Yet Another VR Headset

Starbreeze, the studio behind Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The Darkness, Payday 2 and Brothers, is also entering the VR market. Their headset called StarVR is offering a far wider field of view than the competition (210° versus around 100°), paired with a higher resolution.

They also announced VR support for their upcoming The Walking Dead game, although it is yet unknown if this is an exclusive feature for StarVR.
Before you get hyped for yet another VR headset, think about the following though.

The Oculus Rift needs a GTX 970 as minimum spec, and there is a reason for that: VR is highly intensive when it comes to the needed rendering power. You can’t expect a PC that runs Skyrim in 1920x1080/60fps with on a single monitor to run Skyrim VR in 2160x1200 split across 2 displays at a minimum of 90fps (resolution of the Oculus and 90fps is a minimum requirement to keep you from getting motion sickness). This step up in resolution and the 2 different rendering viewpoints needed for the VR experience, already has a huge impact in performance. The StarVR has a resolution of 2560x1440, and also more than doubles the FOV of the Oculus, which means that way more objects get rendered at the same time.

In short: expect to own 2x 980ti’s for anything that’s more demanding than Minecraft.

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