{"id":3656,"date":"2017-03-02T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/lgs-new-headset-is-basically-an-htc-vive-with-an-awesome-flip-up-screen\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:14:03","slug":"lgs-new-headset-is-basically-an-htc-vive-with-an-awesome-flip-up-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/lgs-new-headset-is-basically-an-htc-vive-with-an-awesome-flip-up-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"LG\u2019s new headset is basically an HTC Vive, with an awesome flip-up screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past couple of years, <\/a> HTC and Valve\u2019s virtual reality efforts \u2014 which produced the HTC Vive in 2015 \u2014 have seemed largely interchangeable. But Valve\u2019s SteamVR platform isn\u2019t limited to one manufacturer. Earlier this week, information pills<\/a> LG and Valve introduced a competing headset with many of the Vive\u2019s features \u2014 but a few serious design tweaks.<\/p>\n

Currently, LG\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s the same resolution as the Gear VR, and slightly more than the Rift or Vive,…<\/p>\n

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For the past couple of years, HTC and Valve\u2019s virtual reality efforts \u2014 which produced the HTC Vive in 2015 \u2014 have seemed largely interchangeable. But Valve\u2019s SteamVR platform isn\u2019t limited to one manufacturer. Earlier this week, information pills LG and Valve introduced a competing headset with many of the Vive\u2019s features \u2014 but a… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t