Most but not all of the lag components scale with refresh rate. There is a point where increasing refresh rate won't make much of a difference anymore, where that point is depends on how bad the non-scaling components are. Many input devices and some displays have shockingly bad lag and will dominate total lag even at 60Hz.

The thing with milliseconds is that they add up. 10 ms for input lag here, 10 ms for game logic, 20 ms for triple buffered rendering there, 10 ms for the display and you're talking some blatantly obvious amounts of lag.

Also I reject the notion that it's only about input lag. It really isn't, it's about motion blur from eye movements. Anybody who has used VR with and without reprojection at the same in-game framerate would be able to tell you that. It's far more obvious in VR but the problem is largely the same on flat displays.

They're about visuals, too. It's something you can't unsee once you see it. Look up UFO test and you'll get why it matters immediately. Strobing fixes the UFO tests but if your eyes don't perfectly track the UFO you'll see double images instead so it's more of a hack than a substitute for ultra high framerates.

If Nintendo is worried about somebody reducing their profits they need to take a look in the mirror and FIX THEIR GODDAMN STORE.

A made-up definition by wannabe comedians who failed to be funny.

But it's not.

Neither of which Manning has. They're both exceedingly rare anyway and pretending they have absolutely anything at all to do with the trans fad of recent years is disingenuous and ridiculous.

0 emphasis on the one thing VR does well, cardio exercise. Didn't think I'd see the day when Apple is more out of touch than Zucc.

I got one for Ring Fit Adventure and it's just nowhere near as fun as Wii Fit was, and it's not as good a workout as I can get from VR games like Pistol Whip or Dance Dash either. The only worthwhile experience I had on it was Super Mario Odyssey. Every cross-platform game I got on it thinking I'd play it hand-held I wish I got on Steam instead.

I did at least like the split ergonomics of the joycons, shame there's no real D-pad.

I wouldn't call VR a well served market, there's so much that needs improving. Visual fidelity is low, with narrow FOV and obvious optical aberrations even on the most expensive headsets, headsets are big and uncomfortable, full body tracking even when available at all is kinda garbage etc. etc. I won't even bother to complain about the software since for now I think it's so massively held back by the hardware.

The only thing I still have hopes for is that Valve isn't completely done with VR and that their next headset will be as sanely designed as Vive and Index were.

This is a textbook case of enshittification.

It always starts with the users.

For VR (just like the CRTs of old, for the same reason) 90Hz is the bare minimum for "the flicker doesn't bother me anymore". The jump to 120Hz or 144Hz makes it feel much smoother, but you can still see individual frames. My estimation is that the "individual frames" problem won't go away until about 1000Hz for normal head/eye movement speeds. Objects moving faster than that that would still produce visible individual frames at those frame rates could be motion blurred in software with no visible difference to the user.

Having shorter on-times reduces the blur but introduces other artifacts. 90Hz with strobing looks perfectly sharp but you see individual positions of moving objects which is not pleasant. You get a similar effect with PWM lights. The most visible example I often encounter is PWM headlamp in the rain or snow - you see individual "freeze-frame" droplets instead of smooth blur lines. It's hard on the eyes.

Blue light and melatonin is way overhyped anyway, what you actually want is dim screens before sleep, not necessarily yellow ones.

I'm pretty sure an individual number doesn't exist at all independent of the material being viewed. Visible flickering is gone by 90Hz, beyond that the speed of objects determines how visible the framerate is. If your framerate is too low you get to make a tradeoff between strobing and persistence of vision motion blur artifacts. Strobing (think CRTs or VR headsets) is visible as duplicate images, persistence of vision motion blur makes the image blurred (typical LCD, although some gaming monitors support strobing). If the difference between individual duplicate images or the motion blur is small enough that you can't see it, there should be no issue. That difference or blur is a function of how far the object moves between frame updates, therefore its visibility should depend on the speed of the objects as well as the framerate.

If you need to consider time delay, say how far a finger on a touch screen is ahead of the image being displayed, that's a whole other can of worms.