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Somnium VR1 Hands-on: Enthusiast Level PC VR at a Difficult Price Point (www.roadtovr.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/virtualreality

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Somnium VR1 is a new PC VR headset that delivers an impressive field-of-view (FOV) and high-resolution displays, ideally appealing to enthusiasts already in the SteamVR tracking ecosystem looking for an upgrade, or businesses with the cash to splash. I got a chance to go hands-on at the company’s Somnium Connect event held in Prague, Czechia over the weekend, giving me my first look at the version heading out to customers that’s said to start shipping sometime this month.

The Prague-based company behind VR1 is best known for its metaverse platform Somnium Space, making it the first in what promises to be a series of large FOV headsets. It’s very well refined for a first device, owing to the company’s close partnership with XTAL, the Czech hardware manufacturer behind a series of high-resolution, high FOV enterprise XR headsets.

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[–] fhein 2 points 5 months ago

I read that too, but I suspect that it's going to be a major update to the Index with a price tag to match. And if course it might take quite some time before it's finally released, as say..

Personally I'd be happy with a minor upgrade (resolution primarily) for a lower price and sooner, if that was an option