Developer, 11 year reddit refugee

Zetaphor

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  • Resolution actually isn’t the major issue here, it’s PPD, or pixels per degree. This metric is what matters when you’re talking about the pixel density of a display when viewed through a magnifying lens. I have the Quest Pro and I can attest to pancake lenses being a MAJOR upgrade in terms of visual clarity, especially with text, but we’re going to have to wait for the next generation with microOLED before we can start seriously considering replacing our monitors.

    Apple’s headset isn’t doing anything particularly revolutionary, especially not because it has an onboard processor. They’re just the company who made a big splash because of their name recognition and it being their first foray into XR. The Quest 2/Pro also have an onboard SoC with a CPU/GPU and can also do supersampling via Qualcomm’s “Super Resolution”. Additionally they also have incredibly high quality hand tracking which just got even better with the most recent update, now allowing hand tracking while holding controllers. I’m personally holding out to see what happens with the Quest 3 as I refuse to buy anything in the Apple ecosystem.


  • Then I’ll know we’ve truly passed the threshold into mainstream adoption the day you change your mind 😅

    I am a huge fan of the technology, but we’re still very much at the part of the lifecycle where you it takes some adjustment both physically and personally to really adopt for long periods. The next generation of 4k microOLED displays and pancake lenses are going to break a LOT of ground in terms of comfort and visuals, but we’re still at least a decade away from a lightweight pair of glasses form factor.






  • To elaborate further from the other comment, it’s a person running a copy of the Lemmy software on their server. I for example am running mine (and seeing this thread) from https://zemmy.cc. Thanks to Federation all of our different servers are able to talk to each other so we can have a shared experience rather than everyone being on one centralized instance managed by one set of administrators (like reddit is).

    This provides resilience to the network. If reddit goes down, reddit is down. If lemmy.world goes down, you can still access the content of every community that isn’t on lemmy.world, and if other servers were subscribed to the content on a community from lemmy.world you could still see the content from before the server went offline (and it will resync once it’s back up).

    If we put all of our eggs into a single basket, we have a single point of failure. If all of the major communities go to lemmy.world then lemmy.world is that single point of failure. Doing that is effectively just recreating the same issues we had with reddit but with extra steps. By spreading larger communities across servers we ensure that the outage (or permanent closure) of a single instance doesn’t take down half the active communities with it.