HP today announced a unified approach and commercial solutions for
virtual reality (VR), positioning itself as the partner of choice
for businesses looking to reduce concept to production cycle times,
improve training procedures and deliver fully immersive customer
experiences. As part of this strategy, the company is unveiling the
world’s first professional wearable VR PC1 - the new HP Z VR
Backpack. Crafted to bring the full potential of VR to-life, it is
the world’s most secure and manageable wearable VR PC2 ever
created.
“Virtual reality is changing the way people learn, communicate
and create,” said Xavier Garcia, vice president and general
manager, Z Workstations, HP Inc. “Making the most of this
technology requires a collaborative relationship between customers
and partners. As a leader in technology, HP is uniting powerful
commercial VR solutions, including new products like the HP Z VR
Backpack, with customer needs to empower VR experiences our
customers can use today to reinvent the future.”
The opportunities for commercial VR are limitless for businesses
in product design, architecture, healthcare, first responder
training, automotive and entertainment. Emerging technologies like
VR create breakthrough experiences for customers – from reinventing
the buying experience in automotive showrooms to changing the way
hospitals train their staff.
HP’s Winning Approach to VR
HP’s approach to virtual reality is founded upon its rich
history of product innovation and deeply rooted customer
relationships. HP works as an extension of its customers’
businesses, which enables it to deliver the most immersive
technologies that help businesses lead their industries. HP
technology not only provides commercial-grade reliability, but also
established world-class partnerships that bring together the
complete VR ecosystem with Intel, NVIDIA, Technicolor, HTC Vive and
others.
The company is investing in immersive virtual and augmented
reality technologies to give customers and partners superb tools
for commercial VR use cases. This effort solidifies HP’s long-term
commitment to VR and helping customers use VR to reinvigorate their
business. Thirteen immersion centers will open later this year in
Palo Alto, Houston, Boise, Fort Collins, Stockholm, London, Paris,
Barcelona, Boeblingen, Beijing, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore, and
have been designed so customers can have an immersive experience
using HP VR technology and receive consulting and learn how to best
deploy VR devices within their business to streamline
workflows.
The Mobility to Transform – HP Z VR Backpack
The HP Z VR Backpack solution provides the freedom to move and
maintain total immersion with high-octane visual performance and
docking capabilities that transform it into a manageable, powerful
desktop PC experience. The HP Z VR Backpack is a catalyst for more
powerful VR experiences across many enterprises and businesses
including the following use case examples:
- Businesses can use VR to deliver safe and effective simulated
training in dangerous environments, in medical training or for
heavy/large equipment operations. In all these environments costly
mistakes can be avoided with effective VR training solutions using
the HP Z VR Backpack.
- In architectural building development, virtual walkthroughs at
scale for client reviews can help quickly close the deal.
- In product development where product concepts are reviewed,
executive agreement and sign off for new product styling can be
done in virtual product showrooms.
- In commercial entertainment, new location-based entertainment
centers featuring exhilarating virtual reality experiences can now
be realized with the HP Z VR Backpack.
With the workstation-class HP Z VR Backpack, the full potential
of VR is brought to-life. HP’s fully immersive and untethered
VR Backpack is light with an ergonomic backpack design and hot
swappable batteries to provide unrestricted freedom within an
immersive experience. It has high-end processing power and the
latest high-fidelity graphic solution to help prevent disruptive
dropped frames so users can work in VR for as long as needed. The
Intel® Core™ i7 vPro™ processor provides the power to process
applications quickly and includes the vPro chipset. The HP Z VR
Backpack is the first wearable VR PC in the market with the NVIDIA®
Quadro® P5200 with a huge 16GB video memory3. Finally, its docking
solution lets digital creators quickly transition back and forth
between high powered desktop for content design and wearable VR PC
to validate creations. The HTC Vive™ Business Edition HMD (sold
separately) is part of the HP VR portfolio. HP Z VR Backpack
is scheduled to be available in September starting at $3,299 USD.
The datasheet is available here.
The HP VR Product Portfolio
HP’s versatile, high-powered devices empower customers to create
and consume VR content. HP’s commercial grade products are designed
for mission critical business applications that require high levels
of security, manageability, reliabilty and ISV certified
applications.
The HP ZBook 17 Mobile Workstation delivers ultimate power and
performance and can be configured with the optimal horsepower and
graphics solutions to bring VR content to-life in an ultra-smooth
90 FPS VR experience.
HP Z Desktop Workstations are designed to create visually
stimulating, accurate and compelling VR content. HP Z Workstations
desktops feature the latest processors and graphics cards and are
built to stay quiet, cool and reliable for graphic-intensive
tasks.
The HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Tower, a VR-certified PC, features high
performance and expandability in a stylishly redesigned 26 percent
smaller chassis for the modern workplace. It is ideal for companies
wanting to future-proof their technology and deliver
state-of-the-art capabilities.
The OMEN X Compact Desktop brings gamers an immersive
experience. The factory-overclocked GPU from NVIDIA and versatile
form factor means it can dock and undock quickly for gaming
anywhere or can be used as a backpack for an untethered consumer VR
gaming experience.
Project Mars
HP also announced HP Mars Home Planet, a project in partnership
with NVIDIA, Technicolor, Fusion, Autodesk®, Unreal, Launch Forth
and Vive. The collaboration will create a global online co-creation
community to reinvent life on Mars for one million humans, in
virtual reality.
About HP
HP Inc. creates technology that makes life better for everyone,
everywhere. Through our portfolio of printers, PCs, mobile devices,
solutions, and services, we engineer experiences that amaze. More
information about HP Inc. is available at http://www.hp.com.
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editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
Footnotes
1. Based on wearable VR PCs as of July
20, 2017. Based on backpack VR PCs with Intel® vPro™, TPM 2.0 and
Windows 10 Pro OS as of July 20, 2017. Multicore is designed to
improve performance of certain software products. Not all customers
or software applications will necessarily benefit from use of this
technology. Performance and clock frequency will vary depending on
application workload and your hardware and software configurations.
Intel’s numbering is not a measurement of higher performance. Some
functionality of vPRo technology, such as Intel Active management
technology and Intel Virtualization technology, requires additional
3rd party software in order to run. Availability of future
"virtual appliances" applications for Intel vPro technology is
dependant on 3rd party software providers. Compatibility with
future "virtual appliances" is yet to be determined.
2. Based on HP’s unique and
comprehensive security capabilities at no additional cost and HP’s
Manageability Integration Kit’s management of every aspect of a PC
including hardware, BIOS and software management using Microsoft
System Center Configuration Manager among VR Backpack vendors as of
May 2017 on the HP Z VR Backpack with 7th Gen Intel®
Processors.
3. First PC on the market with an
NVIDIA® Quadro® P5200. First as of July 20, 2017.
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Kimberly Oulton, Edelman for HP
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