{"id":393327,"date":"2017-08-31T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/30\/asus-windows-mixed-reality-headset-details\/21|23190933"},"modified":"2017-08-31T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:08:00","slug":"asus-windows-mixed-reality-headset-may-come-with-a-premium-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/asus-windows-mixed-reality-headset-may-come-with-a-premium-price\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUS&#8217; Windows Mixed Reality headset may come with a premium price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It otherwise has familiar specs, including a 1,440 x 1,440 resolution in each eyepiece as well as a 90Hz refresh rate.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like it might be the WMR headset to beat, but as we said earlier, you will have to pay for that edge. ASUS&#8217; model will sell later this year for \u20ac449 (about $535). While European pricing doesn&#8217;t translate neatly to the US, that&#8217;s still noticeably more expensive than the $450 you&#8217;d pay for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/08\/28\/dell-debuts-vr-visor-at-ifa\/\">Dell Visor<\/a> with included controllers. If that price premium carries over to a US launch, you may have to think carefully about whether or not ASUS&#8217; design justifies the extra cash.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1hzE35zl-k\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZwxloWy2wTo\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow all the latest news from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/ifa2017\/\">IFA 2017<\/a> here!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It otherwise has familiar specs, including a 1,440 x 1,440 resolution in each eyepiece as well as a 90Hz refresh rate. This sounds like it might be the WMR headset to beat, but as we said earlier, you will have to pay for that edge. ASUS&#8217; model will sell later this year for \u20ac449 (about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":393328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-393327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}