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Blast from the Past - Powerful SEGA Mega Visor Display VR

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
While it is difficult to speak about the phases of VR innovation stretching from 1960 to 1990, here is an example of a forgotten platform that actually made a significant difference to the perception of VR headsets, and was emulated in a number of ways by at least two manufacturers in their future VR designs.

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https://www.vrfocus.com/2020/07/the-virtual-arena-blast-from-the-past-the-vr-1/ ;
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
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pyroth309
Visionary

Pixie40 said:

Then there are people like me who quite honestly don't see much of a difference. When I switched from CRT to flat screen, I didn't see much of a difference in image quality. The differences I did see were due to my CRT tv being 20 years old and on it's last legs. To me, image quality didn't change much. Only image size changed due to having a bigger TV. Similarly going from standard definition to high definition, I didn't see a difference. I still don't see one beyond the size of the image. Now I have a 4k screen I'm using for my computer, and I still don't see a difference beyond "Oh my god, the UI in my PC games is too damn small".



I actually thought LCD tv's looked a lot worse when they came out. CRT had great colors, at least my CRT monitors did. But, it was nice not to have a 50lb monitor anymore that took up a huge amount of space on my desk so I did it for the flatness and convenience of LCD's.

Resolution on the other hand is quite important to me, but it depends on the size of the monitor and how far away from it I am. IE under 27" and if I'm sitting 3 feet away, anything above 1440p isn't necessary. On 17" and below laptop 1080p is fine. On my 49" tv..anything under 4k looks terrible lol.