WATCHING FILMS IN VR: DRAYMOND GREEN & IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING
Thomas Riedel and Thomas Bedenk checked out Meta Quest’s new docuseries Open Season featuring NBA bad boy Draymond Green, and they’re definitely digging the 180-degree stereoscopic setup shot on Blackmagic Ursa cams. You genuinely feel like you’re riding shotgun in his Porsche, but whether this kind of expensive, subsidized storytelling will ever turn a real profit remains a big question mark.
FOV DRAMA: THE NEW META VR GLASSES
VR enthusiasts are already whining about the rumored 70-degree field of view and Meta’s 54-degree dev safe zone, but the hosts aren’t sweating it. Sure, following a fast-moving ball in sports might suck with a narrower view, but paired with crisp OLEDs, it’s more than enough screen real estate to chill on the couch and binge movies.
HARDWARE LEAKS: SAMSUNG’S INCOMING SMART GLASSES Spotted
FCC filings hint that Samsung is finally getting ready to drop its own displayless AI glasses, teaming up with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for a bunch of frame styles. As an Android fanboy, Thomas is hyped to get proper ecosystem integration and give Meta some much-needed competition in the wearable game.
LASERS TO THE EYE: TDK’S DIRECT RETINAL PROJECTION
TDK showed off a new setup that bounces lasers straight onto your retina via meta-optic mirrors, neatly killing the annoying vergence-accommodation conflict. It could pave the way for super slim, normal-looking frames, but with monochrome green visuals and the nightmare of needing pinpoint eye tracking, it’s not taking over the world just yet.
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- Open Season On Draymond Green Shows How Well VR Docuseries Can Work
- Meta puts the VR Glasses at 2412 x 2288 per eye, and 58 degrees perceived
- This App Lets You Actually Experience Meta VR Glasses' Field of View Before You Upgrade | Road to VR
- Reddit: LCD HMD owners FOV complaints about Meta VR Glasses need a reality check
- Samsung's smart glasses just took their next step toward launch – Android Authority
- Samsung Android XR-Brille: Bericht verrät möglichen Starttermin | NETZWELT
- TDK demonstrates the world’s first direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror | TDK
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