From: Robin Hollands Subject: Re: PROD: General Reality Introduces New Wide FOV HMD Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 11:00:03 +0100 Message-ID: <3371A423.1174@shef.ac.uk> Organization: Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield Arthur Zwern wrote: > NEWS RELEASE > > General Reality Company Introduces Low-Cost Wide Field-of-View > Head-Mounted Display > > The CE-200W provides a 45 degree horizontal field-of-view driven by > high-resolution 181,000 pixel active-matrix LCDs for each eye. Is it just me, or has there been a diluting of standards recently :-) A 45 degree FOV may be wider than GR's standard offerings, but surely it can't be classed as wide! If memory serves me correctly, visual immersion i.e. the feeling that one is in the world instead of looking at a screen, occurs somewhere between 60 and 100 degree field of view. The CyberMaxx gor close at 56 degrees, but 45 degrees is nowhere near. That's not to say this isn't a fine a HMD, but surely it's stretching the truth to call the FOV of view *wide*, especially if compared to some of the high cost 100 degree HMDs! Cheers, Robin Email: r.hollands@sheffield.ac.uk WWW: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~vrmbg/staff/rjh/rjh.html BOOK: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~vrmbg/vrhmhb/vrhmhb.html