You gotta be kidding me. Sony?

I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this yet! Thanks so much for posting. I am beyond excited lol. I didn’t know enough about optics to know if this was possible or not so it’s awesome to see that someone has actually done it (and that they work for nVidia!!).

Unless I’m missing something, this comes very close to completely solving 3D display. The only thing we need to do now is make displays with ridiculously high resolutions :P Although that will happen with time so I’m not worried :)

All they would have to do is stand in two different locations and take two different screenshots. All they did was distort the right image; if you cross your eyes you can see it’s just a bulge.

Interestingly enough, a working prototype of a refocusable display called a Near-Eye Light Field Display has been built by a researcher with NVidia. Unfortunately the main difficulty comes from that it condenses a high resolution display down into a much lower effective resolution in order to achieve the effect. So in order to have even 1080p refocusable, you’d need close to a whopping 15,000×8,000 source display image, which is well out of reach of anything resembling consumer hardware for the foreseeable future. But we can always dream. (Here’s hoping VR takes off pretty well.)

http://lightfield-forum.com/2013/07/refocus-your-eyes-nvidia-presents-near-eye-light-field-display-prototype/

Going with Oculus Rift as well.. I would make TOTAL SENSE :)

Well if you compare 3DTV to VR, than yes… but I personally enjoyed Assasins Creed 3 on PS3 in 3D mode, especially when I was in bigger forest areas..

I understand and respect your opinions, but its such a shame that you dont include it since your engine more or less supports it.. of course it wont stop me from buying your game ;)

Anyway, thank you very much for your comment! :)

I don’t like 3D TV; I do not think there is any point to it.

I was thinking it was obvious.

@Jonathan: Do you plan to add 3D TV support for PS4? Now there is only Trine 2 supporting native stereoscopic 3D :)

I think I’m going to put on the head set, sit down on that beach shown in the wallpaper images, and then never leave…

:)

As I said, it is probably VR, but I doubt Oculus VR…

BUT you can read JONATHANs comment ;)

Sony VR!!!!

Terrific — and ties up the seeming oddities nicely. Now on to the haptic feedback for apple blossoms brushing against your cheek as you walk past, right?

This image is cropped to eliminate the trademark rounded border that you see in oculus screenshots, but make no mistake, it is definitely distorted. Notice how straight lines in the first image are curved.

Also notice how the left and right eye images aren’t even the same width, and the images are not a standard screen resolution, or even, indeed, the same resolution between the two images. This points to the images being cropped and otherwise manipulated.

I was about to say, ignoring the obvious distortion differences, the viewpoints are very similar (seem to have the same near vs. far overlaps for each object)

The actual distortions applied to these images are not the real ones. You can think of it as just being a test of an arbitrary distortion function. When you plug in a particular VR device, the distortion gets set up to be what that device wants (which is going to look pretty different from what’s in these images). Really these images are just saying, “hey look, we made the engine able to render two views simultaneously with different camera positions and distortions.”

(There may also have been a bug in these shots that put the cameras too close together, anyway!)

Oculus uses much more barel dissortion, these are almost normal + video output should have rounded borders, these images are from edge to edge

See this http://static.oculusvr.com/website/2013/06/oculus_world_demo2.jpg

Why do you assume it’s definitely not Oculus? Back up your argument.

I would assume there’s only no 3D effect here because they don’t want to overhaul the rendering pipeline to support stereo rendering until they are sure that it’s worth it.

Weird. I get an obvious depth effect when I look at them cross eyed…

Most likely

It does put me in a quandry. I’ve entertained the possibility of buying a Rift once they go full commercial but I don’t know how serious that wondering really is. But if my most anticipated game for the past 3 years comes out on this and is the best way to play it, then I don’t know quite what I do. Will be even more conflicted if a VR version is not with the Rift which seems to have the momentum or it doesn’t release on that on Day 1.

http://www.fisher-price.com/en_US/brands/viewmaster

@_@

While I understand that Jonathon & Co. are somewhat beholden to SONY,
“The Witness” can’t possibly be for SONY’s HMD only, as that POS stinks on ice.

Don’t believe me?
Go to YouTube and search: SONY VR CES 2013 & look at all the scathing reviews
from people [particularly The Verge & WIRED] just moments after they tested it out.
Summary: It’s like sitting in front of a big TV/Not at all immersive.
Go on & look, you’ll see ….

…Or the Oculus Rift.

Just what I was thinking. ;3

3D TV support, perhaps?