Several companies are
bringing standalone headsets to the market this year, including Oculus with the budget - friendly $ 200 Oculus Go headset, Lenovo with its $ 400 Mirage Solo Daydream headset, and HTC with the likely $ 600 - plus Vive Focus headset.
Not exact matches
Qualcomm is also working with Tobii to help
bring eye - tracking technology to
standalone VR
headsets, which will be another huge milestone for VR.
The forthcoming
headset, which allows users to step into virtual worlds without connecting to a PC or a smartphone, comes as Google races Facebook's Oculus to
bring a
standalone VR
headset to market.
Microsoft
brought a fleet of HoloLens prototypes to BUILD 2015, each of them a
standalone computer, eyepiece, sensor rig, and spatial sound system all integrated into a single
headset, and offered me the opportunity to see what creating a Windows Holographic experience was like.
HTC ended up confirming that it would not be
bringing launching its
standalone headset as a Daydream option, and instead would be launching in China as the Vive Focus running on its own proprietary Vive Wave platform.
With HTC out of the running that left Lenovo as the remaining brand which had already confirmed they would be
bringing out a
standalone Daydream
headset for consumers, but now that it's coming up to the end of the year Lenovo's
headset is nowhere to be found so it's clear the company didn't make its target date for a launch.
If you were holding out for that Vive - branded
standalone Google Daydream
headset, meanwhile, there's bad news — HTC and Google have cancelled their plans to
bring it to the US.