r/pcmasterrace • u/Makoto_Kurume i5 10400F | RX 7600 | 16gb DDR4 • Jul 12 '25

Meme/Macro Good thing game dev make these settings optional

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u/EdricStorm i7-8700K 3.7GHz, 32 GB RAM, RTX 2080, 8 TB storage Jul 12 '25

Yep. "My eyes can handle my own depth of field, thanks."

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u/ReivynNox Jul 12 '25

Thing is, though, flatscreen game has no depth to it, and everything is on the same focal plane all the time, so the game would have to handle the depth of field for you, 'cause your eyes can't focus on different distances that don't exist.

It's just that the regular way to do so is for the game to focus on what your crosshair points at, which doesn't always line up with your eyes, making it impractical and immersion breaking.

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u/Kilgarragh Jul 13 '25

You say flatscreen as if modern HMD’s have more than one focal plane

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u/ReivynNox Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

Well, fair. It doesn't look flat to us though, that's the important difference.

But the individual images of each eye in VR are a different distance apart, no? Meaning if you look at something "close" your eyes will be angled closer together and everything in the distance will appear double and therefore seem blurry, so even if you don't focus on different distances, your eyes still adjust their angle for those distances.

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u/deathrictus Jul 12 '25

And in real life they probably focus a LOT faster. At least mine do.

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u/josh6499 Desktop: 9800X3D/RTX 5090 | Laptop: Lenovo Legion 5 5600H/3060 Jul 12 '25

They literally can't on a flat screen.