HP made an even more powerful VR backpack

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HP’s new Z VR Backpack is being marketed as a workstation PC for all kinds of businesses — theme parks, automative showrooms, real estate agencies, and anything else that might have a use for virtual reality. It’s designed to give them high-end performance so that, when customers are shown virtual reality demoes of a car or a house they might be interested in, they don’t get distracted by bad graphics and stuttering frame rates.
Two months after introducing a backpack PC for virtual reality, HP is introducing another one. But this time, it isn’t meant for gamers.

The Z VR Backpack is even more powerful than HP’s gaming backpack, the Omen X Compact Desktop. While both use Intel’s Core i7 processors (both Kaby Lake), the Z VR Backpack has an Nvidia Quadro P5200 GPU, instead of the GTX 1080 in the Omen. HP says the Quadro card it’s offering includes twice the frame buffer of the 1080. The backpack will also be configurable with up to 32GB of RAM.

HP WILL OPEN “IMMERSION CENTERS” WHERE PEOPLE CAN TRY OUT VR

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To help convince businesses of virtual reality’s use, HP is going to open 13 VR “immersion centers” where people can go to experience the hardware and the different ways it can be put to use. All 13 are supposed to be up and running by the end of September, with five launching in Europe, four in the Americas, and four in the Asia-Pacific region.

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