LG’s new headset is basically an HTC Vive, with an awesome flip-up screen
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For the past couple of years, HTC and Valve’s virtual reality efforts — which produced the HTC Vive in 2015 — have seemed largely interchangeable. But Valve’s SteamVR platform isn’t limited to one manufacturer. Earlier this week, information pills LG and Valve introduced a competing headset with many of the Vive’s features — but a few serious design tweaks.
Currently, LG’s headset is a development kit, which the company says will be going out to developers in the next few weeks. This means that its design isn’t final, although it seems far from a rough first effort. The headset uses a single 3.64-inch LG screen with 2560 x 1440 resolution, or 1280 x 1440 pixels per eye. That’s the same resolution as the Gear VR, and slightly more than the Rift or Vive,…
