The ZSpace laptop is an unassuming-looking product that is one of its kind. it is the first windows laptop to combine virtual reality and augmented reality to create a tense experience from the screen. zSpace wishes to target education and business spaces with a surprisingly affordable rate of $1,500. Using zSpace laptops is a smooth and intuitive experience.
HP introduced something similar a few years ago, with the Zvr Virtual Reality Display, housed in a 23.6-inch setup. The technology used here is pretty simple. It uses a proprietary 3D display, head tracking sensor, 3D glasses, and large stylus. Just now, this technology is housed in a 15.4 x 10.8 x 1.2-inch laptop that weighs about 9 pounds.
It’s a bit bulky, but it’s much more portable than the 23-inch display. The top tracking cameras are located in the upper corners of the laptop with another pair in the center. The top-mounted cameras project outwards and downwards, an ideal location for monitoring glasses.
Although the glasses use a passive form of VR and are essential for the experience, the dots are the secret sauce. Acting like mini mocap trackers, they are what head tracking sensors in a laptop are using to track your head position. Once everything is synchronized, the technology works seamlessly, creating clear, interactive 3D images that are more like mixed reality than virtual reality. Running all these augmented reality fine needs quite a lot of power.
The zSpace Notebook will feature an AMD APU A9-9420 CPU with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. In terms of battery life, ZStudio did not give an estimate, but we can safely guess that the system could not last more than two hours running any of the mixed reality applications.
