NVIDIA has an impressive system on display at GTC 2017 powered by four Quadro P6000 GPUs. Each Quadro P6000 hooked up to an HTC Vive Business Edition headset with a Lighthouse tracking system. This project is meant to be a proof-of-concept for what NVIDIA envision is a shared VR experience on a single machine. Multiple people can collaborate and interact within the same space; which is somewhat of an unfulfilled promise of VR up to this point.
Technically, you can build a similar system yourself, but it is not going to be cheap. Each NVIDIA Quadro P600 GPU costs more than most high-end PCs already at £4,150.00 each. Multiply this number by four, and it would cost approximately £16,600 just for the GPUs alone. Each HTC Vive Business Edition headset costs £1,251.84 via Amazon.co.uk, so four of those is an additional £5007.36.
Although NVIDIA did not disclose the remainder of the hardware used in their blog post, the photo shows that they are using server-level hardware. This includes multiple 1U power supplies for each GPU, server processors, ECC RAM and storage which would cost several thousand more. The entire system costs approximately £25,000 to £30,000.
This amount is of course far from the reach of any consumer. According to NVIDIA however, a multi-VR single-system like this has plenty of uses in commercial, military and entertainment industries. “The possibilities are endless,” adds Tom Kaye, a senior solutions architect at NVIDIA. These industries can easily afford and invest in this system and are relatively low-cost compared to what they deliver.
This four-user virtual reality system is on display currently at GTC inside the VR village. Users can try the demo out themselves if they are in the area.
MonsterVR, a community-driven VR development studio, will demo the system with its multi-VR application for the architecture, engineering and construction industry in HTC’s booth 700.
And CAVRNUS, a VR company offering solutions for collaborative design, engineering, training and education, will show in-the-field training with multi-user VR in booth 934.
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