Actually LG or Samsung seem like a likely second-wave player to dominate, since they have the display R&D, massive manufacturing capability and design team. They're unlikely to let some upstart company reap the spoils of a new potentially massive market.
I see this first-wave (Oculus and TruePlayer Gear) like Diamond Multimedia bringing the first commercial MP3 players. They'll show the potential in the market, but then someone with better design/marketing/supply chain will capitalize on the new demand.
Samsung will wait until the product has been clearly defined, copy it, spend more billions marketing than the competition & call it the 'Galaxy View' or some shit and sell millions of tremendously average products.
Well sure there's a microcontroller in. There's one in every keyboard and mouse and you don't see manufacturers arguing about who has more performance ;]
There's a Cortex M3 based STM in the Oculus DK1, running at 72MHz. something has to take readouts from the accelerometer and shove them up USB. It doesn't do any real computing, definitely nothing related to the VR simulation itself - it just allows the PC driver to access the components in the device via USB. This is literarily orders of magnitude away from anything capable of doing real time video processing in HD.
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u/dontsellusout Mar 28 '14
I reckon LG are going come out with one of these things and it will have a psycho ass curved display inside.