Nvidia, AMD tease secretive new hardware at VR event

From PC World: If secretive new hardware from the big dogs in PC graphics gets your mouth watering, the VRLA virtual reality event in Los Angeles was the place to be this weekend. Both Nvidia and AMD were at the event, showing off unreleased VR-related gear to attendees.

The most surprising appearance came from Nvidia, which whipped out a more refined prototype of the Light Field Display prototype headset that was first revealed at Siggraph 2015 in August with an almost View Master-esque design. The version revealed at VRLA looks much more appealing.

Sadly, that single tweet from the GeForce account is the only publicly available information about the new Light Field Display prototype. When pinged for comment this weekend, Nvidia representative Bryan Del Rizzo would only say the following:

“What we showed at VRLA is a research prototype built in collaboration with Stanford University to explore how future lightfield technologies can improve the VR experience. Nvidia regularly conducts research on future technologies to help the industry find solutions to tough visual computing challenges. The prototype was first shown at Siggraph 2015, and based on interest from the industry, we showed it again at VRLA.

We aren’t disclosing any additional information at this time.”

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