MikeMikeJuliet Posted July 5, 2017 Posted July 5, 2017 (edited) Hello everyone. I, and a bunch of others in our DCS Finland simming group have come across a new player in the VR/AR market that might be of interest to a lot of people here eventually. Varjo Technologies is a finnish startup with developers from Nokia, Microsoft, Intel and Nvidia to name a few. By all accounts they are developing a new VR/AR headset to mimic the human vision, meaning a huge leap in picture resolution... and there is a twist in all this. From what I've read from our local news, the trick is to only provide high resolution in the portion of the display that the users eye is looking. According to Varjo, the resolution of the human eye away from the center drops to about 1 pixel per degree. This apparently is how they intend to alleviate a lot of the performance impact such a high resolution would otherwise have. As the name of the device suggests (20/20), the point is to mimic the perfect human vision in the center of the users field of view. This is done apparently by tracking the eyes, so in theory you should never see the low resolution bits. Varjo is looking to provide the first products later this year considering their professional version. Apparently a consumer version is in plans, but likely won't be available until after a couple of years. The price of the professional industry version has been hinted to be significantly higher than the current generation headsets. If this project succeeds, I feel it will be the go-to headset for simulations. At least I will be looking into this closely. Take a look for yourself: http://www.varjo.com/inthenews/ http://www.varjo.com/ EDIT: Here's Wired's news on the subject: https://www.wired.com/story/varjo-vr-microdisplay/ Let the discussion commence. Regards, MikeMikeJuliet Edited July 6, 2017 by MikeMikeJuliet DCS Finland | SF squadron
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