Intel dropping its Project Alloy ‘merged reality’ headset Plans & working on VR Logic Unit for Processors

Intel has dropped its plan to build hardware and technology named as “Project Alloy” which they termed as “Merged Reality”. This is somewhat similar to Microsoft’s recently announced Mixed Reality.

Reported by Road to VR, Intel has majorly dropped the plan because they did not find OEM interest in their project, and I am guessing it’s mostly because Microsoft made a huge deal with Mixed Reality, and have OEMs on board with hardware going on sale when Windows 10 Fall Creators Update announced.

That said, this reporting comes close to PCWorld reports where  Kim Pallister, the director of the Virtual Reality Center of Excellence at Intel shared that the company is now working to build a VR Logic unit right inside the processor. This will enable any PC, even low budget ones, to experience Mixed Reality on their Windows 10 PC. However, this is work in progress.

Verge shares that even though Intel’s Project Alloy hardware was chunky, and it was less smooth compared to the Mixed Reality headsets for Windows 10.

That said, it seems Microsoft idea to put VR support into Windows 10 PC turned out to be great. While most of the companies were trying to bring custom software, and hardware that was too tough to manage, Microsoft made it easy with integrating it into the Windows 10 PC.

Now that we know that Intel is working on a logic unit that will become part of the future processors, it will change things a by a great margin, and also make hardware much cheaper.