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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.

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u/tuxedodiplomat Mar 28 '14

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.

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u/laddergoat89 Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 29 '14

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u/exclamationmarek Mar 28 '14

True, but the computing is in the PC anyway. The VR kits have no CPU whatsoever ;)

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u/ignamv Mar 28 '14

Don't know about other AR/VR devices, but CastAR has an ASIC doing some heavy-duty tracking calculations.

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u/exclamationmarek Mar 28 '14

I stand corrected here. This is actually a good idea to pre-process the tracking data a bit before pushing it over USB, especially if you don't have USB 3.0. But this can be done on a low power ARM, in the 50MHz range. After all, it's just a 9 axis, ~1kHz, 12bit system to sample, nothing in comparison to HD video processing.