With advanced VR headsets priced at or below $1000, a new gaming PC that will take another grand or more and then you add in subscription/software, you are in some serious dollar territory for that much deserved virtual reality experience. The experience Priceless!
5 Dimes now may help cushion some of that growing dollar pain. Introducing Spectra7. In the VR headgear news coverage, you would have noticed a lot of chatter around the cables that need to be connected to the headset. It’s a pain but it’s a pain that is being managed by all the headgear manufacturers. One way of managing it is to make the cables thin and still deliver the required bandwidth. You will see that the Oculus DK2 cable has shrunk in size dramatically compared to DK1. What appears to be a normal HDMI port and cable in DK2 has actually a little magical chip called Spectra7 VR7100 a cable processor that helps immensely in providing your head gear the 4k Resolution 60p good stuff for making the VR experience shine.

Spectra7 Microsystems is a high performance analog semiconductor company delivering unprecedented speed, resolution and signal fidelity that enables ultra-light, high-speed, micro-thin interconnects which enable new classes of industrial design for market-leading consumer electronic products including Ultra-HD 4K Displays and Televisions, Virtual Reality, Wearable Computing and Tablets. The VR7100 enables a new generation of ultra-thin and ultra-light copper interconnects for Consumer Virtual Reality(VR)Interconnects. FeaturingSpectra7’s patented high-speed, active signal processing technology, the VR7100 delivers up to 4K Ultra HD resolution without requiring an external power source, enabling both the speed and low latency necessary to achieve the ultra-light, unobtrusive, ultra-high bandwidth connectivity for the latest virtual reality platforms.

By integrating the VR7100 into an ultra-small, robust module, Spectra7 is enabling a new class of ultra-thin and ultra-light interconnects that deliver a fully immersive, stereoscopic 3D experience and transform the industrial design of virtual reality platforms.

They are a small and emerging company out of Palo Alto and over the past few months they have announced quite a few products and patents to support the wearables space. SPECTRA7’S AR-CONNECTTM was delivered as the industry’s first active interconnects to rapidly expanding AUGMENTED reality market.

In Jan of 2015, the company announced record revenues and increasing product gross margins. As headlines regarding virtual reality and augmented reality have been in the press, this company has been capturing some of that momentum. On Oct 7th, Spectra announced that they received record bookings in their third quarter.

The Stock (SEV) currently trades at $0.47 with a 52 week high of $1.04. With all the momentum projected in the VR/AR market for 2016, this is one stock that can provide some green bills come next year to help you with the growing $$$ pain associated with your VR hardware and gear update. For another investing idea related to VR Economics, please check the article “https://vrhappening.com/nvidia-at-52-week-high-real-or-virtual/ “