Lenovo VR Headset comes with higher resolution than Rift CV1

"The headset's display is made of two 1440×1440 panels, making it higher-res than both the Vive and the Rift."

Source:
https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...ers-the-vr-race-this-spring.9231/#post-116535

I am looking forward to see the first real comparison charts. The lack of resolution and the blur in long range distance views on track is the only thing i do not like on my CV1

I am taking a wait and see approach, as so far only non-working HMDs have been shown off.

Keep in mind that screen resolution is only one measure of a VR display and even that is debatable for VR, compared to traditional notions of resolution, as the image is warped and then unwarped via the lenses, to allow a screen so close to the face and rendering over a full 360 degrees. Other important VR screen measures that significantly influence quality are subpixel configuration, pixel spacing, refresh rate, persistence, refresh type, pixel change response time, pixel on-off delay, colour accuracy, brightness and finally lenses.

With VR how much of the screen pixels are used per eye makes more sense as a measure than the actual screen resolution of a traditional monitor. Higher screen resolution does not necessarily mean less screen door, it just makes it more likely that there is less space between the pixels.

Lens warping also has significant effects. With traditional lenses the visual trade off is chromatic artifacts, with Fresnel lenses the visual trade off is god rays, to a greater or lesser extent, but a much bigger sweet spot of higher rendered resolution. Lens focal length also affects 3D rendering quality somewhat.

The displays of the Rift and Vive are 90hz. The Rift also have global update and improved pixel coverage, the entire screen flashes at once instead of scanning over each row or column like a traditional display, as part of the screen door effect is the space between pixels.

For all the wonders of first gen VR screen technology, lenses and software manipulation, it will likely be up to 5 years before VR has a perceived image quality of 4K screens. One of the biggest challenges in getting there is real time eye tracking and Foveated rendering, where only what you are looking at is rendered high resolution, as your eye does IRL.

You will be.

Yes i did and it improved the image quality tremendous. Unfortunately i only get 30 fps with forcing AA8, pixel density 1.5 and enabled Post Processing (GTX 970).

Thanks @Blame73 i will try this out.

> it's still bugged in VR: objects in far distance are sometimes not rendered in both lenses.

I can not confirm that issue on my system (Win7 Pro) but one of my eyes is very bad so maybe i can not recognize it.

The Pimax does not actually give you a genuine 4K per eye @ 90htz, not even close, it is upscaled only and uses antiquated HDMI 1.4 instead of 2.0, which itself is a huge capacity limitation. It also reportedly suffers from ghosting.

Already responded here re likely new release developments for Rift and Vive: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...-4k-200º-fov-headset-at-ces.9532/#post-122058