Super cool, love it. Is it possible to make a version that plugs into the back of my head?
This will be featured with the Simula Two (Matrix Edition).
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I've spent 2k just on a monitor . I'm more surprised that the quest is so cheap, but then I remember exactly what you said: the quest is not the product, I am the product . Then I remember why I don't use Meta products anymore.
Firstly what kind of monitor is that? Wtf? Also the cliche of it’s not the product, you are is cute but played out. If you’re getting your bang for buck on it as a consumer (and I know I am), then moral arguments are useless. As with all things the market makes the ultimate decisions, not the individual.
https://rog.asus.com/us/monitors/32-to-34-inches/rog-swift-p...
I have one of these - a little overpriced but looks absolutely amazing.
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#243Awesome project! I'm a regular Quest 2 user, and also use it for work sometimes. For me, the biggest drawback of the Quest 2 is that it gets uncomfortable after a while. How do you address the ergonomics problem? Compared to a Quest 2, is it more comfortable? What about collaboration? Is there something like shared workspaces planned? Or does it support a virtual cam? When do you plan to ship it (maybe I missed it on…
We are aiming for a small batch of early units to ship in Q4 '22 (prioritizing Founders Edition units and early buyers). We aim to ship the bulk of our headsets in Q1 '23. RE ergonomics and comfort: our headset is shooting for a split weight distribution between the front and the year, with good thermal management. - Most of the components in the front of our headset are low-power, which helps against heat. - Our det…
Thanks! Sounds great. I hope you'll be able to get enough presales.
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#244Looks like an interesting proposition! Definitely would like more information about how this sits on the face of a glasses wearer (or how prescription lenses can anchor into the headset). Also, there's no details on how this is powered, but given it's use case outdoors, it's suggests it's battery powered. What's the expected battery life?
RE power: Yes, it's battery powered. Our target is 3 hours (for reference: the Quest has a 2-3 hour battery life).
RE glasses & lens inserts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442633
RE ergonomics and comfort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442745 Possibly also of interest to you as well.
Hope this answers your questions. We appreciate your interest.
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#245Man, what has HAPPENED to this place? I'm the biggest curmudgeon in the room, I'll have six feet of dirt on my face before I agree to use this daily, but damn, folks, this IS cool. Everyone complains about boring stagnating consumer tech, locked-down hardware, and Mark Zuckerberg making a real go at personally stalking every single person on the planet - this is the _exact opposite of that_. This is high-end, incredi…
Thank you for the kind words. Even if VR computers aren't for everyone, we promise to keep things weird.
So one thing that may help the sales pitch to the hacker demographic here - I think we've all seen a bunch of promising hardware companies come and go. I know you guys are going to survive for the next century, but if you made a point of being extremely open with the hardware design, especially around the compute module, I think that would make a difference in people's value calculations. The closer you can make this to "I can buy commodity hardware and make it work with this headset", the better the value proposition becomes, because it means that I have something I can upgrade and work with over time, even after you all get so fantastically wealthy from building these that you retire to Bali and forget all this tawdry capitalism stuff.
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#246I would be tempted by this if I could try out SimulaVR first using my HP Reverb G2 HMD. It has great resolution, but I don't think there is a Linux driver that I guess would be the pre-requisite? I know a lot of people into VR for flight sims and driving, that spend $2000+ for high resolution VR experiences, so that demographic could be a good cross-over with this sort of productivity set-up - as long as they can try something like the window manager on their own device first?
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So the Quest 2 sold over 12million headsets in the last year. And over the last few years VR has seen a growth rate of over 20% YOY. I always wonder if when people like you make a comment if you actually look at figures or just go with your gut because you don't like something. I'm guessing the latter. The mass adoption is happening right under your nose, an entire generation of US kids are growing up with VR right n…
> So the Quest 2 sold over 12million headsets in the last year. And over the last few years VR has seen a growth rate of over 20% YOY. Right. So how on earth does this 'Simula One' stand a chance against the rest of the competition, especially when Apple, Sony, Microsoft plan on or are already competing against Meta? Compared to the competition, price and adoption, the 'Simula One' is a first-gen obsolete contraption…
>For devices like Simula One, it's dead on arrival due to the mindshare of the Oculus / Meta Quest.
I don't understand why you (and other users here) compare this to Oculus. Oculus is a Redmi phone of VR. Yeah, people buy it, and most individuals (~70% of steam users) buy 1080 monitors.
Still, there is a considerable market for 6k Apple Displays or 4k monitors. And people still buy top-tier phones for ~1k USD when they can buy a model for 250-300 and get 90% features and performance (usually except camera) of a 1k device.
I got Oculus Quest and used a few other VR and still will consider Simula because it's a device for me, someone who buys 6k Apple Display, 64 GB ram laptops, and 3080Ti GPU. Someone who wants crisp fonts, high PPI, optimized DE for Linux system. Because I need it for my needs, and there are million people like me.
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#248Well, I don't have the money now, but Q4 '22 is a while away. So this is the first newsletter I've ever signed up for. Any text thoughts on text inputs while mobile? I've actually got a split keyboard like you show in use while standing, but that looks a little janky. Maybe we all need to learn how to use twiddlers.
Thanks for signing up for our newsletter. RE the text input issue: I've thought about this a lot. Options: 1. BCI. This is the holy grail. Ideally, something which could absorb 20,000 inputs (or approximately the number of words in the English language) with extremely high accuracy. 2. Voice control. Some hackers have gotten voice programming to work with sophisticated setups. Not ideal when you need to be quiet. 3.…
In particular, I think lots of people who think they are touch-proficient will be in for a surprised when they try using a keyboard in VR and can never look at the keyboard. I certainly was. It turns out I mostly don't look, but glance occasionally, and the glances were actually pretty important. Although your passthrough would certainly help there!
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#249Holy shit, this is fucking cool, guys. I would love one. I might just buy one. It’s just the sticker shock that’s holding me back but this is fresh tech so I can understand the price point. Congrats on releasing! By the way, I think I found the AR interactions sort of strange. I think most people will have some sort of trouble talking to an unresponsive face (the problem with the eyes covered is that they’re so expre…
We have a LED display baseline in the founders edition, and it might trickle down into the base edition if we have enough sales. Definitely something we thought about in terms of expressiveness.
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> * Is there some useful interactions between 3D visualization and high-quality small-text rendering? If you have good VR/3D developer stories, then this can work.* Yes, I want to see a CAD application where the user is looking at a complex CAD model in 3D, with labeled parts and everything, and usefully interacting with it. Typing commands, grabbing and turning the model, etc.
That would be so, so cool. I don't see this happening for a while unless a CAD vendor works with us but definitely where I see this tech.
The Blender / FreeCAD communities might bite.