Intel's new Project Alloy is a wireless VR headset for 'mixed reality'

Today, Intel announced a new virtual reality reference design it's calling Project Alloy, a cordless system the company says contains everything you need to have a VR experience without extraneous components. That means the headset contains the computational and graphics power neccesary to create the virtual images, as well as cameras and sensors powered by Intel's Real Sense motion tracking tech. CEO Brian Krzanich says the device is capable of mixed reality, which blends images from the real world like handheld objects into virtual environments.

In a demo onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, a Project Alloy wearer was able to use a dollar bill in his physical hand as a lathe to shave down a virtual block of gold in a...

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Intel's new Project Alloy is a wireless VR headset for 'mixed reality'
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