

There are plenty of questions that go well beyond specific specs. That system, which seems to be further along in the manufacturing process, will be making an appearance at Computex in Taipei this year. The prototype’s reveal follows the announcement of the straightforwardly named MSI Backpack PC, which sports an Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GTX980 graphics card. Not really a lot to go on here, but it’s said to weigh less than 10 pounds (one would hope) while offering a pretty meh hour of battery.
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The system (which is alternatively being called the HP Omen X VR PC Pack and the decidedly more passive Omen X by HP VR PC Pack) is still pretty early days for the company.
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Why not go full Ghostbusters and stick the thing on the user’s back?įollowing the launch of a number of new Omen gaming rigs, HP showed off a VR gaming PC that quite literally straps the rig to the wearer’s back. And as such, MSI and HP have both issued similar conceptual solutions to the question of (relative) portability. Sure, plenty of computer makers have created powerful, compliant systems ready for the upcoming VR boom, but for a technology designed to offer some semblance of digital freedom, the whole thing is quite literally tethered.īut great minds, as they say, think alike. A number of companies seem to have a firm grasp on the headset bit, and while the controller aspect is certainly in flux, we’ve seen a handful of compelling solutions on that front.
