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Who wants ultra-wide virtual reality porn? I do!
StarVR’s ultra wide virtual reality headset should make watching virtual reality porn videos of massively wide girls possible. Yes, this will be possible but this is not the greatest benefit of StarVR’s unique headset. An ultra-wide headset will make VR porn experiences super-duper immersive because as humans, we have wide fields of view. So by providing a wider field of view, StarVR’s headset removes some of the constraints that other headsets with narrower fields of view encounter.
Human Field of View
To understand why StarVR’s new headset is going to be great for virtual reality porn, gaming, and general entertainment, it is necessary to know a bit how humans naturally encounter and see the world. According to Wikipedia, “The field of view is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment.” In other words, the amount of the world (in angles) that you can see with your two eyes (cyclops have a different thing going) is a field of view.
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Also according to the faultless Wikipedia, “Humans have a slightly over 180-degree forward-facing horizontal arc of their visual field, while some birds have a complete or nearly complete 180-degree visual field. The vertical range of the visual field in humans is typically around 135 degrees.” Overall, this is important when it comes to virtual reality because this means that developers should aim to match our natural vision. Naturally, matching the constraints of our natural visual field will make virtual reality experiences more immersive.
StarVR
This is what StarVR is doing. In contrast to other developers like Oculus that have headsets with a roughly 100 degrees of horizontal field of view, StarVR is shooting for a massive 210-degree field of view that is represented by 5120×1440 pixels of resolution. You may ask, why are they overshooting? If humans naturally see at 180, why is StarVR attempting to make a headset that will provide a 210-degree field of view?
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Providing extra degrees is useful because our eyes are not restricted to a fixed 180 degrees right in front of us. Because our eyes rotate, our field of view can transition and move. StarVR says that providing 2010 degrees makes it so users never see the side of a perceptual field. They argue that this is necessary for a “complete” sense of immersion.
Lacking Boundaries
By providing an image that has no boundaries on the sides, users will not have the feeling that they are looking through binoculars or a window to another world. People that have tried StarVR’s headset say that experiencing the 210-degree field of view makes it difficult to go back to the limited binocular-like experience of the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive headsets.
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To achieve this massively wide image, StarVR places two high-resolution displays into the headset. This potentially could have made the headset much heavier which would be bad for immersion. That said, StarVR has figured out a way to keep the overall weight of the headset down so that it only weighs a bit more than something like the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive.
All in all, when StarVR’s headset comes to the market, virtual reality porn consumers will be in for an extra immersive treat! VR porn environments will appear much more realistic and immersive without the binocular vision experience of the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive. Now the question remains, how much will this double display headset cost?
good! nice to know about these FOVs since i’m not really familiar with these things. but yeah, got your point. this is surely something the hakunas need to focus on too, right? or are they already?