A video from SBG Labs showcasing how they would approach a holographic HMD.

That's a pretty good FOV, what are you smoking, especially with AR displays being less than 35 degrees in today's age? I'm talking bout for augmented reality. ;)

I never implied that you could see the dog and the soccer ball, with that you would need a FOV of 150°+ just to see a little bit of the dog in it's current position.

Journalists have been reporting Hololens prototypes to be basically a galaxy note/iPad from a arm length away, that's what I call small/disappointing. That adequates roughly to a ~ 40° FOV. With the first picture I showed, It displayed a FOV of about ~60° or greater which is more appealing. Getting it to this is a accomplishment in it's own right. https://i.imgur.com/GmAy01B.jpg

I'm currently using a 15 inch wide display at a distance of 22 inches; recreating this would require a horizontal FOV of only 38 degrees.

To be exact that would be a FOV 19°.

One report from the hands-on demos said that it was "like a 16x9-ish monitor floating about 7 to 8 inches just in front of your face.[2] " Assuming the width of that "monitor" was a mere eight inches, that's an FOV of 53 degrees by 31 degrees.

We don't know that for sure, that reporter didn't specify an estimate display size, which basically tells us nothing. We could guess that he meant a 20 inch monitor (common monitor size) from 7/8 inches, which gets at a 68° FOV, which is really not bad, but sounds off (based on conflicting reports). Eurogamer reports a FOV of a 15 inch monitor from a foot away which equals to about a 35° FOV.

If we assume a width of 12 inches at a depth of 8 inches, that's 74 degrees; 16 inches at 8 inches is 90 degrees.

Are you sure about that, the FOV is not that at those parameters.

Keep in mind that he theoretically sees all of this from this distance from the wall. https://i.imgur.com/Cnc2S1D.jpg

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