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I bought on to the Kickstarter with the express intention of doing just that.

I sold mine. In 5 years, maybe I'll try again. It needs 2-3 generations of improvement, at least, before it's suitable for development work. Currently, the resolution is so bad you can't even display legible text within the 3d world.

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Well, the point behind the currently-available revision is that it's a rough model for developers to build things that will look better on the higher-def release model.

By all accounts, the HD prototype that's floating around looks really, really swell.

I have no doubt it does, for games. But due to the nature of its optics, the perceived resolution of the Rift will still not be up to snuff for a while. You're essentially looking at the screen through a magnifying glass; I'm not sure there's any display with a good-enough pixel density out there, yet.

Thanks for saying this. I've tried the developer version and while it was great fun the resolution, screen door and shimmer issues were really disappointing.

I agree that it needs a couple of generations of improvement before it becomes useful for text. And if you check the specs of the "HD" version it's not going to be sufficiently improved to make the difference.

I tried the HD prototype at Unite 2013 and it looks really really good. Just look for the video of RogueCraft and you'll see text appear just fine.

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