LG’s headset may be the most comfortable VR headset, and with a high resolution OLED display to boot.
Valve announced a new VR headset on Monday without much detail. Or, really, any detail. All we knew: LG was making a headset, partnering with Valve the same way HTC did with the Vive, and it was a prototype meant to “deliver a high fidelity, next generation VR experience.” No price, no hardware specs. Now we’ve gotten a chance to put the LG headset on our faces, and got a few important details from LG. The big one: higher resolution screens than either the Oculus Rift or the HTC Vive.
Here’s what LG would tell us:
3.64 inch diagonal OLED display, with a resolution of 1440×1280 per eye
110 degree FOV with lenses at 12mm from your eyes, 120mm FOV with lenses at 10mm
90Hz refresh rate
Final hardware will support IPD adjustment, but the dev kit did not
Tracking works with the Lighthouse base stations, and the touch controller design is based on the Vive controllers (with the same thumbpads)
Lenses are refractive rather than the fresnel lenses used by Rift and Vive
No word on price, and LG wouldn’t say what its headset weighs, only that it’s comparable to other headsets. We had a chance to try it on, and found the design closest to Sony’s PlayStation VR. It’s more comfortable than the HTC Vive, and definitely feels lighter, though that could be because the weight distribution is so much better.
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Source: PC Gamer