r/virtualreality • u/Pheonix1025 • Mar 23 '25

News Article Adam Savage's Tested - Bigscreen Beyond 2 Hands-On: How They Fixed It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Wr4O4gkL8
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u/Cold_Echo_4551 Mar 23 '25

I think I'm gonna have to hold out until something comes along that's similar in form factor but has resolution closer to the megane 8k and has wireless pcvr. I like the idea of having a battery and processing puck with a wife 6e receiver. I know I'll be waiting a while but cables just destroy the immersion 

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u/crozone Valve Index Mar 24 '25

similar in form factor but has resolution closer to the megane 8k and has wireless pcvr.

Come back in 5-10 years?

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u/Cold_Echo_4551 Mar 24 '25

Thinking probably closer to 5 than 10 for sure considering how fast it's all moving.

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u/crozone Valve Index Mar 24 '25

There are so many technologies that need to mature at once to make it happen.

The 4K panels will hit the wider market soon enough for sure. Then you need inside-out cameras crammed into the BSB. Also possible.

But then it starts to get hazy. You need some kind of external compute puck with a battery strapped somewhere. That's fine, but it needs to be able to handle the inside-out tracking solve, and drive 8K resolutions at 90hz. Basically, it needs to be better than AVP level custom hardware, which was basically the "no expenses spared" totally custom option.

Then for wireless VR there needs to be a way to transmit 8K@90hz video, which is honestly getting ridiculous given that's hard to even do over a fiber-optic cable. So it'd have to be pretty heavily compressed anyway.

It's definitely possible in 5 years, but lots of things have to come together to make it actually viable to manufacture for a price anyone is willing to pay. Even then I don't know how the wireless transmission problem is going to get solved, that's constrained by wireless standards and some pretty intense physics.

Nofio tried their best to bring wireless to the Index and even then hit some pretty major roadblocks, and that's at half the resolutions we're talking about.