TBH it'd be more weird to have actual eye tracked foviated rendering and not specifically call that out. Right now they've effectively said they're on par with the current market leader in rendering techniques to allow devs to get better performance.
Yes, Cambria will be high end and high cost where they're going to test out new features like pancake lenses and self-tracking controllers. They expect successful experiments in Cambria to appear in the Quest line at some point, most people expect Quest 3 (and are assuming a 2023 launch).
No-one knows but we do know Cambria isn't aimed at us and any elements it introduces that are successful will end up in the Quest line at some point. Doesn't make sense to release Quest 3 in the same year so 2023 makes a lot of sense for a Quest 3 with some of the Cambria features in it
Fixed point foveated rendering is something you can do and I believe some games already do on PSVR1. I don't know how FB advertises their headset. I doubt they had a bullet point that said foveated rendering when they revealed the Quest. The bottom line is, there is hardware to do eye tracking so devs will have everything to do foveated rendering. Now of course how good it'll be is up in the air, but if it was a bullet point in their hardware reveal it means that it's good enough to have at least some kind of benefits implementing foveated rendering.
I hear your point and I guess we'll see, its just super odd to not explicitly call out eye tracked foviated rendering if that's what it is. The point about foveated rendering in the session was right next to the one about about field of view which according to the list in this thread is the same as the Quest FoV so we know they're making talking points out of features that simply match rival headsets.
Vive Eye Pro released in 2019, aimed at enterprise w/3-4 times price of PSVR, and it's capable of foveated rendering based on eye-tracking. Seems purposefully obtuse to theorize that it was willful obfuscation on Sony's part and question if the PSVR2 can do it in 2022. Smells like "PS5 only supports 100 games in BC" argument due to presentation wording.
FoV is an improvement over PSVR1. Not so surprising they spent time highlighting FoV improvement, since their early adopters are likely PSVR1 owner in large parts. Fixed point foveated rendering on the other hand is something that exists on PSVR1. If they mention foveated rendering, imo it'll be very disingenuous if it's not tied to their new eye tracking hardware. Bottom line is, devs have access to eye tracking. So e.g. devs can use gaze information for variable rate shading which is not as drastic as changing resolution and might work well enough even if eye tracking is not the best. I really think if they had the bullet point 'foveated rendering' it means they are confident through their own preliminary tests that devs can use eye tracking to adapt rendering accuracy. Anything else would be very bad PR which Sony is generally (since PS4 era) cautious to avoid.
You know that foveated rendering is a thing in its own right that doesn't require or necessitate eye tracking? If you have an eye tracked version of that why wouldn't you say so?
Can you do me a favour and source that for me, I can't find a reliable source as everything's now talking about the PSVR 2 presentation :D
It's just bloody weird to throw up 'foveated rendering' multiple times, which we know is a thing in its own right and fairly standard for VR now, and not mention it is eye tracked - which would be the impressive thing. Bad PR is having that capability and not saying you have it IMO especially when they've explicitly said gaze tracking is for gameplay.
Many PSVR1 games were more blurry around the edge of the screen. Are you seriously doubting that developers are able to render at non uniform resolutions across the screen on PS4? That's not even PSVR related, that's asking if game developers have the most basic of access when creating their games.
Worth mentioning here that sufficiently precise haptics can literally be used to simulate physical shape/weight of small-objects* in VR.
Multiple example of launch-games doing it (and how Pro/base differ) in this video:
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UploadVR's report of PSVR2 from back in May which is now proven to be accurate said it was "gaze tracking capable of foveated rendering", so it should be a real foveated rendering solution.
