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According to foreign media reports, in the next few years, millions of users will buy virtual reality helmets, which are VR devices, to play virtual reality games and watch 3D content, so such huge sales will attract many Chip makers are vying for this market, which means that there will be a virtual reality chip war.
This year's GDC2016 Game Developers Conference was held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. In addition to conventional game products and technologies, VR Virtual Reality and AI Artificial Intelligence became the two most recently introduced topics at this conference.
Some of the virtual reality helmets released this week at GDC2016 can be called full-featured computers, while others are similar to the Oculus Rift and need to be used with PCs with powerful graphics cards. Therefore, virtual reality devices designed for games and 3D content have also become display platforms for chip manufacturers such as AMD and Qualcomm.
Virtual reality helmets will also set off a battle for chip makers in the field of virtual reality. For virtual reality chips, they have their own unique characteristics: more emphasis on graphics processors (referred to as GPUs, so GPUs have very good rendering of 4K and 3D content). Important role.)
The Sulon Q Virtual/Augmented Reality Helmet released this week has a built-in full computer with an AMD chip codenamed Carrizo. Sulon Q is similar to Microsoft's HoloLens holographic glasses, allowing users to interact with 3D objects. It is also equipped with an OLED display with a resolution of 2560&TImes; 1440 pixels, and a GPU that can run high-end large games. However, due to the forced placement of components on the PC side of the computer, the Sulon Q faced the problem of whether it was overheated and comfortable to wear.
The Carrizo chip is built into the lightweight Radeon GPU, so desktops with Radeon GPUs can support the Oculus Rift. However, AMD believes that virtual reality helmets can only provide extremely realistic images and high frame rates with their own powerful GPUs, otherwise users may feel uncomfortable.
In contrast, Microsoft's HoloLens holographic glasses are equipped with an Intel processor code-named Cherry Trail, which is said to work on tablets. The image processing power of the Cherry Trail processor is actually far less powerful than Carrizo, but it can help HoloLens holographic glasses extend battery life. So HoloLens holographic glasses focus on real life and virtual worlds, not high-end games.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip is also used in the virtual reality helmet. Goer Acoustics is one of the first manufacturers to adopt the Snapdragon 820 chip in the virtual reality helmet. It is understood that the Snapdragon 820 can render 4K video and 360-degree interactive video.
Tim Leland, vice president of product management at Qualcomm, also publicly stated that for the later generation of this year, manufacturers of related virtual reality helmets will announce several virtual reality devices equipped with the Snapdragon 820 processor.
Market research firm Insight 64 Principal Analyst Nathan Brookwood is currently developing virtual helmets and chips at the market. Most virtual reality helmet chips are based on mobile device chips or PC chips. developing. If the sales of virtual reality devices can reach tens of millions in the future, companies such as Intel, AMD and Qualcomm may develop specialized chips for virtual reality devices. This is because the development cost of the chip is very high, and it is economically meaningful to develop a related chip only when the sales volume reaches a certain scale.
The rise of virtual reality has increased the importance of visual computer technology and image processors. In addition, market research firm Gartner predicted the virtual reality market. They expect that the sales of virtual reality helmets will increase from 140,000 this year to 1.4 million this year. It is likely to grow further to 6.3 million in 2017, so it is likely that Set off a virtual reality chip war.
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