What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years (Steam Dev Days 2014)
What it is
Michael Abrash of Valve explains what affordable VR hardware will be capable of within a couple of years, and describes a prototype showing what that level of hardware can do.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited for his plain-language explanation of how VR convinces the brain and for resolution and pixel-density figures.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2014, last 2017
What HN commenters said
“Michael Abrash of Valve now at Oculus giving a basic description”
Abrash's basic description of how VR convinces the brain
mkeblx, 2015-08 · Recommendation · in “I Tried VR and It Was Just OK”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: vr, michael abrash, valve, presence, display latency
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