If it can do innside out tracking its way more data efficent to have compute onboard. And if you already have a decent amount of compute you can scale it up just a little more to have. a fully standalone unit.
I'm not sure going from less than $50 of RAM and a $50 processor for foveated eye tracking to 16 GiB of RAM ($300) and a Snapdragon 8 ($200) is a "slight bump".
Wait I don't realise ram prices where this bad. Bought my kit for about a tenth of that a while ago. Ouch.
Yeah, can't wait for the AI hype bubble to finally end. Hey, we might even get some nice fast repurposed HBM from the scrappers reusing stuff from the bankruptcy auctions. :)
Yeah! Just like we all made out when the cryptocurrency bubble burst too!
Yeah! Got some nice and very cheep GPUs back then. :)
Foveated eye tracking, but also SLAM for the controllers. Also, to be fair, the onboard processing costs less than a separate VR capable PC.
The onboard processing costs a whole lot more than a PC you already have.
Even with some compute on board you could save most of the additional weight by making it tethered.
compute is fine. its necessary battery is not. compute is almost weightless, battery crushes heads.
Which is why it is in the back part, balancing out the frot part.
Balance is only one thing, total weight still matters very much.