Recently I picked up a Surface Book 2 15-inch, which rocks a GTX 1060 that's perfect for VR. How well does it really work though? We went eyes-on to find out.
The Surface Book 2 is a beastly laptop, providing quad-core i7 processing, 16GB of RAM, and a GTX 1060 – which, in theory, is all the internal power you need to run Windows Mixed Reality (WMR).
WMR and VR, in general, are still in their infancies. Just earlier this week, Oculus Rift headsets all around the globe were rendered useless by an expired security certificate, and while WMR headsets are slowly gaining ground, they're still a niche within a niche. In that sense, using WMR on a Surface Book 2 is probably a niche within a niche within a niche, but alas, here we are.
I spent the day in virtual worlds with the Surface Book 2 in WMR, and here's what you need to know before considering this set up as a go-to VR option.
Full story from the WindowsCentral blog...
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