But Qualcomm notes that
VR headset makers are already using its earlier chipsets: Lenovo's Mirage Solo and HTC's Vive Focus are both based on the Snapdragon 835.
With these specs in mind, it's easy to understand why
VR headset makers would be interested in Emagin's technology.
Despite all the improvements
VR headset makers are doing, the lack of content and pricing still deters most buyers from jumping into this bandwagon.
Later this year, HTC will be one of several
VR headset makers to release a standalone headset that runs on Google's Daydream platform and won't require a phone, PC or any other hardware to run.
The VR headset makers are all set to ship their devices in the first quarter of 2016 with first VR game for Oculus Rift being Lucky's Tale.
While a lot of AR /
VR headset makers focus on creating headsets which are lighter and softer, the Bridge seems to be on the unconventional side.
The VR headset makers announced Lucky's Tale as the one to be surfaced with Oculus.
Fortune reached out to NBC to learn if the network plans to supply 360 - degree video of the Olympics to other
VR headset makers.
Obviously HTC Vive isn't the only
VR headset maker offering Black Friday deals.
One person taking up the challenge of Hideo Kojima was Palmer Luckey, creator and founder of
VR headset maker Oculus (and now a bit of a controversial figure thanks to his political involvement) Palmer Luckey.
Facebook purchased
VR Headset maker Oculus in 2014 for 2 billion dollars, looks like it finally found a spokesperson (pokes - person?)
Earlier this month,
the VR headset maker also announced the shipping of EVE: Valkyrie, which is space - themed from the makers of Iceland.
The eye movement tracking
VR headset maker has closed a deal of $ 11M Series A. Samsung Venture Investment is one of the main investors.
With no dominant
VR headset maker and little prospect of near - term consensus, the lack of standardization will remain an issue for the next few years.
Kopin is developing the Eagle in partnership with Pico Interactive:
a VR headset maker.
Not exact matches
HTC,
maker of the Vive virtual reality
headset, is worried about the proliferation of cheap
VR products that will soon flood the market.
Two more virtual reality
headsets are hitting the market from Taiwanese gadget
maker HTC and Facebook's Oculus
VR business unit.
HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer and
maker of the Vive
VR headset, said Monday that it has partnered with Tate Modern on an upcoming exhibit featuring the works of painter and sculptor Amedeo Clemente Modigliani that will be accompanied by a new
VR project.
Facebook - owned Oculus and Taiwanese phone
maker HTC have had to live with these truisms since introducing their respective
VR headsets, the Rift and the Vive, earlier this year.
The smartphone
maker is teaming up with video - game company Valve to roll out a
VR headset later this year.
Facebook set tongues wagging when it paid $ 19 billion for instant - messaging startup WhatsApp last March, then followed it up a month later by shelling out $ 2 billion for virtual reality
headset maker Oculus
VR.
The big winners of Facebook's $ 2 billion deal to buy Oculus
VR, a virtual reality
headset maker, include a roster of elite venture capitalists who invested in the company early on.
Among its bets was Oculus
VR, a virtual reality
headset maker that was discovered early on by Lonsdale and Koo, who later joined the company's Series A and B rounds.
«We believe that the movie will drive sales of
VR headsets that require high - performance GPUs [graphics processing units] from chip -
makers Nvidia and AMD,» he wrote in a research note.
Although
headset maker insists «protecting developer content is critical to the long - term success of the
VR industry»
So when Facebook shocked everyone on Tuesday by announcing it was spending $ 2 billion to buy Oculus
VR, a
maker of virtual reality
headsets, you knew game enthusiasts would have something to say about the deal.
It has been revealed the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tested Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCE) Project Morpheus virtual reality (
VR)
headset for PlayStation 4 before making the decision to purchase Oculus Rift
headset makers Oculus...
David Georgeson, development director for the team's EverQuest franchise, confirmed as much to IGN while speaking about the recent acquisition of Oculus Rift
headset makers Oculus
VR by Facebook.
On January 26, HTC's now former - design lead and the
maker of the HTC Vive
VR headset and HTC 10, Claude Zellweger, joined Google Daydream platform.
As the
VR headset market continues to grow and mature alongside initiatives like Daydream and Windows Mixed Reality, hardware
makers have been able to drive down costs over time...
Granted, all ships rise in a high tide but what does this really mean for the budget
headset maker which uses a phone to power AR and
VR?
One of the issues AR and
VR headset -
makers face is providing a big enough image from a micro-display without making the whole assembly bulky and unwieldily.
After a longer wait than perhaps was initially anticipated, the
makers of probably the best PC - connected
VR headset in the world unveiled their first standalone effort in China a few months ago.
Google Daydream and its ability to launch a unified platform is going to be what gives ZTE
VR a boost - the same goes for other Android - phone -
makers - turned -
VR -
headset - designers.
While Modena isn't the first PC I've seen with a front - facing HDMI port for
VR (the MSI Trident is a recent example), it's nice to see more PC
makers embrace the trend of helping you set up your
VR headset as painlessly as possible.
The social networking company announced in March it reached a $ 2 billion deal to acquire Oculus
VR Inc., which owns virtual - reality
headset maker Oculus Rift.
Mozilla is working on a new web browser for standalone virtual and augmented reality
headsets, a sign that the Firefox
maker doesn't think the
VR / AR movement is going away any time soon.
Mobile phone
maker Alcatel is the latest company to embrace
VR with the launch of a new
headset, and a new 360 camera to create Virtual Reality content with.
Carmac left id Software in November 2013 to work full - time as Chief Technical Officer for virtual reality
headset maker Oculus
VR.
Qualcomm thinks standalone virtual reality (
VR) is the way of the future, and to help move that future along the chip
maker is out with its second reference design
headset on which partners like Google Daydream, HTC and Oculus will base their own devices.