HP Introduces New Era of Virtual Reality for Developers and Enterprises
September 30 2020 - 8:00AM
Today, HP Inc. unveiled the HP Omnicept Solution, bringing the
world’s most intelligent VR headset and a developer focused SDK
into a single platform, equipping VR software developers with an
ecosystem to create new hyper-personalized, engaging, and adaptive
VR experiences for enterprises. The HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition
VR headset enables real-time human insights that improve training
and education outcomes as well as enhance collaboration and design.
The VR landscape evolves to keep pace with how people interact
with technology and the world around them to stay and feel
connected. Facial expression and body language account for up to
50% of effective communication and with 25% - 30% of the workforce
projected to be working from home in 20213, new immersive tools are
required for better remote collaboration in design and development
workflows. HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition and the Omnicept SDK are
designed to curate more human and personal experiences with
technology. Since pre-Covid, there has been a 35% increase in the
use of tech in training4 and VR is proven to significantly increase
retention rates for learning and training. The HP Omnicept Solution
is transforming how developers drive change and increase efficiency
in enterprises by adding data for more insightful analysis.
“We’ve designed a powerful, adaptive VR solution to dramatically
accelerate the use cases for VR, its potential to transform
society, and the way we interact with technology,” said Jim
Nottingham, general manager and global head, Advanced Compute and
Solutions, HP Inc. “The HP Omnicept Solution will open new
possibilities for VR development and its impact on enterprise
training, remote education, collaboration, research and
development, and specialized wellbeing. This type of data-driven
approach will be fundamental to creating user-centric experiences
for better VR in the future.”
The HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition is built with a highly secure
pipeline for protecting end-user privacy. The headset’s firmware
safeguards the sensor data at every moment of capture and no data
is stored in the headset. HP Omnicept-powered applications help
ensure the capture and transfer of data comply with general data
protection regulation (GDPR) requirements and keep user data
confidential.
HUMAN CENTERED VR
EXPERIENCES Personalized experiences based on analytics
and actionable insights increase retention rates for training and
learning and improve wellbeing. Sensors on the headset, including
eye tracking, heart rate, pupillometry, and face camera, enable the
HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition to capture physiological responses.
The integrated Omnicept SDK, powered by advanced machine learning
algorithms, then interprets the data and allows developers to
create a user-centric VR experience that provides actionable
insights into how end users engage and respond during the
experience.
With this end-to-end intelligent platform, experiences built by
product designers and developers for training, design, wellness,
and research become data-driven, adapting to users in real-time via
objective metrics vs. subjective feedback. HP Reverb Omnicept
Editions features include:
- Reverb G2
DNA: Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition
builds on the foundation of the Reverb G2, the highest resolution
VR headset among major vendors5, delivering cutting-edge optics,
inside-out tracking, spatial 3D audio, and improved controllers
with natural gestures.
- Eye Motion and Gaze:
Understand how the user is responding to content based on their
focus area and understanding engagement levels, based on where they
instinctively look.
- Facial Expression: Enables naturally
expressive avatars while collaborating around 3D designs for more
natural and engaging conversations, helping enable faster and more
efficient outcomes in a cross-functional development
processes.
- Heart Rate: Understand how a user is
responding to an experience or training, based on their heart rate.
For example, practitioners can adapt wellness treatments in
VR-based on their specific client’s reactions.
- Foveated Rendering: With
integrated eye tracking, this HMD is able to discern the user's
gaze direction6, enabling a reduction in GPU load and improved
image quality within the user's foveal region, enhancing VR
realism.
HP Reverb G2 Omnicept
Edition Pricing and
Availability
- The HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition is expected to be available
in Spring 2021. Pricing will be shared closer to product
availability.
- HP Omnicept SDK is expected to be available in Spring 2021 and
will include a flexible business model. To view options and learn
more, visit developers.hp.com/xr.
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1 Based on HP’s internal analysis of VR headsets with
intelligent rendering based on vision-tracking; and mouth camera,
eye-tracking cameras, EMG and PPG sensors, and pupillometry to
enable cognitive load (requires integration through HP Omnicept SDK
software) as of September 30, 2020. 2 Based on HP’s internal
analysis of VR headsets with intelligent rendering based on
vision-tracking; and mouth camera, eye-tracking cameras, EMG and
PPG sensors, and pupillometry to enable cognitive load (requires
integration through HP Omnicept SDK software) as of September 30,
2020. 3 HP Proprietary Survey, 20204 HP Proprietary Survey,
20205 Based on HP's internal analysis of companies that have
shipped greater than 50,000 VR tethered headsets. Resolution based
on panel pixel count as of March 2020.6 NVIDIA VR Ready Quadro or
GeForce Turing based GPU required for foveated rendering. For
developers, Unity foveated rendering plug-in and run-time are also
required and available from the Unity Store or HP Developer Portal
https://developers.hp.com/omnicept/downloads
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Conor Driscoll, Z by HP
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