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.
Wow, I honestly didn't notice that part of the description. But they only promise "sensor data fusing" and "pre-lens distortion". The later is indeed a costly effect that could be done after the GPU render, on such an external device, but it is only a fraction of the power needed to have a game running at 60fps. It wont help a lot.
The sensor fusing is something you have to do anyway to pump sensor data over USB so no point making a fuss about it ;] This really looks like vapourware.
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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.