Mobile VR With No Smartphone? Qualcomm Making The Move With Snapdragon VR820 Chip

[kcarbotte]

Qualcomm announced a processor designed for standalone mobile VR HMDs and a reference design for manufacturers to model their products around. The Snapdragon VR820 is a derivative of the popular Snapdragon 820 smart-device processor optimized for VR.

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[jaber2]

All that is left is to get rid of the bulky HMD

 

[bit_user]

Pass.

They say things like:

The Snapdragon VR820 includes a Qualcomm Adreno 530 GPU capable of handling stereoscopic 3D to a 70Hz panel delivering 1440x1440 pixel per eye.

As if it'll be PC-quality. But it won't. If I were in the market for something like this, I'd wait for the next gen, which will surely feature HBM2.

 

[computerguy72]

"3D 70Hz panel Delivering 1440x1440 pixels per eye." Yeah - of stick figure line art and simple unshaded polygons. It's neat they are working on it but for a good quality experience the HMD needs to be driven from a PC for quite some time.