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880 points Philpax | 13 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.494s | source | bottom
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Night_Thastus ◴[12 Nov 25 18:38 UTC] No.45904028[source]▶
The whole "foveated streaming" sounds absolutely fascinating. If they can actually pull off doing it accurately in real time, that would be incredible. I can't even imagine the technical work behind the scenes to make it all work.

I'd really like to know what the experience is like of using it, both for games and something like video.

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1. rowanG077 ◴[12 Nov 25 18:41 UTC] No.45904077[source]▶
There is a LTT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU3ru09HTng

Linus says he cannot tell it is actually foveated streaming.

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2. Night_Thastus ◴[12 Nov 25 18:43 UTC] No.45904104[source]▶
I believe in Linus very little. I'll keep my eyes peeled to see what others say. It's certainly possible though, Valve has the chops to pull it off.
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3. stetrain ◴[12 Nov 25 18:56 UTC] No.45904351[source]▶
Norm from Tested said the same in his video.

https://youtu.be/b7q2CS8HDHU

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4. ◴[12 Nov 25 18:58 UTC] No.45904402[source]▶
5. potatolicious ◴[12 Nov 25 19:21 UTC] No.45904875{3}[source]▶
The Verge reports similarly - can't tell foveated streaming. Seems like Valve really cracked the code with this one.
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6. birdman3131 ◴[12 Nov 25 20:29 UTC] No.45906099[source]▶
Thats not what he said. What he said was even rapidly moving his eyes around he could not spot the lower resolution part.
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7. rowanG077 ◴[12 Nov 25 21:11 UTC] No.45906760[source]▶
If you are going to be pedantic then at least do it right. Because that's also not what he said. He said that no matter how fast he moved his eyes he wasn't able to catch it.
8. archon810 ◴[12 Nov 25 21:21 UTC] No.45906897[source]▶
Same with Dave2D https://youtu.be/356rZ8IBCps.
9. nabakin ◴[12 Nov 25 21:21 UTC] No.45906900[source]▶
Also mentions 1-2ms latency on a modern GPU
10. nabakin ◴[12 Nov 25 21:23 UTC] No.45906930{4}[source]▶
I don't think a lot of people realize how big of a deal this is. You used to have to choose between wireless and slow or wired and fast. Now you can have both wireless and fast. It's insane.
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11. stetrain ◴[12 Nov 25 21:25 UTC] No.45906951[source]▶
How is that meaningfully different than not being able to tell that it's foveated?
12. stetrain ◴[12 Nov 25 21:26 UTC] No.45906967{5}[source]▶
Yep, that basically guarantees this as a purchase for me. It's basically a Quest 3 with some improvements, an open non-Meta OS, and the various WiFi and Streaming app issues fixed to make it nearly as good as a wired headset.
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13. nabakin ◴[12 Nov 25 21:29 UTC] No.45907004{6}[source]▶
I haven't bought a VR headset since the Oculus Rift CV1, but this might do it for me