{"id":188362,"date":"2016-11-21T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=188362"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:36:59","slug":"microsoft-details-minimum-pc-specs-for-windows-10-vr-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/188362-microsoft-details-minimum-pc-specs-for-windows-10-vr-headsets.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft details minimum PC specs for Windows 10 VR headsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has revealed the minimum PC requirements for its\u00a0VR headsets on Windows Holographic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/184708-cheap-microsoft-virtual-reality-headsets-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft announced<\/strong><\/a> in October that it had partnered with hardware manufacturers to ship virtual reality headsets from early 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The headsets will be made by companies such as\u00a0HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer, and will start from $299.<\/p>\n<p>The headsets will start shipping with the Windows 10 Creators Update between March and May.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/11\/21\/13697268\/microsoft-windows-10-vr-headsets-minimum-specs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a>, the minimum PC requirements for the VR headsets are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4GB of RAM.<\/li>\n<li>USB 3.0 port.<\/li>\n<li>A graphics card with DirectX 12 support.<\/li>\n<li>4 CPU cores, including dual-core processors with hyperthreading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/186549-microsoft-linkedin-deal-gets-approved-in-south-africa.html\">Microsoft-LinkedIn deal gets approved in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has revealed the minimum PC requirements for its VR headsets on Windows Holographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,123,39882],"class_list":["post-188362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188366,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188362\/revisions\/188366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}