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The battery is on your head, with the rest of the headset. Weight is a concern of the power required, not the available compute. The bigger concern is cost.
Do you wear a counterweight with your sunglasses? No one complains about the lack of counterweight on a Bigscreen. In fact everyone seems to agree it’s the most comfortable headset ever.
The battery is in the strap anyway and the additional weight for compute is likely very negligible.
The battery is on your head, with the rest of the headset. Weight is a concern of the power required, not the available compute. The bigger concern is cost.
The battery is functioning as a counterweight and is optional.
cost, absolutely valid though.
Oh, so you can hardwire it to the PC without a battery!?
I don’t see why not, but you probably wouldn’t want to because the battery is a perfect counterweight, making it much more comfortable.
Do you wear a counterweight with your sunglasses? No one complains about the lack of counterweight on a Bigscreen. In fact everyone seems to agree it’s the most comfortable headset ever.
It doesn’t have inside-out tracking. You can’t have both.
And why not?
Inside out tracking requires an array of cameras and a processor as well as a way to cool it.