I recently picked up an Alienware 15 jacked up with an NVidea 980M Graphics card. I initially thought this could provide a backpack graphics use for our VR experiences. Maybe it can. However, Neither the Vive nor Occulus support the 980M. Ultimately we are on our own. The laptop maybe good for a proof of concept. However more robust long term solutions must be sought out.
Maybe a solution will fit with MSI. They recently announced a Backpack PC with enough HP to run a GTX 980. MSI COMPUTEX Announcement. Regretfully almost nothing is known about this product. Certainly a solution like this probably wont be available by Fall. Who knows. It may just go faster than we expect 🙂
Here is an Update Article: MSI Backpack at Computex and Tech Radar’s coverage of MSI’s Backpack
Maybe another solution can come from HP. Almost at the same time as MSI, HPI is offering the HP Omen X Backpack PC and this article from The Verge – More on HP Omen X . Even less information is known about this solution and it is mostly just in the concept stage.
Last but not least here is an entry from Zortac with their Zortac Mobile VR. This solution is by a minor player and may still be looking for funding. We’ll be listening guys!
Here is an article showing how the Zortac unit displayed at the convention.
AT E3, It seems like Alienware is getting in to the party as well, Alienware Teases its backback unit.
One thing for sure. Seeing all of these articles in the same day give inspiration that bigger things are coming and this is definitely the signal for a much larger trend. We may not be able to take advantage of it immediately but if we start making plans we can put together one hell of a business plan.
