Sulon Q – VR Headset That Puts The Hardware On Your Head

Toronto-based startup Sulon Technologies unveiled the Sulon Q headset, which gives you the full VR experience without needing to be tethered to your PC. The Sulon cuts the cords and provides a PC-based, fully tracked virtual reality experience with all the hardware mounted to your head. This is a different approach than Facebook’s Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive VR headset that both require the wearer to be connected to a PC that they already own.

Sulon Technologies’ Q headset features an AMD FX-8800P processor with Radeon R7 Graphics to get render the VR content. This quad-core processor has 8 GPU cores and that is enough graphics horse power to get the job done according to Sulon. Sulon says that this processor uses up to 35W of power, but the AMD website has it listed at just 15W. (Update 3/14/2016: AMD noted that the FX-8800P ‘Carrizo’ can be configured in the BIOS/UEFI to be either a 15W or 35w part.)

The head mounted device also integrates 8GB of DDR3L RAM and a 256GB SSD. Sulon promises “console-quality visuals” from this system, even if it’s not entirely clear what that means for a VR headset just yet.

Sulon says that the headset is able to render stunning videogame console-quality visuals on a beautiful 2560×1440 OLED display that has a 110-degree field of view. The Sulon Q headset also integrates AMDs LiquidVR technologies as well as support for the DirectX 12 and Vulkan API’s to ensure smooth and responsive VR and AR experiences. The Sulon Q is also being called a “Spatial Processing Unit”, or SPU for short. Ready to buy a SPU for VR?

Neither Sulon nor AMD mentioned the weight of this ‘lightweight’ headset, but we would think that it would have some heft to it. Might be time to go back and get licensed to be a chiropractor! The launch date for the Sulon Q is said to be in “late spring.”