Nvidia Unveiling New VR Headset At GDC

A fresh report indicates that Nvidia volition exist showcasing its own VR head mounted brandish at GDC side by side week. The company will as well be hosting a talk about marrying Nvidia technologies with VR to improve the overall experience.

nvidia made to game Nosotros covered an interesting evolution two days ago which indicates that the green team is working towards unveiling a new gaming platform for the offset time at GDC. The new platform is still unknown, possibilities include an android gaming device that employs the company'southward new Tegra X1 mobile chip. Although the announcement could also entail the announcement of the company'due south new VR headset.

Nvidia Unveiling New VR Headset At GDC

According to vrfocus.com the new virtual reality caput mounted display is beingness developed by the same team that headed the development of Nvidia'due south Shield handheld gaming device a few years dorsum. The new VR device is rumored to be dubbed Titan VR. It seems everything that Nvidia's rumored to be working on these days has the word "Titan" somehow involved in its proper noun.

VRFocus has learned from multiple sources that the graphics processing unit (GPU) manufacturer will be revealing its very own kit, possibly named Titan VR. The product is existence created past the team behind Nvidia's SHIELD tablet. No other details on the device have been revealed at this time, although VR fans will call up that the visitor is hosting a GDC session titled 'VR Direct: How NVIDIA Technology Is Improving the VR Feel' on quaternary March at fourteen:00 PST. This could well be where the news is fabricated official.

We've heard that the blood-red team is working on VR too and has just recently hired more veteran VR developers. Even so according to industry sources, AMD isn't interested in creating its own VR headset and would rather work closely with Oculus instead. AMD is also hosting its own VR talk at GDC which will exist centered around low latency rendering, an essential chemical element in the virtual reality environment.

Interest from both GPU makers is of paramount importance to bulldoze virtual reality forward. Intense graphics processing is required for an adequately good user experience in VR. And as the resolutions grow always larger and the games e'er more than complex, driving a low latency gaming experience is going to require a massive amount of GPU horsepower. And this is where both Nvidia and AMD will play a major part.

VR is a very exciting engineering and with every passing twelvemonth it has been garnering more attention and a bigger following. It'south evolving speedily thanks to its close alignment with the development cycle of mobile phones. It'll take more than fourth dimension for the technology to mature both on the hardware and software fronts for it to be accessible to the average user only with the backing of giants such as Facebook it'll undoubtedly go at that place soon enough.