The reference design of the company, which we had always seen together with Vive, is in the CES with the Oculus viewer.
DisplayLink, a company that develops connectivity hardware and software, is present at the CES showing its reference design (DisplayLink XR) to free virtual reality viewers from cables, and in this case they have applied it to the viewer Oculus Rift, as published by RoadToVR. The wireless adapter, which is the same one we’ve seen with Vive in previous events, uses the same technology as Vive Wireless, i.e. DisplayLink compression software and Intel WiGig hardware. Unlike the official Vive accessory, which uses an external battery that we put in a pocket or belt, here said piece goes inside the accessory that the user is placed on the head, which must add more weight.
DisplayLink XR reference design applied to Rift (photo by RoadToVR).
Even after having taken their solution to Vive Wireless, they have continued to push their reference design so that other manufacturers decide to take it to more devices, since DisplayLink offers everything necessary for the construction of the wireless adapter based on the 60 GHz band.
Currently, the Oculus viewer already has the TPCast solution, which has been on the market for more than a year.
