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

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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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:05PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday April 11 2017, @04:05PM (#492322)

    Ok, this solves the wire problem, but without the wire you need batteries. Lots of batteries. Why do you think Google pulled the plug on Glass?

    Longer term nobody is going to want to wear a pound of VR helmet. Even if it is just a passive receiver and display + sensors the power drain is going to be non-trivial. We really need something better than lithium batteries.

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