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.
Also good for making a person look like a hammerhead shark or maybe Awesome Andy
Nah, he looks more like Pyramid Head. Still, cool stuff.
Uh, great, but how does it look in there? What kind of performance do you get for $80,000?
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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.
I want to know about virtual reality fair or Expo in te united states or in south america.
Do you know something about that?’
Thanks for your help