Palmer Luckey
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1,661 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Apr
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There's a lot of technologies that have been discarded because they weren't practical at the time and nobody ever revisited them and said, hey, I actually think the time has come.
A good example is with the Rift, doing real-time distortion correction
is not a new idea.
It existed in the 1980s and the 1990s in the virtual reality community.
It had been discarded even by NASA.
There's a fascinating NASA paper where they talk about doing real-time geometry distortion correction on a virtual reality headset that made the optics lower distortion and allowed them to therefore use wider field of view, lighter weight optics than would have otherwise been required to have an optically perfect image.
And the conclusion was, yeah, this is a really good way to save money and to save weight, but it's too computationally expensive.
We're using most of our processing power to warp the image in real time rather than render this wireframe image.
And so this is not a good approach.
You should just do it optically and then you don't have to have a more expensive computer.
But back then, compute was the expensive part.
And the optical transform used up a lot of your compute.
Nobody reexamined this idea even as computers got better.
Nobody went back until me and said, wait a sec,
you can do real-time transforms on a modern graphics card for like one or 2% of your render horsepower.
And also your graphics card doesn't cost $100,000 anymore.
It costs a few hundred dollars.
And so if you're worried about that one or 2% impact, just buy a graphics card that costs a few dollars more so you can save hundreds or thousands of dollars on the VR headset itself by using optics that have
geometric distortion and chromatic aberration, for example.
That was an idea that had been discarded and nobody ever came back to it.
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