The development of Google's Oculus counter-VR headset is stalled, shift to development of "AR compliant VR headset" or "Mobile VR"?



Google announced in June 2016Google I / O 2016soVR platform "Daydream"Announced that it is developing an opponent of a high-end VR headset such as Oculus Rift, but it was reported that the development project of the high-end VR headset has been torn down.

Google had an Oculus competitor in the works - but it nixed the project - Recode
http://www.recode.net/2016/7/15/12201032/google-virtual-reality-oculus-headset


Google is still working on a standalone headset
https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/16/google-mixed-virtual-reality-headset/


Google is a "VR platform" that enables a superb VR experienceDaydream"We have developed a high-end VR headset" Daydream-Ready ", and announced that Android N will be equipped with" VR mode "which will operate these VR functions. It was scheduled to be a competitor of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but he said that he got the information that this development project has been closed from a source source, Recode, a news site.


Meanwhile, it is said that Google did not completely give up VR development, but shifted the resources allocated to Daydream to the mobile VR system development project. According to another source, Google's independent "X(Google X) "is starting a development project of VR system which operates on OS different from Android scale of 50 people.

According to information Engadget got from anonymous sources, Google is said to be developing a high-end VR headset different from Daydream-Ready. Unlike Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, this is a stand-alone VR headset that works without a smartphone or PC. Moreover, it seems that there is a possibility that it becomes a headset with AR function as well as VR. Google's standalone VR headsetThe Wall Street Journal reported in FebruarySometimes. Various information is complicated, and it is expected that official announcement from Google will be unknown where the main VR project will be.

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