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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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471 points tosh | 4 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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unusualmonkey ◴[16 Oct 24 17:46 UTC] No.41861740[source]▶
"The movies that play in virtual screens are native to the films’ aspect ratios, which can vary movie to movie, eliminating the black bars of “letterboxing” and “pillarboxing” you typically have on iPads, iPhones, or MacBooks."

Then proceeds to show screenshots where more than 50% of the screen is background. Just because you decided to show cloud instead of black doesn't mean it's not letterboxing.

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1. Terretta ◴[16 Oct 24 19:03 UTC] No.41862615[source]▶
The screenshots are misleading. "Inside" an AVP watching a movie the corner to corner angle can exceed THX recommendation of 40 degrees.

Doesn't seem like a lot until you hold a protractor up to your eyeball. And then you realize how much area falls outside that angle, surroundings you don't think about at the theater.

The AVP has to render that unwatchable area for you as well, and it ends up in screenshots.

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2. unusualmonkey ◴[16 Oct 24 22:28 UTC] No.41864485[source]▶
You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance.

Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie image.

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3. Terretta ◴[17 Oct 24 00:06 UTC] No.41865160[source]▶
> You can do the same thing with any screen by holding it the appropriate distance.

Exactly! Commented earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41862459

> Keep in mind that all that unwatchable area is pixels that aren't being used to improve the movie image.

Or maybe it's like the Philips Ambilight+Hue, that people swear adds immersion by letting content color the environment around it.

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4. unusualmonkey ◴[17 Oct 24 06:00 UTC] No.41866829{3}[source]▶
Lol, adding a hue is usually a crutch for a too small screen with lifted blacks... which doesn't paint the pro in a very positive light!

Ironically by adding a gue to a nomral screen, you're effectively 'adding' pixels to the display... unlike the pro which wastes pixels on the 'hue' because many of them are not in the ideal viewing angle.