Does anything else matter when the price is 199$? That's just shocking for so little hardware. Even 99 would be way too much. Some basic sensors , BT and GPS , a way cheap MCU and little memory plus 4.5 square cm of black and white screen. Hard to say if it costs just 20$ to make but it might....
A few more details have been announced on the Vive, including that it will be using a pair of 1200x1080 panels (1 per eye) running at 90Hz. This is very similar to Valve's 'The Room' prototype headset, which used a pair of 1920x1080 panels running at 90Hz using partial refreshing. It looks like HTC took the same design, and physically removed the power portion of each panel (or rather, the panels were fabbed without the unused portion), and added as yet poorly described tracking system. So far, all that has been announced in terms of concrete specs on the tracking system is that it involves 'lasers', and requires a pair of 'base stations'. Whether it is outside-in or inside-out, remains to be seen. The released image of the headset show a vertically separated pair of cameras, but also what look like (but may not be) emissive markers around the body of the headset.
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jjj - Sunday, March 1, 2015 - link
Does anything else matter when the price is 199$? That's just shocking for so little hardware. Even 99 would be way too much. Some basic sensors , BT and GPS , a way cheap MCU and little memory plus 4.5 square cm of black and white screen. Hard to say if it costs just 20$ to make but it might....edzieba - Sunday, March 1, 2015 - link
A few more details have been announced on the Vive, including that it will be using a pair of 1200x1080 panels (1 per eye) running at 90Hz. This is very similar to Valve's 'The Room' prototype headset, which used a pair of 1920x1080 panels running at 90Hz using partial refreshing. It looks like HTC took the same design, and physically removed the power portion of each panel (or rather, the panels were fabbed without the unused portion), and added as yet poorly described tracking system. So far, all that has been announced in terms of concrete specs on the tracking system is that it involves 'lasers', and requires a pair of 'base stations'. Whether it is outside-in or inside-out, remains to be seen. The released image of the headset show a vertically separated pair of cameras, but also what look like (but may not be) emissive markers around the body of the headset.overzealot - Monday, March 2, 2015 - link
8MB of SRAM?That would be a pretty hefty chunk of the BOM.
Seems unlikely.