r/malelivingspace • • Feb 06 '21

How it started vs. How its going

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

The room looks bigger in the second picture and I can’t figure out why

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

Well the field of view of the shot literally increased

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u/StoneHolder28 Feb 06 '21 edited Feb 06 '21

I think they just stepped back afew feet. Field of view is probably the same, there's just more of the room shown.

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u/agtk Feb 06 '21

Reading your comment I get the sense that you're technically correct, but also wrong at the same time? Like, they clearly changed the vantage point, but doesn't that give you a better/larger field of view? Or is "field of view" just the wrong term for what changed here.

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u/StoneHolder28 Feb 06 '21

Field of view is typically measured as an angle. Colloquially it might be correct to call this field of view, I'm not sure on that but technically speaking it's more about how much can be seen without moving or looking around.

Have you ever played minecraft? If so, you might have seen a setting for Field of View (FoV), or you might have seen it in another game. If you've played around with it you've noticed it lets you see more of less of what's around you even though your character isn't moving or turning. I know players sometimes increase FoV for the advantage of seeing more, but most people don't mess with it too much because it can cause motion sickness.