NVIDIA Ampere GPUs drop support for VirtualLink

Remember that VirtualLink thingie that was invented a year or two ago to be able to connect VR headsets using a single cable? Well it's dead. TweakTown notes NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 30 series video cards will not feature a USB Type-C port because the VR industry has abandoned the VirtualLink standard.

Despite having a lot of promise when it was first introduced in 2018, VirtualLink never got mainstream adoption. NVIDIA's add-in board partners didn't support the idea and AMD even never released a GPU with VirtualLink support.

Unfortunately, NVIDIA was the only company that really embraced the connection standard, and its support didn't last very long. When the RTX 20 Series debuted, NVIDIA's Founders Edition cards included a USB-C VirtualLink connection. However, third party AIB partners weren't so supportive of the connection, and few of their cards had the port. By the time NVIDIA refreshed the 20 Series with the Super lineup, the VirtualLink port was already absent, but few people seemed to notice. Meanwhile, AMD never released a GPU with a VirtualLink port.