Avegant Glyph Headset Set To Ship Later This Year

When it comes to wearable technology and VR headsets, these two hardware niches look set to be on a growing and upward trend. Avegant themselves have come up with the Glyph headset that looks like a prototype for some sort of Star Trek device, and we are pleased to hear that production versions of the Glyph are being coddled into a late 2015 shipment, coming off on top of a successful Kickstarter campaign.

The Glyph will ditch the OLED display when it comes to providing an image, as it will rely on a couple of tiny DLP arrays instead to bounce light directly onto the wearer’s retinas. As the end result, you will be able to enjoy an extremely bright, pixel-free image complete with an extremely high effective refresh rate.

Avegant’s founder and chief strategy officer Edward Tang cited that Oculus did play a role in making such an idea explode across the consumer market, and we are wont to agree with that particular statement. Still, VR headsets will take some time before becoming commonplace in our everyday lives, if ever. You can place a pre-order for the Glyph for $499 a pop, although the final sticker price is said to increase to $599 after the middle of this month. Early bird, early worm and all that jazz.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gadgets
Tags: Virtual Reality (VR), Wearable Tech