Google Developing Standalone Virtual Reality Headset: Report

Google is adding to a virtual reality headset that works without a cell phone or PC, The Wall Street Journal reported, refering to individuals acquainted with the matter. The organization has in the later past solidified its endeavors in the space, with the formation of another division committed to virtual reality.

Letters in order Inc's Google presently offers a virtual reality gadget made of cardboard into which clients slide in their cell telephones. The standalone headset would contain all the equipment required to work it, not requiring to be associated with a console, PC, or a cell phone.

The new plastic VR headset will incorporate a screen, powerful processors, and outward-confronting cameras, the Journal reported, refering to one individual. The standalone VR headset will likewise utilize chips from Movidius that will utilize the headset's cameras to track the movement of the client's head. To review, the organization had joined forces with Movidius to bring picture acknowledgment to cell phones and other Android gadgets.

Movidius told WSJ that it works with numerous organizations on virtual reality and increased reality, yet declined to expound.

The new Google standalone VR headset should take the "center ground", offering a superior ordeal that cell phone based headsets like Google Cardboard and the Gear VR, yet not as refined as the Oculus Rift of HTC Vive, which both require top of the line PCs to run.

The organization might discharge the headset when this year, however report likewise alerts that Google may not yet be prepared to convey in 2016. It is presently anticipated that would dispatch another rendition of Cardboard at its I/O 2016 designer occasion in May, and in addition local VR support in Android.

Following the dispatch in 2014, Google has delivered five million Google Cardboards.

The organization declined to remark on the Journal report.

Composed with inputs from Reuters