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Easy Allies Podcast #303 - January 28, 2022 (Patreon)

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2022-01-28 20:01:00
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Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxh7gEp453Q

This week is mostly about new stuff. Blizzard’s trying the survival genre, Crysis is ready for a sequel, Respawn is working on 2 more Star Wars games than we knew, Nagoshi launched his new studio, and Meta has something scary in VR called Horizon.

00:00:46 - Corrections
00:02:54 - Who-Gamed-It?
00:04:11 - Blizzard’s Survival Game
00:15:30 - A New Crysis
00:25:33 - Respawn’s 3 Star Wars Games
00:36:27 - Nagoshi Studio
00:43:10 - Meta’s Horizon Worlds
00:56:24 - December 2021 NPDs
01:05:40 - Also This Week
01:10:30 - Game: Canadian or NO-WAYdian
01:13:25 - L&R - Microsoft acquisition fates
01:17:21 - L&R - Sony or Microsoft handheld?
01:20:21 - L&R - Favorite snow levels?
01:22:25 - L&R - Games to be longer/shorter
01:24:58 - Time for Bets
01:29:34 - Closing
01:30:24 - January 2022 Producer Thanks

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Comments

Anonymous

oh jeez. I kinda bungled it with the canadian "citizenship" line as that complicates things. Possible incoming corrections I think sorry guys! :(

R.F. Switch

Always a nice thing to put on in the background when I'm feeling sick.

Anonymous

Is there a patrons version podcast playlist?

EasyAllies
>>76668094

If you go to Patreon on desktop, there's a tab titled "My Membership." That has a personalized RSS feed with all the audio files available at your reward level and can be plugged into any app like a normal podcast feed. -Bloodworth

potato potato also another potato
>>76735393

Rebellion is the epitome of...i want to try this but I feel like I need to spend a few hours reading up on HOW to play it first. Damn good once you learn it, but it's a VERY opaque game at first glance.

Zkarts

I'm gradually catching up to the podcasts again as I'm making my way through the GOTY deliberations too, so I might have missed my moment, but I still wanted to chime in on the PS VR 2 and its foveated rendering (fo-vee-ated). My master thesis happened to be on foveated rendering, specifically leveraging it to perhaps reach realtime ray-traced rendering (that is a complete frame rendered solely through ray tracing for higher quality). I used a kickstarter VR headset (Fove) that contained eye tracking as one of the earliest, if not *the* earliest. There is a very small part in our eyes with the highest density of cones that gives us really good vision. That area is called the "fovea" (hence the term "foveated rendering") and corresponds to only about the size of your thumb nail at arm's length. Outside of that space, the quality of our vision falls off rapidly. Just try looking at a word and reading another 2 lines away. It's roughly a 5° circle in our vision in which we see fine detail (of which the fovea is even only 2°), which seems dramatically bad when you realize we have about 160° vision horizontally and 135° vision vertically, but it's really all we need when we focus on something anyway. For foveated rendering we use that information combined with eye tracking to only render that small area you focus on at maximum quality and decrease the quality gradually towards the periphery. Our peripheral vision is blurry anyway, so why spend the rendering budget on that? That brings down the cost of rendering quite a bit and increases frame rate, which specifically for VR and VR sickness prevention is very important. Interesting to note is that I found that there was already research into foveated rendering for the regular PS VR, although that one did not have eye tracking, so this has been in the works for a while already. It makes sense too, because it helps keep frame rates higher. The higher the screen resolution, the higher the percentage saved performance, so that's a good match with the 4k screens on the PS VR 2, and it is really one of the only ways to feasibly increase screen fidelity in VR going forward. Foveated rendering is here to stay :)