A Valve Deckard proof of idea mannequin had 2K LCD panels and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, although this doesn’t suggest the delivery Deckard will.
Over the previous 4 years Valve has repeatedly confirmed that it is engaged on a brand new headset, strongly hinting that it’s going to have a give attention to wi-fi streaming out of your PC, and a job itemizing talked about it having inside-out monitoring, digicam passthrough, atmosphere understanding, eye monitoring, and hand monitoring. On this time, many references to a Valve headset known as “Deckard” have been discovered within the code of SteamVR by VR fanatic Brad Lynch’s Discord datamining group.
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Now, Lynch’s datamining group has found a reference to seven pre-production fashions of Deckard in SteamVR code: POC-A, POC-C, Mini-D, POC-E, POC-F, EV1, and EV2. POC stands for proof of idea, EV stands for engineering validation, and it is unclear what Mini-D means.
Deckard POC-A and POC-C had been first found within the SteamVR code virtually 4 years in the past, Mini-D three years in the past, and EV2 a number of weeks in the past, charting Valve’s development from early prototypes to near-final {hardware}. However what’s extra notable is that Lynch’s crew has additionally found code revealing the particular show panels, monitoring cameras, and Qualcomm chipset that had been utilized in Deckard POC-F.
Deckard PoC-F used a Qualcomm SM8650 SoC for improvement. Also called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 which has a GPU one technology newer than GPU Within the XR2 Gen 2
It used 2.8” lpm026m648c LCD panels from JDI. 2160×2160 @ 120hz
It additionally had two eye monitoring cameras, and 4 SLAM cameras https://t.co/kJtBqLqF2W pic.twitter.com/Lr0949JZLk
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Deckard POC-F used two 2160×2160 LCD panels with 120Hz refresh charge, had 4 world-facing monitoring cameras, two inner eye monitoring cameras, and was powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the findings reveal.
That decision is roughly equal to Meta Quest 3’s 2064×2208, and considerably decrease than Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s 3660×3200, whereas additionally missing the distinction and richness of Imaginative and prescient Professional’s micro-OLED.
As for the monitoring cameras, this might be the same setup to PlayStation VR2 or Quest Professional. The findings come 4 months after 3D fashions of Deckard’s “Roy” controllers had been found in SteamVR recordsdata, with a design that strongly suggests they’re tracked by the headset’s cameras in the identical approach as Quest 3’s Contact Plus controllers.
Arguably extra curiously, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset has a more moderen GPU than the XR2 Gen 2 utilized in Quest 3, Quest 3S, and Pico 4 Extremely, with 25% sooner efficiency and 25% improved effectivity. Whereas Deckard will possible give attention to leveraging your gaming PC for the best constancy VR expertise, the usage of this extra superior GPU may additionally let it render barely improved graphics utterly standalone.
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Nevertheless, we should as soon as once more stress {that a} proof of idea mannequin having these specs doesn’t in any approach imply that the delivery Deckard will too. Deckard POC-F may very well be years previous by now, and Deckard EV2 may very well be a basically completely different system.
Talking of the delivery Deckard, a latest rumor from a Valve leaker with a stable monitor file suggests it may arrive later this 12 months for $1200, and embody first-party “video games or demos”.
We’ll preserve a detailed eye on the Valve datamining and leaking group, and the corporate itself, within the coming weeks and months for any additional hints of the options and specs of what could be the most extremely anticipated headset within the business.
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