With the goal of building VR headsets with the best visual quality, a Prague-based company called VRgineers has developed a $5,800 VR headset that features two Quad HD OLED displays and a 180º field-of-view.
Called XTAL, the VR headset is marketing for professionals and businesses in various industries such as design and engineering. Integrated with Autodesk VRED, Unity, and other design programs, XTAL will “provide unsurpassed visual fidelity in real-time rendering and allow those designing, prototyping, rendering, reviewing, training and presenting to do so with limitless possibilities in the best possible virtual quality”.
Fitted with patented non-Fresnel VR lenses developed in partnership with Israeli consortium VR Optics, the XTAL VR headset with the two Quad HD (2560 x 1440 resolution) OLED (organic LED) displays offers users with a 5K resolution image that Vrgineers describes as “best-in-class”.
“XTAL’s new non-fresnel lenses will deliver a wider field of view and binocular overlap, a bigger sweet spot, and much less distortion compared to the existing model,” said VRgineers CEO Marek Polcak. “We’re getting ever closer to our goal—which is to make virtual reality indistinguishable from reality itself.”
Equipped with the world’s first ever automatic IPD system which automatically analyzes the user’s eyes and adjusts accordingly for perfect focus, the VR headset with 180° diagonal FOV alongside built-in sound card for spatial sound will enable a fully immersive experience.
Users can also control XTAL via the built-in voice recognition system and can interact in VR through the bare-hands Leap Motion sensor, eliminating the need for a physical interface.
Designed to allow users to wear glasses while using XTAL, a leather-padded interior makes the VR headset relatively comfortable to wear for long periods of time.
The first version of XTAL was released in the summer of 2018, and an updated version will debut at the 2019 CES expo in January. This new model updates the lenses, and owners of the previous XTAL will be able to upgrade their devices for free through the XTAL professional support package.
“We firmly believe XTAL will become an indispensable component of engineering, manufacturing, designing, and training processes, and enable you to do more while saving resources, money and time,” said Polcak.
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