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
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