With the Rift, they have one screen, and massive distortion from whatever lenses he happend to buy from the surplus store (which again is genius) And now they are developing Based on that. so the software Pre-Warps the picture, wasting valuable processing , inducing interpolations, and slowing the whole thing down.

If they instead had used modern methods , from modern VR displays (not 1980s) , they would have 2 clean undistorted pictures. Plus the capability to focus different for each eye, plus cover for the problems of eye seperation (distance between eyes) between different people.

You mean like that new Sony system?

engadget.com/2012/09/21/…

@MichaelFrank Well just like the sony and many others, they are often missing at leas these things

1) focus for seperate eyes, every set of halfway decent binoculars has to have it.

oh the sony only does 720. Lame.

2) slider for eye seperations distance. A physical movement of the lensing and back screen. Doing it in software will limit view again, and ends up adding processing.

The Sony have have the ability to focus for each eye.

I've used it.

3) full HD resolutions, on BOTH eyes. Feed both eyes a full res display. And the display is not going to be 100% eye coverage , if were also not going to be seeing pixels. Some of the displays try to shove thier crappy resolution to close to the person (virtually).

The "development" of the rift, is getting people really interested (again genius) , but they are dependant on archaic methods, that cannot be extrapolated to a "premium" system.

-- i dont see it any different then if I tossed together something here in my garage (as i have done before) and asked people to Bend everything to the cheezy way i made it. Especially when say given 6million dollers i wouldnt have made a cheezy pile of junk with an iphone stuck to the front of it :-)

-- What could still be an opertunity to create a real usable VR head device with multiple uses, even beyond the desktop and tons of wires, is now a developmental problem for a system that will make people blind, give them headaches, and take another Wack at destroying the idea that a good VR will ever be created.

@jokerdino fooled me, he's not @Sathya.

-- the china piece of mp4 viewers sold on e-bay, not even worth sticking your eye up to. The sonys cheap versions of the units, the VR thing i pointed to above, and the rift, all continuing to perpetuate the myth that: 1) it wont work with many peoples visions (focus for the eyes) 2) they are going to have huge pixels from the low res 3) it still gives me a headache, even though Viewers (vrses flipping frames and using polarised glasses) could feed the human eye 2 full pictures ,

and full frame rate

@Psycogeek What is the framerate human eyes perceive world in?

@Boris_yo about 120fps if you ask me. at least 18fps to make believe it is animated. A good balance would be a steady 60.

@slhck it's not????

@Boris_yo 100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

@slhck But Outlook is.

@DanielBeck I've seen that used as well, yeah

@slhck I did that for a while at a client before migrating to Keepass. Colleagues still do it. At least with an encrypted email addressed to nobody, it should be somewhat secure.

@DanielBeck A PITA to organize though I suppose.

I just found out I had been using KeePass 1.x on OS X since there was no 2.0 version, so I'm using .kdb files from that. Now there's a 2.0 alpha and it only reads v2.0 .kdbx files, not .kdb — what the fuck?

@slhck Outlook supports text search. I know how to handle plain text. Now I get lost in the insane folder hierarchy I set up in Keepass :-/

KeePass has search as well?

But I get what you mean…

@slhck I'm sure there's an SU question in there somewhere.

I could theoretically migrate my file and start using 2.0 exclusively, but I don't want to run unstable software on a database file that has all my passwords.

Is that a Meta mod telling a dev how the system works?

Okay, engineer for Careers, but still, amusing.

Since Feb 20 (that's 6 months) I've created 173 support requests with a small(ish) software startup. I'm pretty sure the support engineers hate me :-/

@DanielBeck You seem to be in a love-hate relationship with that software.

@slhck The software is free and open source, and they advertise their commercial support with the number of open tickets in the public bug tracker. What do they expect?

People buying support and not filing tickets? Pleeease

Oh. Jenkins.

I'll need to use this eventually.

Anyway, off top bed. Night all.

@slhck Night