Reddit mentions of Sony HMZ-T3W Head Mounted 3D Viewer (2014 Model)

Stuff like the Sony HMZ-T3W - not really VR, but a stereoscopic head-mounted display nonetheless (although with a microscopic fov; HMDs in those days used microdisplays as the smartphone industry hadn't yet pushed display panels with high enough resolution to small enough form factors to be usable, but microdisplays are, well, micro, so you get a miniature fov, which is one of the things Palmer figured you could fix (and did fix) with phone hardware).

I wasn't part of the pre-Oculus hardcore VR enthusiast group (which you could find on the MTBS3D forums), I only got to the party in 2013, so I'm pretty clueless about what these old-school VR HMDs are. People did try to make VR a thing in the 90s, it was a huge hype-fest that ended disastrously because obviously tech in the 90s wasn't even close to good enough, but there is hardware out there.

Here's a fun little bit of VR history, a post on the MTBS3D forums written by Palmer about the original Oculus Rift in 2012: https://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=14777 - note the first reply there, too; Cybereality went onto become the lead Community Manager for Oculus (and is mostly active on the official Oculus forums)

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HMZ-T3W-Mounted-Viewer-Model/dp/B00FNJGJN0

It puts you in a virtual theater for you to watch movies. They typically run close to $1k.

Well, it's a "Virtual Reality" headset, not a non-tracked 3d video viewer. You probably want something like https://www.amazon.com/Sony-HMZ-T3W-Mounted-Viewer-Model/dp/B00FNJGJN0

A: Oculus isn't supported by this app, period. It's for google cardboard.

B: In the case of the cardboard cinema app you need to have the video saved to your phone. The phone handles playing the video and head tracking.

If you want something you can wear on your head and stream video across HDMI to a screen you wear on your head, you're looking for the HMZ line by Sony. They're literally just a screen for your eyes and feature no head tracking. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HMZ-T3W-Head-Mounted-Viewer/dp/B00FNJGJN0

I'm just glad that I did not buy this piece of shit:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-HMZ-T3W-Mounted-Viewer-Model/dp/B00FNJGJN0

I was actually considering buying it :O

They did also make one that supported 3D and has much better resolution than the PSVR for 3D movies, but was very expensive. It is quite a bit cheaper now and they have made several versions.

https://www.amazon.com/Sony-HMZ-T3W-Mounted-Viewer-Model/dp/B00FNJGJN0

Edit: the link I provided I think is a cheap used one. They can sell for close to $2000.

I think the PS VR will be ok.

They have had a lot of success making HMD(Head mounted Displays) The PS VR isn't the first HMD that They the have made.
They (Sony) also made [HMZ-T1] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMZ-T1) and they also made successor models the [HMZ-T2,HMZ-T3] (https://www.amazon.com/Sony-HMZ-T3W-Mounted-Viewer-Model/dp/B00FNJGJN0)

These Headsets were well received but expensive but the PS VR is basically the same thing but with increased spec but sold cheaper.

There are games for the PS VR but I think there just basically demos showing off what it can do.

RE7 on the hand I think will be what really drags people in and really opens there eyes.

All it would take is one killer game at the right time that takes true advantage of the PS VR capabilitys to show other developers what they can do.

This bit is just conjecture but.
Hideo Kojima joined the 3D advisory board at [Prologue Immersive] (http://prologueimmersive.com) He's interested in making VR games and his position right now making Death Stranding might actually use the PS VR.

If Death Stranding Does use PS VR you can be damn sure a shit load of people are going straight out to buy the PS VR if they don't have it.

This is the most fanboy reply yet.

> People want a real competiton, not shady copy-cats (it's a rift clone) that with 10000x smaller budget announce features that bigger companies with much bigger staff cannot (for technologicall reasons).

It's an HMD. How is it a rift clone? I could say the rift is a clone of every single HMD that came before it. I could say that any smart phone is a clone of the iPhone. It's just a form factor, and it really isn't shady. Like what features? You can develop hardware when you're relatively small, mainly because you're only developing one (so hardware cost isn't a huge issue) and it only takes a couple good developers to write algorithms. Adding people simply increases the speed that these things are produced by, not the actual ability to be produced.


> They offer a magicall support for PS3/PS4/X360/XONE and don't say any details. They are misleading people. Are you okay with that?

How do you know? Maybe it just isn't polished enough to show off, but they're getting there? You're assuming that they are misleading people, which may or may not be true.

> Impressive, REAL innovations in VR space (including HMDs) always have a warm welcome here. 3 examples: Nvidia, Valve, InfitEye.

How is this not real innovation? Since when is innovation defined by large companies backing it? You realize that oculus had the same beginning? A small company asking for funding on kickstarter?

Isn't this it?

thanks, i'm thinking these are related tech