HP also wants to be a protagonist in the Mixed Reality market and already offers its VR glasses in reserve

October 17 is the date set to find out the (few) secrets hidden in the Fall Creators Update, the last major update for Windows 10 in the remainder of year Then Redstone 4 will come, which is already beginning to prepare its way but that is another story.

What happens is that Fall Creators Update (Redstone 3) will not be the exclusive protagonist of the 17th and it is that in parallel We will see how the new devices are presented to make use of Augmented Reality together with Windows 10.Devices that have been used to bring the Windows Mixed Reality project to life that will arrive signed by manufacturers such as Samsung, Lenovo or, for that matter, HP.

And it is that the American firm did not want to wait for October 17 and in advance it has launched its new sunglasses Mixed reality. Under the name of HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset we can reserve them on the Amazon website in the United Kingdom at a price close to 379 pounds (in exchange for 417 euros) so that they can be served to us on the same day, October 17.

Maybe at HP they want to contrast in this way the effect of the presentation of the Samsung HMD Odyssey that we saw yesterday and try to be the ones that conquer to the _early adopter_ who may be thinking of getting one.

In terms of specifications, the HP model sports two screens with a resolution of 1440 x 1440 pixels on each one.In the samea refresh rate is used that can reach 90 Hz (as in the Samsung HMD Odyssey) in case of using HDMI 2.0 and 60 Hz if we opted for HDMI 1.4. and offer a field of vision of 95 degrees (110 degrees in Samsung). They integrate two front cameras and sell them together with the necessary movement controls.

It seems that the coming year is going to be powerful in the field of Augmented Reality (ARKit, Virtual Reality glasses, Google AR… with the main firms betting for a new market niche in which they want to earn an important part of the pie

Source | OneWindows In Xataka Windows | Samsung bets on Windows 10 to dethrone Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with its new Virtual Reality headset