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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: 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.