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The headset, which the company will reveal tomorrow morning [Tuesday] in San Francisco, will likely cost $79, Variety reported Monday. The headset will be manufactured by HTC, the same company rumored to be making the Pixel and Pixel XL, a pair of phones Google is also expected to unveil Tuesday, according to Variety.
The new headset underscores the tech community's growing interest in virtual reality, which promises to transport goggle-wearing users to a computer-generated 3D environment. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform, much of it going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and shooting 360-degree videos.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @03:25PM
I want an affordable, translucent, monocular display that I can use in a wearable computing solution.
NOT something that will prevent me walking, driving, working machinery.
NOT something that will do all the fancy GPS gyroscopic accelerometer facial recognition AR tricks.
NOT something that will try to fake up reality.
Just a simple display that will display a standard screen. On which I could run a browser and a few SSH sessions. Something that I can use in a meeting without checking out. Something that I can sit back and use comfortably, no desk needed.
You want ubiquitous computing, Alphagoogle? Start there.
First-person-only VR is for electrowankers. Wearable computing is still the big win, waiting for you to win it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:01PM
I want direct connection to the visual cortex, at least 2 channel audio implants, and dopamine injectors for an immersive VR experience.
(Score: 3, Funny) by ilPapa on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:31PM
I want some cinnamon toast.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:37PM
Google glass was supposed to be that but as usual, Google lost interest in that project.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:55PM
No. Google Glass wasn't supposed to be anything like that.
It didn't have a generic interface that one could connect to an arbitrary wearable solution.
It had that really stupid camera add-on.
It had its own display logic trying to act like a smartphone screen.
It had that stupid voice recognition thing.
It was a platform, not a display. It was bound to Android, used a lousy display resolution, incorporated irrelevances such as Bluetooth, gyroscope, accelerometer.
If they had just stuck to a simple, straightforward HDMI cable going down to a belt mounted or pocket mounted wearable device, they would have been golden. But no ...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:45PM
Can't you simulate that for testing purposes by buying a pirates eyepatch and a Wyse-55 serial terminal with a really long keyboard extension cable?