Rivvr's Wireless VR Coming to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

Everyone's perception of the future is full of amazing digital technology. And what makes digital technology more appealing? Wireless digital technology.

Wireless Virtual Reality Available Thru Rivvr. Virtual reality used to be just a thing in science fiction movies and tech conventions. Fast-forward to now and we have VR technology which is readily accessible to interested tech-savvy consumers. One of the few virtual reality tech companies to thank for this is Rivvr, a hardware startup that spun off of cloud-computing company, Sixa, through their wireless VR devices.

The current buzz on the web is that Rivvr is looking to provide wireless VR technology to both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, two amazing virtual reality headsets currently available on the market. Other wireless devices are aiming to send raw HDMI signals in their entirety over the air. This could cause a lot of latency and disappointments.

Rivvr uses proprietary technology to compress these signals into a much smaller video feed. With this, they are able to send about only 40 to 80 Mbps of video signals wirelessly.

The wireless virtual reality device Rivvr offers weighs roughly around 300 grams. The added weight to the VR headsets actually goes unnoticed. What users immediately feel though is liberation from annoying wires.

As far as performance is concerned, there are still some kinks that Rivvr needs to work out. One such kink is the video dropping while the wireless device is being used. However, tracking seems to be performing flawlessly.

There hasn't been a price set for Rivvr's wireless device yet. Rivvr is looking into revealing more details at next month's CES convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company did make mention of its price being around the $200 to $300 range for both the 3-hour battery life and 6-hour battery life models. Rivvr's wireless VR devices are expected to be on sale by the end of the second quarter of 2017.