Alcatel has launched a new all-in-one virtual reality device, called Vision, which the company said will be available at an affordable price.
“It can be worn comfortably for 2-3 hours, with or without glasses, allowing plenty of time for a child to take a VR tour of a museum or for watching a movie,” said Alcatel.
The Alcatel Vision sports an eight-core CPU, 3GB of memory, 32GB of storage, Bluetooth, and LTE connectivity.
The VR device also has an accelerometer, gyro, and proximity sensor built in.
Alcatel partnered with Jaunt VR, Magic Interactive Entertainment, and Fraunhofer for the device, which will come with pre-loaded content.
While Alcatel did not reveal the recommended retail price, Engadget reported it is expected to cost between $500-$600.
This article was originally published on MyBroadband.
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Personally I believe any maker of new phone based HMDs should be focusing on just using it as a wireless connected screen. Connecting to the PC and supporting the type of games the Oculus and Vive currently support (no processing on the phone, except to display the visuals streamed from the PC)
Such an HMD would have to support okay-ish head tracking to make it viable.
That’s what I would be doing anyway. Disruptive phone screen based medium range HMD tech. There’s way too much competition in the regular phone based HMD market right now.
And with refinement such a scheme could even take on players in the market that have already been going for a while – Such as OSVR.
HDM and head tracking + phone + wireless connectivity to PC = WIN
Not that this is phone based – just wanted to put that out there.