Netflix says Vision Pro is too 'subscale' for it to care about
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Netflix says Vision Pro is too 'subscale' for it to care about::As revealed last week, the Netflix app won’t be available on Vision Pro when it launches next week, nor will...
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Yeah conceptually it sounds great!
here's the deal: even at the higher resolution they tout, watching shows in vr always comes with something sitting on your face, generating heat, with not insignificant weight, and a limited FOV. you can turn your head to look at that gigantic screen sure, but the actual device FOV is 110 degrees - your unobstructed FOV is 110 per eye, but the overlap differential could mean 20+ degrees combines. Anyway, even with a very wide FOV for this device, there's very little gained from a giant virtual screen 10' away as you'll always be degrading the watching experience in bitrate (gotta go over wifi baby, then transformed into texel space, then tracked, then rendered, then drawn to each display hopefully with low enough latency) - this business isn't free, it costs computational time and heat.
So while I use virtual desktop with my index and quest 3, and it does have some great features, it hasn't displaced my displays.
Maybe in a few more generations.
Yeah I messed with this before and everything you say is true, plus enjoy hitting the headset with your glass or whatever every time you want a drink, can't really eat anything either. The only option is to sit still and watch, very disappointing.
For me the only use case for this has been when I'm really tired and want to watch while lying flat on my back. Unfortunately most of the apps don't even support this. But Netflix actually did.