In partial fulfilment of COA Project Article

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Ahsan Masood 11720 ,

Ghufran Hassan 11432

Sulon VR

Many of the competing companies have made several advancements in Virtual Reality. Samsung,

HTC, Oculus, etc. But none of them have features like the Sulon one.

At GDC 2016, Sluon revealed a new HMD, the Sulon Q, which is designed for virtual reality,

augmented reality, and spatially aware computing.

As I found on the internet the Sulon Q HMD is a fully tether-free HMD with its own computational

system. The headset features an AMD FX-8800P processor and R7 Radeon graphics with four

compute cores and eight GPU cores, similar to a game consoles, like PlasyStation. Sulon said the

headset includes a 2560x1440p OLED display and features a 110-degree viewing angle, offering

better field of view in RPG based games. The headset also includes AstoundSound Technology

for spatial audio processing, and a 3.5mm audio jack to plug in headphones; no necessity for

surround sound. The Sulon Q comes with a pair of “spatially-optimized” earbuds; which means a

better surround system.

The Sulon Q headset is capable of virtual reality gaming and applications. Now, like the project

Microsoft is working on, like the Xbox Kinect, it’s also capable of augmented reality and gesture

recognition thanks to the two cameras found on the front of the HMD. Further, the headset includes

a Spatial Processing Unit that maps the environment in real time, using an array of cameras on the

headset, which provides headset tracking without external devices.

Other infamous competing VR/AR have features far less than Sulon, albeit the price for Vive is

more than the revealed price for Sulon. Sulon is almost equal to in price with Rift.

The following is snapshot taken from Sulon’s own web portal.

Now, another thing that’s very interest is that Sulon Q HMD will come equipped with Windows

10 and will be able to display holographic applications in transparent or opaque windows, like in

the movies. The device will let you use hand gestures tracked by the front-facing cameras, but you

can also use a keyboard and mouse, which will ship with the headset.

Sulon hasn’t revealed an exact shipping date for the Sulon Q headset, but the company plans to

launch in late spring. When we talked to Sulon last year, its plan was the release a developer kit

for $499. The price for the Sulon Q remains to be seen.

Vive is 800$, Rift for 600$ and OSVR for 300$.