Thursday, 2 March 2017

LG’s new headset is basically an HTC Vive, with an awesome flip-up screen

For the past couple of years, HTC and Valve’s virtual reality efforts — which produced the HTC Vive in 2015 — have seemed largely interchangeable. But Valve’s SteamVR platform isn’t limited to one manufacturer. Earlier this week, LG and Valve introduced a competing headset with many of the Vive’s features — but a few serious design tweaks.

Currently, LG’s headset is a development kit, which the company says will be going out to developers in the next few weeks. This means that its design isn’t final, although it seems far from a rough first effort. The headset uses a single 3.64-inch LG screen with 2560 x 1440 resolution, or 1280 x 1440 pixels per eye. That’s the same resolution as the Gear VR, and slightly more than the Rift or Vive,...

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from
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/2/14769624/lg-valve-vr-headset-development-kit-hands-on-gdc-2017

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/03/lgs-new-headset-is-basically-htc-vive.html

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