Google is moving past
Cardboard.
The company may
reportedly be announcing the standalone Android VR headset from next week’s
Google I/O occasion. Entrepreneur and former technology journalist Peter Rojas
offers tweeted that Google may launch an untethered Android VR headset in a few
days according to his several sources.
Rojas noted his sources
had confirmed how the headset will be “less powerful compared to Vive or Rift,
” which given it's standalone mobile nature isn't any surprise. The
high-powered PC graphics cards required to run the Oculus Rift or even HTC Vive
setups cost a minimum of $300-ish by comparison, and therefore are quite bulky.
The price is the
critical note for Google hitting here. Cardboard has did wonders because all
consumers have required to do is slot their smartphone right into a $15
cardboard headset and immediately dive to the experience. With a separate
product, Google will need to build something that moves after dark power of
high-end mobile phones and delivers superior optics however is priced
aggressively.
Samsung has gotten an
earlier advantage in the mobile VR space using the Gear VR, but it's done so by
promoting the headset (which takes a compatible Galaxy or Note device) of them
costing only $99. Samsung had several million people on the apparatus VR platform
last 30 days, undoubtedly the fruits of Samsung and choose carriers giving the
headset away free of charge with S7 pre-orders.
Google has spent high
of its VR efforts in the last two years enticing developers to create simple VR
content. Cardboard like a gateway drug to VR offers proven quite successful
with regard to Google, though there’s still quite a distance to go in garnering
the actual interests of content designers. More than 5 zillion
Cardboard-compatible VR headsets have shipped.
TechCrunch will be
confirming from Google I/O in a few days in Mountain View to determine what’s
next for Google within the virtual reality space. Along with rumors of tighter
VR integration inside Android N, it’s likely that I/O might find a host of
VR-related bulletins.
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