Samsung Wide FOV HMD

Pimax 8K Series
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…And a focus adjustment (adjustable optics) module.

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Ah, at least we’ve finally got someone drawing these sort of sketches, who has the sense to have the screen(s) wrap around each eye, in front of the nose, rather than plotting a single arc around the head for both – a long standing bugbear of mine (unless we were to talk lightfield displays - that would change matters). :stuck_out_tongue:

Note the varying distance between the (curved to allow for the FOV) lenses and the viewplane, which should counter field curvature.

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Yes this is coming!
Pimax should do some curved hmd patent soon or will stay out

Vertical fov doesn’t looks very high though

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How is this patentable?

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Believe it when I can purchase it

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Well, use of curved display in VR headset. I bet the patent has granted to some company already though.

BTW, I came up with that idea many months ago
https://community.openmr.ai/t/dissapointed-in-the-quality-performance/8265/103?u=trevorvr

And more about the patent @Heliosurge

Forget about me saying about 4 displays and StarVR…

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If only some TV/Monitor manufacturer had the foresight to patent a flat display for use in TV’s or monitor’s. Seems to be along the same lines. Ridiculous.

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Well according to Helio, Oculus patented the curved display in VR… so ridicule me.

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It’s all apple’s fault for patenting the shape of a phone.

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I wonder what issues will crop up with curving screens. The current GPU graphic pipeline is designed around flat viewports (which map to flat screens). Pimax had significant difficulties with (only) angled flat screens. I imagine curved screen distortion will be tricky to correct.

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Patents unfortunately need to be renewed if one wants to keep technology propitary(or fortunately as the case maybe).

Also sometimes patents were missed in filing as tge creator didn’t have the foresight on how much an impact their invention would have.

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That is the question as Oculus patented the use of curved displays last year. Wondet if samsung purchased rights to use this. :laughing:

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Panasinic uses 4 displays & fused optics in their 220 Horizontal FoV prototype headset.

StarVR one is just using Multi plane? Rendering. Something that actually has been around for some time.

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That was originally posted with Article link I think @Cdaked

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Very Unique optics special rendering requirements according to the dev at Berlin meetup’s article on pimax.

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I dont’t remember, but there is something.

And another patent from Samsung.

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Well I recall someone posted the article. :laughing:

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My understanding is this is not true patents are good for 20 years in US,Canada and internationaly by légal accord but a fee must by paid to the office patent to keep the right alive. After 20 years the idea is given on in the open but every patent is specific for example the Samsung patent include a curve display where the oculus is more a sperique display so the patents don’t really intersect themselves.

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Time to hire a lawyer. :laughing::+1:

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It could be that they patent a certain way the tech works.

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