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Announcing the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102
ASUS today announced the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102. Its unique and innovative design, featuring a beautiful 3D pattern and a comfy weight-balanced construction with premium antibacterial cushioned materials, means it’s not only stylish but also supremely cool and comfortable for extended use.
Unlike other headsets, the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 doesn’t need any external sensors, making initial setup incredibly easy — users will be ready to play in less than 10 minutes. What’s more, the headset supports over 20,000 Windows apps and more than 2,000 Steam® VR titles, so users can watch immersive 360° videos, play games like never before or get on with important work or school projects. And importantly, the headset is also compatible with a wide range of affordable PCs. The ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 is the revolutionary, easy-to-use and affordable way for users to explore their imaginations.
Unique and Futuristic Design, Featuring a Beautiful 3D Pattern
The beautiful and futuristic design of the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 is inspired by the Windows Mixed Reality experience, which combines the thrill of virtual reality (VR) with a phenomenal sense of presence, delivering experiences that are truly exhilarating. ASUS designers used this inspiration and technology normally used to create digital architecture to produce a pattern of hundreds of 3D polygons, resulting in a unique, modern and revolutionary new style. The headset is then finished in a tone-on-tone effect, keeping users stylish whatever world they’re exploring.
Convenient Design with a Flippable Hinge
The ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 has a friendly and convenient design, allowing users to switch between the virtual and real worlds in seconds. Users can simply lift the visor for a temporary reality check, and flip it back down to instantly immerse themselves in the virtual world again.
Comfortable and Ultralight Balanced-Crown Design
The comfortable weight-balanced construction of the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 allows extended periods of exploring without fatigue. It's ultralight — weighing less than 400g — and the special balanced-crown design puts the majority of the weight on the forehead and back of the skull, where it’s better supported. This relives the pressure on the nose and face, meaning users won’t suffer from ‘VR face’.
Premium Soft Materials for Users’ Comfort
The ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 is constructed from premium soft materials, specially chosen for users’ comfort. These quick-drying, antibacterial materials help keep users cool and collected, so they can fully relax and enjoy the mixed-reality experience.
Quick and Simple 10-minute Setup
Unlike competitors’ products, no external sensors are needed. Instead, two built-in front-facing tracking cameras with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) position tracking, and 32 LED lights on each controller allow the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 to map a user’s environment, and track their movements and controllers seamlessly.
The headset contains multiple sensors — gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer — that determine the user’s orientation, and thanks to its phenomenal inside-out tracking design, virtual and physical worlds will be perfectly synced, and free of latency or distortion.
What’s more, as no external sensors are needed, initial setup takes less than 10 minutes, and after initial setup users can simply plug in and play. It also means users aren’t confined to their desk, chair or even room. They can enjoy an exhilarating mixed-reality experience wherever their laptop goes.
Vivid and Immersive 3K Visuals
The ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 delivers crystal-clear visuals, thanks to a 3K (2880 x 1440) resolution display and up to a 90Hz refresh rate. The incredible resolution lets users enjoy an incredibly interactive and truly immersive mixed-reality experience.
Windows Mixed Reality App Support
As users will discover when they start their adventures in the Cliff House — the virtual portal to all mixed-reality experiences — the ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 is capable of more than just virtual reality. From Cliff House, users can discover mixed-reality apps such as HoloTour that allow them to explore breathtaking places like the mysterious Machu Picchu high in the Andes, or experience the beauty of Rome from a balloon.
Over 20,000 Windows apps and more than 2,000 Steam® VR titles are available, allowing users to immerse themselves in incredible content, watch 360° videos or movies in vivid, captivating detail, experience games such as Minecraft® or Superhot VR like never before, or get productive and complete their important work or school projects.
The ASUS Windows Mixed Reality Headset HC102 is immediately available at a MSRP of $429 from the ASUS Store and other leading retailers.
SPECIFICATIONS
| Lens HFoV | 95° (one eye), 105° (two eyes), fresnel-aspherical lens | ||
| Refresh Rate | 90Hz | ||
| Display | 1440 x 1440 resolution per eye (2880 x 1440 in total) | ||
| Focal Distance | 1.3m | ||
| IPD Accommodation | Adjustable by SW (63mm+/- 8mm) | ||
| Eye-to-lens Distance | 13mm | ||
| Tracking Cameras | B+W & VGA | ||
| Sensors | Gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, P-sensor | ||
| Tracking Architecture | 6DoF | ||
| Audio Formats | 3.5mm audio jack | ||
| Accessories | Two 6DoF controllers | ||
| Connectivity | HDMI 2.0, USB 3.0, Bluetooth® | ||
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#5521399 Posted on: 02/20/2018 01:47 PM
^^Well i have the Oculus rift and about 9 feet X 6 feet of spare room to use it in, so i would say if you are limited in roomscale space then these types of headsets will be perfect, but if you have alot of free room then vr with external sensors for room scale would be the way to go, i personally love the rift, but i am ready now to dump those extra wires trailing around my room for my two sensors, and if i can get one of these cheap then i would grab it.
^^Well i have the Oculus rift and about 9 feet X 6 feet of spare room to use it in, so i would say if you are limited in roomscale space then these types of headsets will be perfect, but if you have alot of free room then vr with external sensors for room scale would be the way to go, i personally love the rift, but i am ready now to dump those extra wires trailing around my room for my two sensors, and if i can get one of these cheap then i would grab it.
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#5521421 Posted on: 02/20/2018 02:38 PM
One issue I know of, well not really an issue but more like you said a limitation is if you have any external controllers they have to be in the field of vision to work on Hololens.
I'm still skeptical about HMDs without external sensors. I bought a generic HMD and the limitations due to lack of external sensors are immense.
One issue I know of, well not really an issue but more like you said a limitation is if you have any external controllers they have to be in the field of vision to work on Hololens.
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#5521444 Posted on: 02/20/2018 03:32 PM
I don't know, the Acer headset I have tracks very well. For half the price of the Rift/Vive it can't be beat imo
I don't know, the Acer headset I have tracks very well. For half the price of the Rift/Vive it can't be beat imo
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#5521446 Posted on: 02/20/2018 03:55 PM
^^Yeap, and believe you me, the Rift is not 100% perfect when it comes to tracking, and even more so with roomscale because if you don't have full room coverage you are going to get tracking issues, and a third sensor will cost me £60 and that is another wire trailing around the room, so cost wise they are looking far more appealing, although let me add i love the rift, once tried you can't put that VR genie back in the bottle, some games now i canon't play back in normal screen mode now, just impossible.
How is that headset for compatibility with steamvr and oculus games, how is the compat with vr games on both these formats, good, mediocre, bad?
^^Yeap, and believe you me, the Rift is not 100% perfect when it comes to tracking, and even more so with roomscale because if you don't have full room coverage you are going to get tracking issues, and a third sensor will cost me £60 and that is another wire trailing around the room, so cost wise they are looking far more appealing, although let me add i love the rift, once tried you can't put that VR genie back in the bottle, some games now i canon't play back in normal screen mode now, just impossible.
How is that headset for compatibility with steamvr and oculus games, how is the compat with vr games on both these formats, good, mediocre, bad?
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#5521458 Posted on: 02/20/2018 04:53 PM
How is that headset for compatibility with steamvr and oculus games, how is the compat with vr games on both these formats, good, mediocre, bad?
For the most part, every game works perfectly. You have the occasional button mapping issues but they are usually fixed pretty quickly. The only game that I have encountered on a Windows headset that did not work is the Outbreak Contagion VR demo and apparently that is due to a bug in the version of UE4 they are using and will be fixed in an upcoming patch. Everything else has worked just fine.
How is that headset for compatibility with steamvr and oculus games, how is the compat with vr games on both these formats, good, mediocre, bad?
For the most part, every game works perfectly. You have the occasional button mapping issues but they are usually fixed pretty quickly. The only game that I have encountered on a Windows headset that did not work is the Outbreak Contagion VR demo and apparently that is due to a bug in the version of UE4 they are using and will be fixed in an upcoming patch. Everything else has worked just fine.
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#5521684 Posted on: 02/21/2018 02:19 PM
Just announced? I saw this last year at computex.
Just announced? I saw this last year at computex.
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#5522015 Posted on: 02/22/2018 02:53 PM
So "VR" has a new name......? Mixed reality?? See no cameras on the outside of this bad boy depicting the ability to have a mixed/augmented reality at all.
My money is on augmented reality. That's the future of all of this nonsense as of late.
Couldn't imagine walking down the street with My "visor" on and blasting aliens that are coming out of the street, or the walls of buildings. All things that are really there and mapped in real time allowing surfaces to be texturized and manipulated in real time for a truly encompassing experience....
So "VR" has a new name......? Mixed reality?? See no cameras on the outside of this bad boy depicting the ability to have a mixed/augmented reality at all.
My money is on augmented reality. That's the future of all of this nonsense as of late.
Couldn't imagine walking down the street with My "visor" on and blasting aliens that are coming out of the street, or the walls of buildings. All things that are really there and mapped in real time allowing surfaces to be texturized and manipulated in real time for a truly encompassing experience....
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I'm still skeptical about HMDs without external sensors. I bought a generic HMD and the limitations due to lack of external sensors are immense.