Wireless VR

[JDHD]

I wonder if it is possible to make a completely wireless VR experience using the vive and the nvidia shield along with some sort of battery strapped to one's self. If this suggestion is possible i would love to see it on LTT. Please let me know what you think.

 

Thanks

JDHD

[ShadowCaptain]

Nope not possible you need to have all the vive hardware and sensors connected to a windows PC in order for them to function

 

Better off getting a laptop and putting it all in there or something but you still need the sensors connected somehow

[bgibbz]

ltt actually demoed something similar. i believe it was some sort of backpack that you could attach your laptop to and game stream from desktop to it. Still, the major bottleneck would be power. Batteries are heavy, and in order to power a computer at VR load, well, it wouldn't be easy to do with a battery. Odds are you would need some massive 100+ lb battery in order to even give yourself a short amount of use time. As far as your idea with the Shield, as far as i know, there is many connectors that need to be connected directly to the compute, and also the shield would add latency. In order for vr to work it needs to be very low latency and input lag. 

[potatoproduction]

Your idea wouldn't work since low latency is necessary without it you will experience all kinds of motion sicknes and you won't feel immersed at all.

one of the reasons the vive is (arguably) the best vr experiences out there is because of the almost zero latency with the screen, the game,the controllers ,etc

[Praesi]

Not to connect the Display to the PC sounds realy smart. ?

[HelplmChoking]

I mean I'm sure you could, but latency is a big issue with VR and while input lag doesn't bother me, it makes me feel very uncomfortable in VR.