Proper means correct. It's an unbiased, impersonal calculation of what you would see, given your particular screen size and distance from the screen. There are no "approaches", it's a mathematical calculation. What you're talking about it comprimising the proper FOV to achieve certain ends which is up to the individual playing the game. One can choose any FOV they like based on their personal likes and dislikes and what they want to get out of the experience, what they want to see on the screen etc., but there is only one "correct" FOV calculation.
There is one correct calculation for every setup period. Everything else is an adjustment for personal preference.There is what and there is how. What you're talking about is how. To a get a 100% correct how that's also functional to play with you need to have a big screen and sit close to it, or use a multi-screen setup, because otherwise it's like watching the world through a tube. Computer games can usually have a more correct how than video games, because you usually sit closer to the computer screen than to the TV, so you don't miss out as much on the peripheral vision.
Now you've got it. By definition, a mathematically correct FOV is 1:1 with what you would see looking through your monitor as if it was a window to the real world. It only really works well if your monitor around 1m or less away from you, and the larger the better. Everything other than the mathematically correct FOV is personal preference and a comprimise between visibility, sense of speed, immersion, accuracy etc.
If your only priority or your top priority is sense of speed, yes. Some of us have different priorities, which is why we try to make our FOV as accurate as possible and set up our systems to achieve that goal. Once I made the move to a much more accurate FOV for example, I didn't give a hoot about sense of speed as the more realistic look and my own increased driving accuracy was quite intoxicating.
And this is where optional motion blur would help as I stated earlier. You can have both an accurate FOV and a good sense of speed with motion blur, if that's what you desire. Two other things that help with this are a virtual mirror in cockpit view and a minimap proximity indicator, which GT5 had and was dropped for GT6, Offering motion blur, proximity indicator and the minimap as options gives you the best of all worlds. You can still choose an innaccurate, high FOV to see all the mirrors and get high sense of speed if you want, or a more accurate FOV along with motion blur, minimap and proximity indicator to retain a sense of speed but keep cars and actions on the screen looking the same way they would look in real life. Or any combination of the above.
I think Simon should use a more realistic FOV
Agreed. Motion blur, when used properly, is realistic. However, motion blur is also kind of a polarizing effect, so I think all games that use it should make it optional.Well I always complained about the FOV and sense of speed in GT because the FOV is simply too narrow. It cuts off too many visibility at the edges. GT uses different FOV's in each camera View from Wider to narrow it's like Cockpit, Roof/hood, bumper cam, Chasecam. The chasecam has such an extrem narrow Fov that it kills the sense of speed completely because it feels zoomed it. When you be on a track and focus on an object far away and switch the views you will noticed in chasecam things suddenly come waaaay closer. And as bigger the TV and as closer you sit to it as slower it feels.
Going at top speeds in GT feels slow. You still will be able to see every crack in the asphalt, every little piece of grass aswell as the flowers, going down LeMans over 300km/h looking left and right you can even make out every Leaf on the bushes and trees you passing aswell as none stop repeating asphalt or grass textures or screws in the barriers. When I drive on the Autobahn on the left lane near the plants which are usually there seperating the two directions on the autobahn my eyes can't focus nothing , everything flys by blured. So motion blur is one thing which is missing. The other thing is the narrow FOV my eyes in reallife still notice things flying by when they actually pass me on my driver level you can actually test it with your own hand. See how long you will be able to see it even if you put it on your ear level. Those things you would still see already start to disappear in GT before you actually pass them and make things only appear to coming at you but not actually pass you because they are already out of your perspection when they actually fly by.
But the only right and best thing to say about all this is. OPTIONS! To each their own. Everybody has their own preferences and also own setup.
If PD gives us simple options as in every PC Sim. FOV adjustment aswell as motion blur strenght we'd be all happy.
People who like no motion blur simply wont enable it. Others who like it enable it. People who want a narrow FOV set it as narrow as they love to And people who want it wide, widen it until it feels nice.
Can't be better than this
Personally I like a little camera shake, especially at high speed. Luckily every game I've played that has it, has it on a slider so you can adjust it to your liking.
Yeah I feel that too
) I have to say has a very nice sense of speed for 60FPS. Mind you this is on the default settings. The only thing I adjusted was the high speed shake. I'm on the PS4 by the way.
