My second day of owning the Cinemizer OLED and since my 5th PS3 phat has died and by that I mean everyone of my PS3 phats ..all 5 of them have died ... once again following a software update ...I am testing on PC and Xbox 360 as I cannot get hold of another PS3 till after the weekend and I have to decide..replace the phat or embrace the super slim... lets get going.
The following video attempts to show you three things :
1.how bright the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED display is via the playing of Borderlands 2 on the PC .. It is not going to give you the hmd experience as there is no way to film that ..but it should show you the images the Zeiss is throwing out hold up under bright illumination.
2.It should also show you the excellent minimal optical distortion that Zeiss have managed to incorporate into their hmd, what I am trying to demonstrate is the minimum of effort your eyes have to go through to focus a clear image using the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED. You should be able to see the game titles and text in the video, this is in bright light with a lamp shining onto the Zeiss, now imagine the clarity of the picture when you actually place it on your nose. The Zeiss gives a perfect corner to corner flat ,uniform brightness, uniform colour picture with no lighter or distorted edges or areas as some have reported with other hmds.
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3. Take a look at me moving the Cinemizer OLED around .. I can do it with one hand the device is THAT light. A second day into owning it and the design and quality really show through. I love the way it looks, the curves the circular windows ,dioptre wheels and feather weight temple arms. It is all very steampunk .. I would love a Mahogany framed brass dioptre wheeled version . Play around with the Zeiss and you come to the conclusion this is the first hmd designed to be aesthetically pleasing and functional too.
Borderlands running in 1280 by 720 in 2D off my Intel HD3000 powered X220T under direct illumination.
What the video cannot convey :
The colour reproduction on the Zeiss is awesome, you may see a lot of blue in the video above, when I use the device I see ice, shimmering and gleaming, brilliant radiant colours as the day night cycle kicks in the game. There is not a pixel of the screens where black is not black which should satisfy AV blog trolls no end.. wait what am I saying ..they can never be satisfied...
And does the 870 by 500 res diminish the experience ? No I can read all the text playing at 1280 by 720 and the beauty of the OLED colours with it`s awesome refresh rate makes playing Borderlands 2 a joy to play ..bodes well for all Unreal based games.
There is no pixelation , you cannot see pixels. I played the game in 2D as I have yet to figure out a Tridef 3D setting that works with my hardware. Some people have speculated whether you can play FPS games on this , to that I say well hell yes from Dishonored in 3D to Borderlands demoing 2D the OLED tech used in the Zeiss makes it perfect for this type of game. Unexpected? Well they do say expect the un.. You could happily take this to a LAN or PRO gaming event or your copins house and be wearing a display that weighs less than your gamebro or gamegirls pro gaming headphones...
What you are getting here is almost the exact experience of the HMZT 1 or 2 in terms of colour but in something so light and portable that you can lift it with a finger.The picture is distortion free ,has no sweet spot issues just watch me pan the camera around. Does it come close to the awesome res of the ST1080 .. no hmd can compete on raw resolution terms with the ST1080 I could and have sat typing blog posts using it . On the ST1080 you can read text and HUD details in games effortlessly. But you cannot carry that control unit around without burning something, With the Zeiss it is magical how the battery pack/control unit does not heat up, I spend a significant amount of time tapping it to see ..and cool ... nothing seems to change the temp . With my ST1080 I have to place the control unit onto a solid plate to insulate it from the surface it is on, there is no way you could put it in your jacket pocket. smd always have the option of updating it though...
Video : I watched Prometheus in Tridef 3D, yesterday I saw banding in some side by side mp4 encodes I had watched using Windows media player. However using Tridef 3D player the picture was perfect. Prometheus looked great in 3D with all the black is black blacks an AV blog troll could want, the rolling opening scene looks amazing in Tridef 3D on the Zeiss. Again you are getting a Sony HMZT1 or T2 experience in terms of colour , but beyond HMZT1 or T2 in terms of comfort and portability and picture clarity. There is no picture distortion , no sweet spot issue just a flat large screen 3D ghost free film experience. With the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED you finally have a device you can take with you anywhere, with no fiddly PSU unit and a control unit that stays ice cool. The video res was 1080p scaled down on the Zeiss you really cannot see the difference that you would expect from this lower resolution. For film viewing this is a fine device and frankly the only device you really can wear and carry around without burning a hole in your pocket, or being Harold and Kumar`d on the plane whilst attempting to assemble it ( do not take your HMZT1 or 2 onto planes people).
Yesterday I promised to touch on the problems the Cinemizer OLED arrives with.
PC setup
The Zeiss is quite fiddly to set up with a laptop, there seems to be no way of turning off of the laptop screen when you have the Zeiss connected. I cannot tell if this deliberate or something which requires a firmware update. You have to take time to find the correct resolution and as the device resets every time you disconnect.
In contrast with the HMZT1 and ST1080 you just plug and play, no messing with 2nd monitor resolutions or frequency and you can switch off your laptop monitor whilst you use the hmd. With the Zeiss if you try to switch off your laptop monitor and use the Cinemizer as your sole screen the device resets and your laptop monitor changes res to become your sole screen even though you just made it clear to Windows 8 that you want the hmd as the sole screen.
With this hap hazard and totally manual set up I have managed to play Dishonored in Tridef 3D at 1280 by 720 on the ST1080 it takes seconds and you have no resolution setup issues. Setting the display to higher resolutions on the Zeiss has to be done through the monitor properties from Windows ,stepping up resolutions and frequencies as you go with some frighteningly fuzzy results on the way. You cannot start at 1080p it will just revert to the lowes native res of the Zeiss , you have to go through and up the resolutions step wize..
This is where the ST1080 shines , you just plug it and go and it is very likely it will be higher res than your laptop any way. You can send it beyond 1080p too if you have the gpu to do it but then you will run into text reading problems.
Surfing and reading text : 720p res or 1366 by 768 is fine for surfing using the Zeiss. Smaller text can go the way of gibberish but if you use sensible text sizes i.e. larger ones you should be fine, this is true of all hmds even the ST1080 gives you less grief if you pick sensibly larger font and icon sizes.. Whilst the HMZT series has a higher res, this is really quite irrelevant when reading text because you have the sweet spot issue, outside of which you cannot see text or icons clearly so it is irrelevant that the HMZTs do 720p if you can only see the centre two thirds or less of the screen and that is only if you do not move whilst wearing your 0.5 kg to 0.68 kg hmd.
I see the diagonal banding and pc set up issues as firmware problems. Zeiss need to work on getting an update which I am sure they will do once they get feed back from users.
Know then that , in this my second day of owning the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer OLED I have shaken off my fears of the lower res been amazed by the ice cool battery pack , confused by the power on power off, switch to 3D, PC setup mechanisms and fallen in love with the curves, steampunk design, colour and brightness reproduction as well as the light weight of this device..
When I first wrote about this device I pondered if I would be seeking a refund soon after receiving it. Refunds and returns are a big thing in the world of hmds .. the Sony HMZT1 is one of THE most annoying devices to be sold by Sony Centres as there are significant returns due to comfort issues and in my case due to dead pixels . With the ST1080 again there are people seeking refunds as they do not know what to expect from a device like the ST1080 and indeed the HMZT1. This is to be expected , the hmd format is alpha and baby if you just bought one you are part of that alpha test. Looking at the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED in front of me I can literally comfortably say, that short of receiving a damaged one very few people will ever look for a refund or return the item. Yes it cannot compare to the 1080p res of the ST1080, but it has the colours of the HMZT1 and comes without any of the comfort , optical distortion, immovability issues.
The firmware though and the way the device sets up on PCs needs working on, but hey that is just software.
What is thoroughly jump in an ice cold Norwegian fjord after sitting in a sauna for 2 hours way about the Zeiss is they got the physical ergonomic design , optics , power supply and portability right. You know these are going to get better along with the resolution of the screens used. So it really is just a matter of time before everyone from film fans to gamers to those who need to work on high res portable displays are satisfied..
I love the ST1080 it is the finest HMD of this generation but there is still room in my life for the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED. We need this competition, all this competition will eventually lead to those retinal projecting VR contacts that the great Steve Jobs was working on ... whoops let the cat out of the bag..
More to follow .... next up part III Xbox 360 gaming with the Carl Zeiss Cinemizer OLED... now leave me I have to bury or return my PS3 phat...they always leave you in the end..
feeling brave .. don`t need to read the next part of my Zeiss Cinemizer OLED experience ? Purchase in the UK/EU the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED 3D iPack including iPhone adapter
and in the USA the Cinemizer OLED
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