{"id":1764,"date":"2014-02-13T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2014-02-13T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T18:28:41","slug":"oculus-deaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/02\/oculus-deaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don\u2019t really see how a VR set would work (successfully enter mainstream) without sound, you know the thing that really brings immersion.<\/p>\n

The developer kit and probably the consumer version too use HDMI, that thing used to transfer AudioVisual signals<\/strong>. But no headphones because it makes sense to ship a product meant to immerse you while you hear a baby crying and your friends laughing at your ass.<\/p>\n

Also, wouldn\u2019t motion sickness be better controlled if audio and visual outputs were designed together? And what is this \u201crealistic sound\u201d obsession, I see around? It never will be perfect because ears are far more precise than eyes and no headphones will give you a true sense of \u201crealism\u201d. If we need a 20.2 surround sound system to achieve this, no headphones algorithm will I\u2019m afraid. And that\u2019s OK. We can already make us dodge something with a simple 2D pan. It\u2019s all about being believable, not accurately computerized. Am I the only one here\u2026<\/p>\n

Audio is always technically optional and that\u2019s tragic because at the same time, it doesn\u2019t require much. That\u2019s why tablets and phones are awesome, sound is standard. Pretty low fi, but standard and that\u2019s good thing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to ship a complete experience and to me, the Oculus Rift should ship with headphones and be a premium product that it already is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t really see how a VR set would work (successfully enter mainstream) without sound, you know the thing that really brings immersion. The developer kit and probably the consumer version too use HDMI, that thing used to transfer AudioVisual signals. But no headphones because it makes sense to ship a product meant to immerse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}