{"id":95061,"date":"2016-06-13T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95061"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:20:23","slug":"razer-unveils-new-virtual-reality-headset-the-hdk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/95061-razer-unveils-new-virtual-reality-headset-the-hdk-2","title":{"rendered":"Razer unveils new virtual reality headset: The HDK 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Razer has\u00a0announced a Virtual Reality headset, the Hacker Development Kit 2, reports Polygon<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The device plans to compete directly with both Facebook’s Oculus and HTC’s Vive.<\/p>\n

“The HDK [Hacker Development Kit] 2 is equipped with custom designed lenses and an OLED dual-display for a total resolution of 2160 by 1200,” the press release stated.<\/p>\n

“It also includes IQE (Image Quality Enhancer) technology for a reduced screen door effect. Capable of displaying VR experiences at 90 frames-per-second, the HDK 2 hardware specifications are comparable to the best virtual reality headsets available now.”<\/p>\n

The HDK will play games both on Steam and through Razer’s OSVR platform.<\/p>\n

The headset will launch worldwide in July for $399 (R6,000)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n

More gaming news<\/h3>\n

Here are the drop tables for Overwatch\u2019s loot box items<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The biggest videogame trailers of 2016 so far<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Behind the biggest secret battle in tech right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Razer have announced a Virtual Reality headset, the HDK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":95071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,7],"tags":[19449,5722,13746,1925,17630,6477],"class_list":["post-95061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-hardware","tag-hdk","tag-headset","tag-oculus","tag-razer","tag-vive","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95075,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95061\/revisions\/95075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}