experience I'm also pessimistic on vr for desktop for several years at minimum.
And travel monitors are just gonna get better. My m2pro is already light, the externals I can see getting half the weight, 4k and possibly wireless. That'd be more compute in a smaller space and lighter weight than that Dell desktop replacement I plugged around in 2003, and smaller but heavier than the simula. I haven't had a chance to try foveated text on 8k but my math says it's lower density than 4k at arms length on a 17 or 27 monitor so but let's call that a win.
So equivalent experience.
we know software and hardware are not static, so your anecdotal evidence is only admissible if associated with time