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140: Cortex: In the Metaverse

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The Impediment to Focusing in VR

We're trying to read from our computer screens like and I'm not excusing it here but these screens do not have the resolution required to make that look like they just. Bad resolution text on a bad monitor in the real world is still a flat object that you're looking at with your two eyes whereas in VR the headset is generating two slightly different images to give you the illusion of 3D. For absolutely everything if those two images aren't like perfectly created or your headset isn't perfectly sitting it's going to be like ever so slightly out of focus but you won't even notice which is why I think for any of the gaming stuff this never even comes uplike I never think about right

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