I'll never be not proud of this. Shipping a Mixed Reality headset / "spatial computer" to the whole world now, designed in Europe.
How many times did I hear that we won't make it? That it was impossible in the face of our competitors or our resources?
After many months of silence and hard work, I will proudly reveal with my team LYNX: the first standalone headset for
#MixedReality
(AR + VR) in San Francisco in exactly 7 days during
#spiexr
🤯
Watch live and be ready:
- Price cut (price announced soon, only a few hundreds $)
- For Consumers & Businesses
- AR + VR (as always)
- Kickstarter in September
- Demos by end of August (VR, AR, games, everything...)
Video:
Thanks to OpenXR, MRTK 2 and 3 are fully supported with our upcoming SDK (released on October 10th). Opposed to Hololens, Lynx supports both AR and VR (and everything in between) with it!
I just arrived in Silicon Valley with prototypes to meet investors and partners. I know about this covid thing but is anyone up for a Mixed Reality demo?
Rumor has it that I'm staying at
@PalmerLuckey
house. Crazy, right?
Someone I know recreated a full MRI scanner in VR so their mom can train and fight the anxiety of going through this for her treatment.
AR/VR is a computing tool that can help us fight our fears. How awesome is that.
It was a lot of fun putting our Mixed Reality headset up to the ultimate test in terms of latency, atmospheric pressure and low temperature!
Video next week! 🤓
We just published a low poly simplified CAD file for developers and partners!
Use it freely in a 3D scene, to design accessories/stickers/packaging etc...
It's based on the CAD file we use in mass production.
For VR lovers, we are shipping with the headset a VR cover to immerse you fully!
An optional cover supports most glasses.
to stay updated for the Kickstarter campaign.
Now this is podracing!
✅Ultra low-latency
✅Good display quality and brightness
✅Spatial and temporal alignment with reality
Lynx R-1 is the most versatile headset and I'm not afraid to prove it.
Building apps for Lynx will be as simple as on the major platforms thanks to OpenXR!
1-click installation on Unity3D. We're polishing the SDK right now, everything is coming together.
This is excellent news for the ecosystem. After our successful Kickstarter we're now able to secure our supply chain completely and fulfill the insane demand we're facing.
New investors are top of the line and from the AR/VR world.
What you see in the headset when skateboarding, a nice demo in a very challenging environment (outside, bright sun, people moving,...) Impossible for any other mobile AR device.
This is my new outfit to do grocery shopping and avoid the virus. It's also convenient because people respect social distancing much faster👽
#MixedReality
Today I had the cool opportunity to explain to the French Presidential team how AR/VR is a strategic issue to address in both technology and usage (& privacy...)
They loved the
#MixedReality
Lynx demo! Stay tuned👀
Lynx will be everywhere in 2022. So proud to work in such environments. Mixed Reality goes far beyond entertainment, it will change our relationship with anything we describe as "virtual", starting with Internet.
I'm in love.
Transparent prototypes are really underrated. Team was able to validate a lot of stuff very quickly with these models. They are fully functional btw.
Maybe it will be a limited Lynx
#MixedReality
Edition(?)
A team member created a simple device that let you experience hyperstereopsis : seeing the world with a greater interpupillary distance (x2.5 in this device). The world looks much smaller, and it gives you a funny look.
Boom! Here is the first results we have on our
#MixedReality
mode. It's filmed with a GoPro so you can appreciate the continuity between the peripheral vision and the 90° center FOV of Lynx. Let me know what you think.
Some Lynx R-1 demos we make are just wild haha
I used the headset today at the Bichat hospital from
@APHP
(full video coming soon with them)
Mixed Reality will change our lives, including so many jobs.
Lynx's center of gravity is optimal for comfort, and at 500grams, you can wear it a long time without pain! Really awesome work from the whole hardware team for such coordination 🔥
All Facebook services are currently down including the Oculus app, Oculus Store, and Oculus website.
Facebook's domains currently return NXDOMAIN, the error for domains that do not exist.
Un vrai plaisir de revenir discuter avec les meilleurs sur
@UnderscoreTalk
et d'avoir (enfin) fait essayer le Lynx R-1 au brave
@Micode
(sa réaction en live dans la vidéo)
Our OpenXR SDK and Application Store will be revealed last week of September to developers. Still working on a firm date but things are really looking good. Stay tuned.
Work in progress but this is the accessory I talkd about in the video ()
It will allow you to attach accessories to your headset very easily. The 3D model and blueprints will be shared on our website soon!
Quest 2, Lynx R-1 and Quest Pro photon-to-photon passthrough latency histograms for turbonerds. Experiment conducted in a room with similar lighting, with an empty Unity3D scene.
What a cool award! (Seriously!?)
This also goes to the Lynx team and everyone who is believing in what we do. I have so many people to thank and I feel blessed for what was accomplished and the path ahead.
Some progress on image quality we've made for Lynx passthrough. Hardware is the same, we're just finally bringing the magic of software updates on top of it!
Special feeling last night to have Lynx now linked to the long history of VR and AR at MIT for the
@mitrealityhack
. I can't thank the community enough for the enthousiasm around Lynx and what it will bring to the ecosystem soon enough now.
Signpost partners with Lynx to bring the first 1000 mixed reality Lynx headsets to students in Belgium in 2023 🚀🚀🚀
This is huge. I'm really happy to see more and more people rallying to our project to build the European champion of Mixed Reality.
It's never too late to have an alternative to Big Corp, an open ecosystem from the hardware all the way to the application layer, a unique approach on Mixed Reality, world class hand-tracking, great image clarity across the FOV, etc
Behind the scenes drama in XR (supply chain stuff, acquisitions, big players moves, betrayals, etc...) is getting even more intense as it's growing and I love every second of it 🍿
I'm still pinching myself that *this* really happened.
What a great show of music and innovation with
@jeanmicheljarre
who could see both the real audience and the virtual one at the same time thanks to Lynx R-1.
Low-latency and zero distortion were key as you can imagine!
Hugo trying out HL Alyx in VR with Lynx R-1 while we shoot the Kickstarter main video for next week.
Wifi streaming from
@nvidia
CloudXR is working well.
Turns out making a privacy respecting, AR+VR untethered headset is not a bad idea based on the thousands of feedbacks received in the last days.
My team and I are overwhelmed by the support. Thank you.
See you next Thursday.
Breaking news.
Big Tech scooping away cool tech in our industry is finally challenged.
@ASychov
and us at Lynx will make sure this lens system is being use for the right headsets!
PRESS RELEASE:
@SomniumSpace
has led an investment round into Israeli VR Optics Development House, Hypervision Ltd. Joining forces with
@Lynx_xr
and
@Vrgineers
, we're thrilled about this collaboration.
@ASychov
will be joining Board of Directors.
Surprise, Lynx will be the first
#MixedReality
device leveraging the latest hand-tracking 👐 technology from
@ultraleap
! We are very excited to work together alongside
@Qualcomm
Today we announce a multi-year agreement with
@Qualcomm
to bring our world-leading hand tracking to the
#Snapdragon
XR2 5G platform 🎉
Our fifth generation platform – Gemini – will be pre-integrated in the XR2 chip for untethered
#XR
.
Full story below⤵️
The father of the Apple headset is definitely
@BertrandNepveu
Check out his story, the guy has been working on it for 18 YEARS. Passion, vision and persistence...
Today is your day my friend.
I won't see the end of the Kickstarter campaign as I'm on my way to
@ARealityEvent
with two precious devices.
See you at the
@Qualcomm
booth there!
Thank you all for an exciting month that is just the beginning🚀
For the last few months now, the legend Jean-Michel Jarre
@jeanmicheljarre
is a true believer in Lynx and helps us design the future of Mixed Reality.
The community around Lynx is very exciting. So much work and it keeps being an absolute joy!
Teasing of the next
@NathieVR
video next week, where he will do a hands-on of
#LynxR1
and also play Beatsaber, Alyx with the headset on
@SteamVR
over Wifi!!
We like to keep things simple, and we took the opposite direction. When you buy a Lynx headset, it's yours. It is not tied to an identity and it will not track you in any way. You are free to do what you want with the device, it is designed for that and we'll help you.