A game studio with zero hardware experience is building a VR-ready console

Ian Bell is the owner of Slightly Mad Studios, which is company that focuses on gaming such as racing on mainstream consoles and PCs. Jumping out of its shell, the Slightly Mad team decided to build a console that had virtual reality integrated into the system. They’ve decided to dub this new console MadBox. Bell took to his personal Twitter account to talk about how this particular VR hadset is capable of 180fps, which has never been achieved before.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Mad Box is able to reach 180fps, which no other VR headset is able to reach.
  • Mad Box’s owners are in contact with over 20 hardware companies in order to choose the best candidate for manufacturing.
  • The team of developers at Mad Box have the necessary skills to create a cost-effective plan with optimal functionality.

“When pressed about Slightly Mad’s lack of hardware production experience, Bell pointed to his first job “28 years ago” building PCs. Bell does not list that work experience on his LinkedIn page, nor did he clarify how that experience in a PC-building shop might apply to our question about “producing a computer system at scale.””

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/project-cars-studio-announces-its-next-project-a-next-gen-wireless-vr-console/