Nvidia Shows Off Near Eye Light Field VR Headset

[BoFox]

The Virtual Reality Los Angeles Expo (2016) aka VRLA, happened over the weekend and Nvidia was one of the companies that demoed its technology. Specifically, the NE LFD (Near Eye Light Field) HMD (Head Mounted Display) headset. 

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Currently, all VR solutions on the market have some form of motion sickness when viewing objects that are close to the virtual camera. According to David Luebke senior director of research at Nvidia: “This is because of the vergence-accommodation conflict, which is how much the lens of your eye has to change to bring sharp focus to your retina.” This means that if for eg, you are viewing something as close as your hands – it will inevitably lead to motion sickness. The new technology, called the near eye light field stereoscope, will address the vergence-accommodation conflict and result in a completely natural and more flexible experience.


Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-light-field-vr-headset-vr-la-2016/#ixzz3yP6sdYtD

Hopefully it is really worthwhile sooner rather than later (despite such low resolution for now).

[RolloTheGreat]

This will never take off.

Everyone knows those postage stamp size lenses are too small to fill a person's field of vision.

NVIDIA should hang it up and admit that an AMD APU putting out 1080p on a WallyWorld tv is the ultimate in virtual reality.

[BoFox]

Yeah, if the screen is going to be a few inches away from the head like in the diagram above, it's just gonna be too heavy for the head, period.  The center of gravity will be leaning the head forward - and unless people like putting a tripod under it like with Nintendo's Virtual Boy, it like you said, will never take off.