{"id":283970,"date":"2018-11-09T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=283970"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T07:25:50","slug":"shadow-vr-the-headset-taking-on-oculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/283970-shadow-vr-the-headset-taking-on-oculus.html","title":{"rendered":"Shadow VR &#8211; the headset taking on Oculus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese company Shadow Creator <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/shadow-vr-vive-wave-6dof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> its new standalone VR headset\u00a0at HTC&#8217;s Vive event yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Shadow VR is set to become the first standalone VR headset available to consumers &#8211; Oculus Quest is only set to release theirs in 6 months time.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting a 1,280 x 1,440 display, the Shadow VR doesn&#8217;t quite match up to the 1,600 x 1,440 display of the upcoming Oculus Quest, while it&#8217;s LCD screen is also inferior to the Quest&#8217;s OLED display.<\/p>\n<p>However, it uses use the same Snapdragon 835 chip that is found in the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus.<\/p>\n<p>It reportedly uses 6DoF controllers that were developed by Shadow Creator &#8211; the Vive Focus will use different 6DoF controllers.<\/p>\n<p>It will be priced at $399, which is the same price tag the Oculus Quest will have when it releases next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Shadow VR device will release on 11 November 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/279475-oculus-rolls-out-rift-core-2-0-update.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oculus rolls out Rift Core 2.0 update<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese company Shadow Creator announced its new standalone VR headset\u00a0at HTC&#8217;s Vive event yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":283976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[54107,55354,47282,46567],"class_list":["post-283970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-oculus-quest","tag-shadow-creator","tag-vive-focus","tag-vr-headsets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283970"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283994,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283970\/revisions\/283994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}