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Corporations, not consumers, drive demand for HP's new VR headset
Today, HP is launching the Reverb Virtual Reality Headset Professional Edition. As the name might imply, the audience for this isn't the consumer space, it's the commercial space. The headset will have a near-identical consumer version, but HP's focus is very much on the pro unit because that's where the company has seen the most solid uptake of VR tech. The big VR win isn't gaming or any other consumer applications: it's visualization, for fields such as engineering, architecture, education, and entertainment, combining VR headsets with motion-actuated seating to build virtual rides. The company has also found that novelty items such as its VR backpack have also found a role in the corporate space, with companies using them to allow free movement around virtual worlds and objects.
Accordingly, HP's second-gen headset is built for these enterprise customers in mind. Their demands were pretty uniform and in many ways consistent with consumer demands, with the big ones being more resolution and more comfort. To that end, it now has a resolution of 2160×2160 per eye, using an LCD with a 90Hz refresh rate. The optics have also been improved through the use of aspherical lenses, for a 114-degree (diagonal) field of view. AMOLED screens are common in this space, but HP said that it preferred LCD because LCD panels use full red, green, and blue subpixels rather than the pentile arrangement that remains common for AMOLED.
Also at The Verge.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 20 2019, @03:24PM (4 children)
No, because no. Corporations get their money from somewhere. I'll give you one guess as to where. Sure, your money can make you money, and it seemingly doesn't come from consumers. In reality though, it all comes back to the people. I guarantee you, if 90% of the nation decided to go without phones, internet, or TV subscriptions, the Telecoms (corporations) would bleed rivers of money. Yeah, me voting with my wallet isn't going to do a whole lot, but 100,000 people unsubscribing from a service would definitely get someone's attention. Same works for companies that make products.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 20 2019, @03:44PM (3 children)
Works even better with your vote. No matter how rich you are, you still only get one.
Companies are diversified enough to withstand a cell phone boycott. The same people that make your phone, also makes you laundry detergent and soap and toothpaste and your food, but their real money is in heavy industry, like ship building and construction equipment, and of course weaponry. They make big money by trading with each other (the same way used car dealers shift their inventory) and in the financial markets. The only way we can really control them and keep the market open and free is with our vote.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 20 2019, @04:25PM (2 children)
I agree that we definitely need to vote and that has an impact. I'm just a bit skeptical with regard to the futility that you assign voting with your wallet. A phone company without customers to sign-up for phone service, won't be a phone company for very long. Even a behemoth like AT&T would either have to adapt to the customers will or do something that's not selling phone service.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 20 2019, @05:56PM (1 child)
A phone company without customers to sign-up for phone service, won't be a phone company for very long.
Its business clientele can keep them afloat. And yes, they do diversify just for those reasons, something about having more than one storage container for certain poultry products. The margins on the consumer market don't come close to the markups with industry clients. It is there also that the lying, cheating, stealing make the really big bucks, outside of public view. They sell us the trinkets so people don't riot, and to keep them voting for their puppets.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 21 2019, @01:24PM
They can be selectively targeted as well.