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AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 11 2017, @02:53PM   
from the next-up:-chipless-wires? dept.

takyon writes:

AMD has announced the acquisition of Nitero, a company that made a "phased-array beamforming millimeter wave" wireless chip for VR/AR headsets:

Nitero has designed a phased-array beamforming millimeter wave chip to address the challenges facing wireless VR and AR. Using high-performance 60 GHz wireless, this technology has the potential to enable multi-gigabit transmit performance with low latency in room-scale VR environments. The beamforming characteristics solve the requirement for line-of-sight associated with traditional high-frequency mm-wave systems, potentially eliminating wired VR headsets and enabling users to become more easily immersed in virtual and augmented worlds.

I'll say no thanks to a headset with cables connected to it. Those are for the early adopters.

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• oxygen oxygen (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:04PM (1 child)

  by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:04PM (#492320) Journal

  Oxygen attenuates 60 GHz signals, a property that is unique to the 60 GHz spectrum.

  -- http://www.bridgewave.com/products/tech_overview.cfm [bridgewave.com]

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• danger adds to the realism (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:19PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:19PM (#492332)

  Make the VR game be some sort of Mars thing. Run the game in a room with cold nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Players wear rebreathers to survive. High-end systems can even be low pressure, with players wearing pressure suits.

  Other options: Moon (just vacuum), World War I (nitrogen and chlorine), and bad coal mines (methane, hydrogen sulphide, hydrogen).

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