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Standalone, wireless and untethered VR headsets is the next big transformation that is expected in the VR industry. At the recent CES 2017 expo in Las Vegas, tech giants took the opportunity to showcase their developments in VR technology. Computing giant Intel announced its Project Alloy VR headset with ‘Merged Reality’. Similarly, folks from Pico Technology have arrived with a completely standalone VR headset – Pico Neo CV.
Pico Neo CV is a wireless VR headset with self-computing abilities and does not need any console, PC or high-end smartphone to be connected to it. The Pico Neo CV is expected to be launched ahead this year in 2017 along with the Pico Tracking Kit and its other business-centric VR headset – The Pico Neo DK.
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The Pico Neo CV headset comes with a pair of 1.5K AMOLED displays with an excellent 90Hz refresh rates. Additionally, the headset comes with built-in Hi-Fi speakers with AM3D 3D spatial rendering engine and a battery (unspecified capacity) for longer viewing experiences.
The Pico Neo CV is based upon the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC. It comes with 4GB of system memory and 32GB of onboard storage with an additional 128GB of SD storage capacity. There is no word regarding the software to power up the headset. But it being based on the ARM SoC, we can expect it to be running on the Android OS or else the company could also have a completely different OS running to its heart.
While announcing the Pico Neo CV, Paul Viglienzone, vice president, business development, Pico Technology said “Our talented Pico Technology team designed the Pico Neo CV with a consumer-first approach so that users can simply put it on and go without being tied to a computer, console or mobile phone. As the premiere global center of innovation and technology, CES is the perfect place for us to debut the Pico Neo CV, as well as showcase our entire suite of Pico VR products, as the breakthrough headset prepares for launch in 2017.”
Along with the headset unit, the company announced its own separate tracking system that offers motion tracking capabilities with six degrees of freedom. However, there was no word regarding the pricing for the device.
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Tracking is the next thing that needs to be combined with VR headset now that they are very common.
I am ready! Please let me know when and how much,I can purchase..Thanks
So how does the tracking work? It requires a separate camera? I thought the intel one was inside-out tracking?