China SOC maker Rockchip just release their new SOC RK3399 today in Hong Kong Electronic Fair.
Rockchip RK3399 cpu is base on Dual ARM Cortex-A72+Quad ARM Cortex-A53 and GPU is ARM Mali-T860MP4, Compare with the old Mali-T628, the total performance improve about 45%.
Rock chip show different definition about this chip, but highlight the support for VR (virtual reality) all-in-one device. He is what they talked:
1 Rockchip RK3399 can decode 4K 360 degree Panoramic video directly, and compatible with traditional 2D/3D content.
2 Lower than 20ms latency , special optimize for VR headset. 20ms or lower latency has been approved by Gear VR or Oculus, HTC , over than that, people will feel dizzy and uncomfortable. Some users always complaint about the dizzy when they use the cardboard style VR headset, the reason is the smartphone SOC and VR headset have not been optimized for VR.
3 Screen refresh rate can reach 75Hz or higher, Now all of the flagship smartphone just can reach 60Hz screen refresh rate, some others might lower than that. Rock chip RK3399 can offer at least 75Hz screen refresh rate. The high refresh rate will give better VR experience, especially for VR games. For reference, The oculus rift and HTC Vive has 90Hz refresh rate, and Sony PS VR use 120Hz refresh rate.
4 Rockchip RK3399 can support 2K FHD screen. The high resolution screen means less blurring, in our opinion, 1080p is the minimum requirements for VR headset, 2K is much better.
5 Rockchip RK3399 already built in Anti distortion, pupillary distance algorithm, Before if you want to make a good VR headset, you should have optics specialist , technology specialist, but now, with RK3399, the factory which focus on hardware now can make their product easily, so we might saw more and more all in one VR Headset very soon with RK3399.
6 Rockchip RK3399 support left/right split screen function in hardware and software. As we all know, for all in one VR headset, split screen is an important technology, Rockchip RK3399 can suit for different screen automatically to make sure the best VR experience.
7 Rockchip RK3399 support difference game engine, including Unity. As we all know, GPU is much more important than CPU in VR headset, Rockchip RK3399 base in the powerful Mali-T860, You can read the information about Mali-T860 in ARM official site here. It offer possibility for large VR android games.
Besides the above highlight, Rockchip rk3399 also built in dual usb 3.0 type c port, support gesture recognition, built in PCI-e port. here is an poster rock chip release today:
Rockchip is the first company which release the VR SOC among those chinese chip maker. They hope the RK3399 to be a high-end all in one VR headset solution, Besides the RK3399, rock chip also show some ALL IN ONE VR headset which built in RK3228 in this year’s electronic fair.
As usual we should wait at least 3 month for all in one VR headset base on RK3399, but the VR headset base on RK3228 is around the corner.
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