Tokyo Virtual Reality Expo 2008: $80,000 high-end VR helmet presented
- June 27th, 2008
- 5 Comments
Yesterday I attended the 16th Industrial Virtual Reality Expo in Tokyo to find some cool tech to cover for CrunchGear. However, a lot of what I saw was just boring stuff. Advanced maybe, but boring: motion capturing systems, VR games, 3D projectors etc.
One exception was the so-called “High End Wearable Display Device” HEWDD-768. The VR helmet has been around for a while now, but I was able to scrutinize the newest version of the product and shoot a video. The display was presented by Crescent [JP], a Tokyo-based technology company.
The odd-looking head-mounted display uses overhead projection technology and comes with built-in airbags to make the device (2.4 kg) less cumbersome to wear. A weight canceller is also available. The HEWDD-768 features a resolution of 1280×768, 5.9 megapixel definition and 120 degrees of full stereoscopy.
Crescent charges $80,000 for the display, while the weight canceller will set you back $9,900.
tim (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Also good for making a person look like a hammerhead shark or maybe Awesome Andy
Ken (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Nah, he looks more like Pyramid Head. Still, cool stuff.
Tom (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Uh, great, but how does it look in there? What kind of performance do you get for $80,000?
(Who am I?)
3 months ago
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http://cb.nowan.net/blog
Yossi Preminger (Who am I?)
3 months ago
Get with the program, there a new generation of HMD’s in town:
Sensics
http://www.sensics.com/
Sensics make their HMD’s with OLED displayes which are extremly light and do not flicker.
Their top of the line model costs something like 500k dollars and shows 4200×2400 pixel per eye.
If you want something more reasonable, for $27.5k you can get one which shows 2400×600 pixels per eye. (120 degrees horizontal FOV)
That’s twice as many as the one featured in the article above for a third of the price and considerably lighter.