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Tag: Alienware

  • Zero Latency In Orlando

    Just when I thought I was going to write off Zero Latency as an iMyth competitor, it seems they have brought the battle to the iMyth on their own home town of Orlando. Zero Latency is the outfit from Melbourne Australia who are creating ware-house scale Zombie shootem-ups. They evidently have been going like gang-busters in Australia, China and Japan. Now they plan to open a facility in Orlando.

    I can’t say I blame them since this is where we were planning. Oh well, If you like running around and shooting zombies. This will be the place to be! You have to give them credit. After a conversation with Sensics’ Yuval Boger, Zero Latency has created a home brewed solution for warehouse scaled tracking and it’s pretty good! I look forward giving this Zero Latency experience a try. It will be housed, no doubt some where near iDrive at the Main Event Entertainment facility.

    The Zero Latency system will be based on the OSVR HDK 2.0 platform with Alienware PC backpacks. This also means they will not be using top of the line NVidea VR cards. As of this writing I am not aware of a PC Backpack sporting an nVidea 1080 card as of yet. iMyth will be improving their experience by implementing Wireless HTC Vive using Steam Tracking. While we may not have warehouse scale tracking as of yet, this will sure to be coming. Otherwise, we’ll just have to implement our technology!

    As mentioned before, Zero Latency has done a great job capturing the Zombie market. iMyth has always and will continually be focused on generating the highest quality, physically immersive experiences which are collaborative and reconfigurable. iMyth may no longer be the only VR experience in town. However, it will always have the best, high quality experiences.

  • Backpack VR Machines

    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.