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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 10 2017, @09:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the ontology-in-VR dept.

Google Is Building A New Foveation Pipeline For Future XR Hardware

Google's R&D arm, Google Research, recently dedicated some time and resources to discovering ways to improve the performance of foveated rendering. Foveated rendering already promises vast performance improvements compared to full-resolution rendering. However, Google believes that it can do even better. The company identified three elements that could be improved, and it proposed three solutions that could potentially solve the problems, including two new foveation techniques and a reworked rendering pipeline.

Foveated rendering is a virtual reality technique that uses eye tracking to reduce the amount of image quality necessary in areas covered by the peripheral vision.

The new techniques mentioned are Phase-Aligned Rendering and Conformal Rendering.

Also at Google's Research Blog.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:09PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:09PM (#608095)

    How will this improve my p0rn-viewing experience? Lets be honest here, it's all that VR is good for at the moment.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:16PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday December 10 2017, @11:16PM (#608102) Journal

    It will render the boobies or poooooooosy you are intently focusing on, discarding unnecessary details like the lamp in the background that would only lower your "FPS".

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @12:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 11 2017, @12:15AM (#608124)

      There is a lamp in there ?

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by rts008 on Monday December 11 2017, @12:41AM

      by rts008 (3001) on Monday December 11 2017, @12:41AM (#608131)

      ...like the lamp in the background that would only lower your "FPS".

      The Lamp!!! Now I know why it makes you go blind!
      *note to self: find sunglasses*

      'FPS', Faps Per Second?

      Double clutching can also lower your FPS. ;-)