Mixed AR Headset Lynx R1 Gets Its First Third-Party Review 20
Long-time Slashdot reader TuringTest writes: The mixed AR/VR standalone headset Lynx R1, which is undergoing an already-funded Kickstarter campaign, got this week its first third-party hands-on review by independent reviewers Cas and Chary VR.
Check also the video that the company released yesterday demonstrating for the first time the combined color pass-through AR, VR and its incorporated Ultraleap hand-tracking capabilities of the device.
Check also the video that the company released yesterday demonstrating for the first time the combined color pass-through AR, VR and its incorporated Ultraleap hand-tracking capabilities of the device.
Nano-jitters. (Score:2)
Interesting when he moved the sun you could see it jittering slightly.
Re: Nano-jitters. (Score:2)
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Yeah .. it's good as a demo though. A slightly better camera and a little more processing power would eliminate the jitter. The camera would need more megapixels than the display. VR in 10 years will be amazing when we get OLED or uLED 12K per eye displays that use foveated rendering. The foveated rendering would allow the scene to look realistic even without much GPU power because only the parts of the display that you're looking at will be rendering high quality.
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What you're describing as existing 10 years in the future is the Varjo XR-3 right now
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More like existing 10 years in the future for a near commodity price, not the 13x cost of the reviewed item.
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More like existing 10 years in the future for a near commodity price, not the 13x cost of the reviewed item.
They released this week the Varjo Aero, for only 4x the cost (though it removes the AR passthrough and it's a wired device, so it's not really comparable)
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What AR needs is a killer app. At the moment it's all demos and novelty games.
We were promised AR assistance for things like car maintenance. Something that has real-world applications and which is clearly better than what we already have.
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What AR needs is a killer app. At the moment it's all demos and novelty games.
Infinite desktop screen space looks like a very promising candidate for a killer app. There's even a Linux VR desktop environment [github.com] that could be used as a basis. It works as pure VR, but a mixed reality environment where you could still see the room (and keyboard!) would be even better.
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I'm not convinced that AR will ever work for desktop. It would need extremely high resolution displays and frame rates to provide an experience similar to simply sitting in front of a couple of 4k monitors. I'd be worried about the weight of the headset too, for long term use.
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VR headsets are not really heavyweight, some are not heavier than a bike helmet. If they are well balanced, there's no discomfort in wearing them for hours.
The most expensive stuff like the Varjo VR-3 [varjo.com] and XR-3 have extremely high resolution, up to 3,000 PPI [varjo.com] according to its manufacturer.
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Also, back in the day we programmed in 256x192 screens and we liked it ;-)
I haven't tried SimulaX, [github.com] but it has a filter for enhanced readability and they're eating their own dogfood [youtube.com] even with a lower-res headset, so it looks viable.
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I tend to agree that the comfort and resolution isn't quite there yet but people are already doing it. For me personally I think comfort is the bigger hurdle as current headsets aren't that bad resolution wise. This blog [immersed.team] is a very interesting and detailed account of one individuals experience replacing his monitors with VR. The blog also made it's way to Slashdot about a month ago [slashdot.org] and the author answered questions in the thread.
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The AR killer app, just like with everything else, is going to be porn.
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Surely PREview, at best. These things aren't on sale or in production. They're subject to a a kickstarter campaign! She had to go to their offices to see a pre-production unit. They (probably optimically based on similar products in the past) hope to have them produced next year. There is no reason to suppose what she saw is particularly similar to what, if anything, will finally be prodiced.
Except because the product design is already finished, so the only expected variations are in terms of tweaks for accelerating mass production. The specs, feature set and price have already been decided.
Has features all standalone headsets should adopt (Score:1)
Clickbait. Really, Slashdot? (Score:2)
I expect Slashdot articles to be a precis of a news article, with links to the original should I choose to read more. THIS is just clickbait. Would it have killed you to indicate whether the review was postive, negative, or mixed?
Hope you're getting some kickback for all the clickthroughs you're generating.
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I sent the link because I wanted you to know the existence of this Kickstarter campaign, I have set no clickthroughs and get no revenue out of it. The demo video is one minute long and the Kickstarter campaign is fairly descriptive, so you could make your own mind.
If you want your conclusions spoon-fed to you, you can go look for your own reviews yourself.
(BTW the review was complex and didn't reach a single thumbs-up or thumbs-down, it's conclusion was "it has great possibilities and you can trust that wha