Reports came out last year that Samsung VR was working on a product code-named Odyssey, and company execs admitted that Samsung was working on higher-end VR projects. Last week, photos of what was claimed to be final product photos we posted by Twitter user Walkingcat. The images, included in this article, show what would be a high-end…
During the 2017 Google I/O conference this past May, Google announced that it had partnered with Qualcomm to to produce the blueprint for Untethered HMDs which it dubbed Standalone VR Headsets, to be powered by the Google Daydream platform. These HMDs would use a new Technology Google developed called WorldSense, which is able to track…
We are not used to talking much about Kickstarter campaigns, as the products are to be considered as “rumors” until they actually hit the market. But we will make exceptions when we think the product could indeed fill a need for the 360VR Community. This is such a product. Our VR Headsets are quite often…
Lenovo has just announced that they are launching 4 new additions to their lauded Legion lineup. The announcement was made at gamescom, held in Cologne from August 22-26. The additions consist of three VR-ready Windows® 10 PCs Lenovo Legion Y920, Y720 and Y520 Towers, and the new Lenovo Legion Y25f Gaming Monitor. While the announcement…
This week, HP has introduced the latest in portable computing, the HP Z VR Nvidia Quadro P5200. Touted as “the World’s Most Powerful Wearable VR PC”, it is quite the mouthful and packs a serious punch. Portable computing is not exactly new but there hasn’t been anything like the HP Z VR Backpack before. A…
No snow? NO PROBLEM! Wet Suit? Check. Wheels? Check. Virtual Reality Headset?… Check?! With less than 200 days to go until the opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea, athletes from Lake Placid to Latvia have a lot of training ahead of them before the global spotlight is flicked on. The perseverance and…
We have mentioned this a few times before: Consumers in China have adopted Virtual Reality much faster than the rest of the World, already dabbling in Virtual Commerce. Well, today we find out from the ChinaJoy expo that HTC Vive is launching their Standalone VR Headset in China, prior to their worldwide launch. The headset…
The biggest buzz of last week was all about Facebook/Oculus‘ announcement of Pacific, a Standalone VR Headset from Oculus that would be released sometime in 2018, with a price tag of about $200 USD. A VR Headset is considered “Standalone” when it does not require any PC or Smartphone for its content delivery. In principle,…
Another day, another patent! We found out over the weekend that Samsung had filed for a patent at the USPTO late in December 2016 for a Magnetic VR hand controllers. The Abstract states that “The disclosure relates to a method of controlling an electronic device, the method includes, based on a magnetic field generated by a…
Just over a month ago during Google I/O, we reported with much joy the coming of WorldSense: technology that would enable Standalone VR Headsets able to track movement, without the need for either a smartphone or a PC, motion sensors, etc. Well, it seems a small company beat the Giants to the punch, as UK-based…
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