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Using a smartphone as VR headset for PC gaming
2016-03-21 08:25:19 Post No. 53602936
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Using a smartphone as VR headset for PC gaming
Anonymous
2016-03-21 08:25:19
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>products like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR allow you to turn your phone into a VR headset
>smartphones like the LG G5 and Nexus 5X/6P support have USB 3.1 with 10Gb/s transfer speeds (don't quote me on that, it might only be USB 3.0)
>USB 3.1 should have the bandwidth necessary to transfer a 1440p 60Hz (or 1080p 120Hz) digital video signal to be displayed on a phone
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't smartphones have the necessary hardware to be used as a VR headset for PC gaming? This would eliminate the need to drop $600-800 on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive when one can use the smartphone they already have (provided it has USB 3.1) as a VR headset. Perhaps the phone's camera could be used to handle head tracking by analyzing and processing the camera feed to determine it's change in position. The phone is it's own computer so it could definitely ease some of the computational load off of the host computer as needed. Thoughts?
