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An iPhone-Powered VR Headset Promises Positional Tracking Without a Tether

An iPhone-Powered VR Headset Promises Positional Tracking Without a Tether

by The Daily Eye Team December 23 2016, 4:15 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 34 secs

The widely beloved iPhone has so far missed the main currents of smartphone-based virtual reality, thus playing second fiddle to the likes of Samsung's Gear VR headset or Google's Daydream. But with the newly released iPhone-only Bridge headset from Occipital, it's now the focal device in one of those most promising headsets we've seen to date. The overall concept is familiar enough: You take an iPhone 6, 6s, or 7 and slip it into a slot on the front of the headset and then strap the device on your head. (Sorry, the "Plus" size versions of these aren't compatible.) But it's Occipital's Structure Sensor that makes the Bridge unique.

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