Luckey: Photorealistic VR will rely on Micro-LEDs and advanced optics
Palmer Luckey · Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing · Apr 4, 2023 · at 10:19
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey discusses the engineering roadmap required to reach visual photorealism in virtual reality headsets with Alex Kantrowitz.
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“People, people often seem to think that there's got to be this big breakthrough, like that we're going to be scanning lasers. I'm like, no, I think actually things are going to look pretty similar. You're going to have micro LED displays that are very high brightness. You're going to have something like pancake optics or holographic optics or multi-material high refractive index material stamped optics, and you're going to put those optics in front of the display and you're going to be more or less done.”
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