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At the ongoing Google I/O 2017 Developer Conference, the search giant has officially released the word of the company to be coming with a standalone VR headset of its own ahead this year. Google has also announced that the company has teamed up with giants like HTC and Lenovo for making this VR headset.
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The wait for an exclusive premium headset from the mountain view-based innovative tech giant has finally ended! However, this is not a fresh new ball-game for Google as it has been quite an early entrant with its basic affordable VR headsets like the Google Cardboard and the Daydream View which was based on the high-end android VR platform. Both these headsets were the mobile-based VR headsets that would work by snapping in your smartphones in the VR boxes.
By keeping the affordability quotient in check, Google, with its Cardboard and Daydream View headsets, made persistent efforts to make more people aware, absorb, and enjoy the VR technology when it was new. Now that the VR technology has entered the mainstream technology arena, Google is making the right move by shifting gears to a dedicated standalone VR headsets.
The standalone VR headsets are certainly a preferred choice within the tech community as it removes the limitations of being tied-up to a smartphone along with the limitations of features like positional tracking. This means we can expect a plethora of advanced features over its previous VR headsets.
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‘WorldSense’ Inside-Out Positional Tracking for Standalone VR Headsets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJD34uGPQf8
And not only that Google is working towards having its own standalone VR headset, it is certainly going to add the most favorable feature on inside-out positional tracking. This means the standalone VR headset will have tracking sensors placed over it that make use of a specific algorithm to recognize the depth of the 3D space around it without any need for external sensors. Google is calling its inside-out tracking system as “WorldSense” that will deliver both rotational and positional tracking with 6 DoF.
As we can make out from the below image how ‘WorldSense’ is able to map the environment around you, wherein object and the table are defined as individual pieces of geometry and their volumes are being updated in real time that can give us a tracking and idea of our position in the 3D space.
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Google Expands Its Daydream View Ecosystem
The another good news is that Google has extended support to many more handsets for its existing Daydream View VR headsets. The first in line handsets to receive this support are the Galaxy S8, S8 Plus, and the upcoming LG flagship handsets.
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The thing with the Daydream View headset is that it needs smartphones with higher processing prowess that can support frame rates up to 60 fps and support its controller tracking feature for high-quality VR experience. We believe that companies like HTC, Huawei, ZTE, Asus, who were earlier announced as Daydream partners, will soon come up with their smartphone supporting the necessary Daydream essential hardware.
Now this seems to be something promising from Google… However, would wait for the makers to unveil some more specs and details regarding this
bro, I believe this is gonna be better in some way because google puts alot of R&D to give better products then the competition. Looking at their products history, they have given beteer products most of the time.