Qualcomm’s new all-in-one VR headset will be cheaper than the Rift and Vive
Sep02
Getting into VR is a damn costly proposition. First, you’ve got to get a headset. The HTC Vive costs an eye-watering $799, and the Oculus isn’t much better at $599. Then you’ve got to get a computer with a meaty-enough graphics card and oodles or RAM, just to power the headset you just bought. Then, you’ve got to buy the software you intend to run on it. Which is why I’m really excited about Qualcomm’s new standalone virtual reality reference platform, called the VR820. As the name implies, this uses its widely-used Snapdragon 820 SoC to power an eyetracker, a…
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