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done this before but now can't find it, so... posting this so i can find it again from an old remedy talk. max payne level design scale. his house before and after they realised you can't just build shit at real-life scale and expect it to work as a level. i am always pulling this out for folks

It's a rectilinear projection issue - the 3d geo is projected to 2d preserving straight lines at the expense of everything else vs the human eye emphasizing what we're looking at, making a fisheye bulge of lines in peripheral vision. Curious if realistic scale w/ Panini projection would feel good.

It doesn't, it feels very weird

the same reason it's hard to get a good photo of a group of people in a small room even though it's easy to have full awareness of them as a person who is present there

Can you say more about your experience with this realistic scaling? What is happening?

Could you make like the camera "smaller" like an eye somehow?

also has absolutely nothing to do with visual style. doesn't matter how realistic you're going

funniest version of this I can recall was in gears of war, where the handles were about at cole's head height

There must be a more technical term but I call it "subjective fov". we don't normally realize how, optically, we have a massive fov, enhanced by the fact that our brain accumulates information over time. But we can also selectively zoom in on things.

I believe this is why on certain scenarios, even 4K resolutions at living room distance may seem insufficient when they generally should be. I wonder what would happen if we brought foveated rendering to flat screens.

Seems like this problem wouldn't happen (to an extent) in 1st person VR, but now I'm curious about 3rd person VR