I was thinking that would be ideal, however there is another issue to overcome with that solution, the Inter Pupillary Distance (IPD) would have to change with your focus.

We have two IPDs - near and far. With current headsets you set the IPD to your far (or relaxed) IPD measurement. If your IPD is off (your pupils aren't in the center of focus of the lenses) then the image will appear blurry. So some sort of modification will have to be made to the optics or the IPD adjustment will have to be motorized and set to respond to your focus change.

What do you mean, "when"?. 40+ inch UHD ("4K") gaming monitors are already here! Even comes with freesync.

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Even more than that. Valve has worked hard to make Steam very feature rich. Unlimited installs, In home streaming, cloud synced saves, family sharing, big picture, VR mode, the card collecting meta-game, community features, Windows, Mac, & Linux support (most titles with access to all available versions), built in patching, built in modding support (workshop), etc.

Sure it has DRM, but they hugely offset the inconvenience of the DRM with features that take care of a lot of annoyances and issues players have had with or without DRM.

Not saying they're perfect. Their customer service could be greatly improved. That said, 7 years and I haven't had to call them for an account issue (knock on wood).

Or even back then. The Virtual Boy was released in July 1995 . That same year the VFX-1 (a true though limited by the technology of the time) virtual reality headset was released.

There's an excellent video infographic showing the breakup of AT&T and years later the the pieces re-constituting themselves .

Sure you do. What if the user decides to rotate their head 360 degrees in less time than the current latency to the remote system?

I would guess by crowdsourcing the data like they do with google maps (and slow roads, contruction, accidents). If multiple users report a source as being slow then it'll get marked as such for all others.

The app can do this in the background. And since it's done per app if you get a slow connection, then the next request for data can ignore the lying node.

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Yeah, but even engineers can get lazy. Why try to get 3900 mile lines even when you can just copy an paste the hoover dam blue prints 20,000 times?

Same here, I've been due for a monitor upgrade for a while (was running a triple 19" monitors), but it doesn't make sense to do that now since the budget can be used to snatch up Oculus CV1s when they come out (for less money)!

Easy way around this. Netflix could purchase thousands of DVD players, set them to stream, and lease the player to the customer.

Each month you can call in so many times to have them change the movie in the player!