Nvidia's cascaded display tech looks awesome

[jh30uk]

QUOTE:

"Two of the biggest challenges facing VR systems like the Oculus Rift are the dreaded screen-door effect (an artifact of low screen resolutions) and frame rate smoothness (which, if not sustained, can induce motion sickness). One obvious solution to these problems is to boost screen resolutions and frame rates. Doing so requires more graphics horsepower, but as ExtremeTech reports, Nvidia has developed an alternative method that doesn't.

The approach, called cascaded display technology, essentially works by superimposing two low-resolution panels and doing some crazy voodoo to fill in the missing detail. The video below outlines the technology:"

"This is so cool that I sat through the whole video despite the mind-numbing narration.

No, really. If cascaded display tech works as well as advertised—and makes it into the next Oculus Rift (or some other VR headset)—then it could lead to a palpably better VR experience for folks with less powerful gaming PCs. Technology like this could speed up the democratization and popularization of virtual reality by a longshot."



http://techreport.com/news/26836/nvidia-cascaded-display-tech-looks-awesome

 

[Gregster]

Very clever and a good vid cheers. I will be getting the retail rift for definite.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Whilst I can't see myself being interested in VR for a while yet, that technology definitely looks to be of benefit.

 

[Gerard]

Looks interesting

 

[AlamoX]

this could be a great tech, it's really an interesting approach

 

[shankly1985]

VR is something I really would like to try. Though I would after see how I handle it, I do get headache from 3D films.

 

[AlamoX]

VR is something I really would like to try. Though I would after see how I handle it, I do get headache from 3D films.

headaches from VR is due to refresh rate, as long as you have over 80, you wont get the headache, they basicly killed the VR with research they solved most problemes, now just need to bring the cost down

 

[bru]

Certainly an interesting tech, looks like it could be very useful.