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minus-squarethemusicman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 days agoThis is foviated streaming. The PC still renders everything at full, but the streaming compression is optimized for where you’re looking
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoDoes that mean there’s no forviated rendering in standalone mode?
minus-squarethemusicman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 days agoI imagine there will be for some games, but it relies on the game developer implementing it. Whereas foviated streaming works for all games.
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoThey showed a special build of Alyx only rendering where the eyes are looking and supposedly even that works well. I bet they’re working on a version of Alyx that can run natively on the Frame but it wasn’t fully ready for the announcement. And maybe a HL3 that works both in VR and flat.
This is foviated streaming. The PC still renders everything at full, but the streaming compression is optimized for where you’re looking
Does that mean there’s no forviated rendering in standalone mode?
I imagine there will be for some games, but it relies on the game developer implementing it. Whereas foviated streaming works for all games.
They showed a special build of Alyx only rendering where the eyes are looking and supposedly even that works well. I bet they’re working on a version of Alyx that can run natively on the Frame but it wasn’t fully ready for the announcement.
And maybe a HL3 that works both in VR and flat.