Comment Modern VR hardware is really disappointing (Score 1) 3
Seems like VR technology is moving backwards. All I want in an HMD is something that runs OpenXR and plugs into the GPU in the back of a PC. Last HMD on the market to do that was the G2... great hardware shit optics.
Now they all have their own hardware on board which needlessly adds cost, heat and weight of course proprietary walled garden app stores. Even shit like Pimax requires a goddamn "account" just to install.
If you want to connect to PC you either have to fork out another $100 for a proprietary cable or suffer with needless quality and latency hits over shit wireless transmission schemes. This isn't even some ultra low latency high bandwidth 60ghz scheme but just plain old WiFi. They don't even care.
Instead of foveated rendering we get foveated compression and tripling down on proprietary walled gardens and data collection.