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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by bathtub365 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @10:09AM (#23592105)
I suspect that's one of the reasons Valve put a Bluetooth receiver inside the original Vive headset.
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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by m-ee on Sunday June 21, 2020 @03:04PM (#23594447)
They also didn't use it to connect to the controllers. They used two nRF24L01 transceivers which use Nordic's proprietary shockburst protocol. Easier to set up and better latency.
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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by taneq on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:45PM (#23596775)
Yeah, the second-gen[1] Samsung Odyssey+ headset likewise has a built-in dedicated receiver in the headset and it's a significant improvement over the first gen. (I like the first gen better in practically every other way though.)

[1] There's much debate about what 'first gen', 'second gen' actually mean in terms of VR, I just mean it's Samsung's second WMR model after the Odyssey HMD.

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