New VR glasses are waiting for us in 2021: from ambitious points for gamers to VR headsets for social interaction.
In 2020, the release saw a few VR points, including a self-contained Quest 2 Oculus from Facebook and HP G2 Reverb. Some new VR glasses, scheduled for release in 2021, has already been announced or known from the leaks before, including a self-contained headset for businesses, inexpensive quality glasses for gamers and two social VR glasses.
Decagear
Release: Jun 2021 Price: $ 450.
In October 2020 startup Megadodo announced their glasses for PC VR Decagear. Glasses should combine the high resolution display, an improved controller and VR with face tracking and thighs at a low price.
Decagear offers two LCD display with a resolution of 2160 x 2160 pixels for eyes and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. The distance between the lenses can be adjusted with a mechanical controller in the range from 62 to 72 mm. The special design of the lenses should provide a viewing angle of about 120 degrees.
Four cameras track record the spatial movement of the head and controller. Tracking inside-out developed Decagear. Two more cameras on the inner and bottom sides of virtual reality glasses also have to pass a facial expression of the owner on the avatars of virtual reality.
Face plate attaches to the housing with magnets and is easily removable. The separately available wireless module must also allow the VR gamers to enjoy gaming without wires.
In addition to VR-glasses, the kit includes two controllers that ensure tracking of the fingers due to 96 sensors and attached to the hand straps. The rest of the ergonomics are reminiscent of the touch controller and the Oculus.
Tracker DecaMove, which is also included in the kit can be attached to the pants and determines the direction in which the user’s gaze, regardless of points VR. This should make virtual movement and interaction more flexible.
Full points SteamVR, including the controller and tracker are pre-sold to customers for only $ 449. The wireless module will cost an additional $ 49.
Delivery Decagear scheduled for may 2021, according to the manufacturer, the first prototype will be presented in the spring of 2021. You can find all the information in a large overview article on Decagear .
HTC “Proton” and Vive Focus 2
Release: 2021 Price: no data
On new glasses VR from HTC is little known. But one thing is clear: HTC wants to release new devices in 2021. In the beginning of 2020 HTC has introduced a thin VR glasses codenamed “Proton”, which at that time was planned in two versions: a self-contained device such as the Oculus Quest 2, and the device that connects to your smartphone, which is used in Cakste player.
In December 2020, the President of HTC in China Alvin van Greylin again confirmed in an interview that HTC will be releasing a new pair of glasses on the market and compared them with the first points Vive:
“I think it will be a revolutionary device that will please people in the same way as the first Vive. I’m very excited about what lies ahead of us, and I think that it will raise the industry to a new level.”
Greylin did not disclose more details, but the results of the tests for points HTC with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2, which is also used in the Oculus Quest 2, was leaked in September. So HTC is probably working on a self-contained device.
Perhaps this is the successor of Vive Vive Focus and Focus Plus, which as a competitor to the Quest 2 can also be aimed at end users. It was not clear whether that device points to “proton”. The device’s futuristic look was first shown as a design prototype at CES 2020.
Lynx-R1
Release: March or April 2021 Price: $ 1,500.
French startup Lynx has demonstrated its self-sufficient mixed-reality glasses Lynx-R1 in February 2020 and wanted to release them before the end of the year. Due to problems with delivery built-in cameras tracking Lynx has delayed the release of XR points to the end of the first quarter of 2021. Target group for VR glasses with AR function — area B2B.
The main applications of the Lynx-R1 — transparent mixed reality glasses built in HDR cameras transmit images to the displays, built-in thin flip down visor. In XR mode optical module with a width of almost two finger hangs before the eyes of the user.
To make the transition between the display and the outside world more exciting, Lynx relies on a new lens design (“4x catadioptric prism of arbitrary shape”) with horizontal and vertical field of view 90 degrees. The external world can be shielded for virtual reality applications using the optional bezel.
In the optical module has two built LCD display that provide a resolution of 1600 by 1600 pixels on an eye with the refresh rate of 90 Hz. Mechanical control allows you to set the interpupillary distance 56 to 70 millimeters.
The Qualcomm chip XR-2 XR embedded in glasses, provide an additional modem 5G. Lynx-R1 can also be connected to a PC via USB C. Glasses allow you to track the movement of eyes and hands.
The output of Lynx-R1 is planned for March or April 2021 and are available for pre-order for $ 1,500. For more information, see about the technical details Lynx-R1 .
Mova
Release: 2021 Price: $ 599.
In may 2020, the company XRSpace, the startup of the former head of HTC Peter Chou, announced a new VR glasses: Mova. Autonomous glasses VR based on the chip Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 and use two cameras on the front for track space and hands. Mova offers a resolution of 1440 by 1440 pixels per eye field of view of 100 degrees and is equipped with 64 gigabytes of memory.
Mova offers access to shopping Oculus or HTC. Instead, it is a portal into the social world of virtual reality World Manova also developed XRSpace. This should convince end-consumers and companies to buy eyeglasses Mova.
Significantly higher price compared to the Oculus Quest 2 with a worse hardware and software needs to be subsidized in the framework of cooperation with such companies as Deutsche Telekom. The exact details are not known yet.
Currently undergoing beta testing world of social virtual reality. All the information about the glasses and Manova VR World you can find in the article .
Nolo VR
Release: 2021 Price: no data
This year at CES 2021 Chinese specialist in virtual reality Nolo presented self-contained virtual reality glasses. The device features two front facing cameras to track room and hands. Two controller, reminiscent of the controllers of Oculus Touch can be read using the solutions for ultrasonic tracking, in-house developed.
The exact specifications and price points VR is still unknown. The device also has no name. This is a good reason: Nolo produces a VR system as ODM — interested companies can order the glasses and then sell them under their name.
Nolo itself at an early stage has created accessories for 6DoF tracking for mobile virtual reality glasses such as the Samsung Gear VR. Recently, the manufacturer showed Nolo X1, self-contained VR glasses with XR1 chip from Qualcomm. New points can now be based on the chip XR2, which is also built into the Oculus Quest 2.
Unai
Release: unknown Price: unknown
Literally in January of this year startup Unai.one introduced social VR glasses Unai. This is the latest project from the inventors of the points Relativty open source.
Unai glasses should provide the most realistic social interaction in VR worlds created by Unai. For this VR glasses use two cameras to track the face and seven additional cameras to monitor the space and body.
Unlike Mova or Quest 2, Unai relies on graphically complex social worlds that run on the Unreal Engine. The calculation of this graphically impressive environments should be performed with external unit that connects to Unai points without cables.
A prototype yet, so VR glasses probably will not until the end of 2021 — if they appear at all on the market. While the concept seems quite interesting.
