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In short: Wow! I hope they manage to pull off everything. Seems to have great potential to become a huge hit. One question: How did you experience going full VR with those pads? Did they cover enough to prevent light leaks as well as Quest 2 does with VR Cover?
Stop and realize just how incredible it is for such a small team with a limited budget to be able to design and manufacture a headset thats first to have several features and in many ways more advanced than other headsets on the market.
Yes, it is quite an impressive price especially as they have two LCD panels compared to only one that the Quest 2 has. Varjo can learn a few things about pricing from them.
limited budget means: lost deadlines, quality control issues, software problems, lack of support, etc... it is a startup and the product will feel like a prototype(if they even manage to ship it)... maybe in 2-3 generations we will see an actual consumer level product
@@cristalumati They have a working unit - and that was before their successful kitckstarter funds thats almost double what they were hoping for. Its not going to be easy but they have proven to be a amazing team - and a team that is now funded.
"Open metaverse," as in *not* FB/Ready Player One advertisement overload.. Lynx needs all of us to help re-normalize the notion of privacy where not necessary to invade for safety. ( Also new to channel and your method is appreciated :> )
About time VR headset manufacturers started taking advantage of lenses to manipulate light more creatively, seems like a very untapped area atm. Also good to see some fresh blood among all these old giants in the VR market arena.
I'm a Lynx backer and really appreciated this insight from you. A lot still to come and difficult to predict how certain features will turn out but I feel I've seen enough to be reassured by the headset and the team behind it. Thanks for the video.
Have you sculpted or drawn something in VR?? My Mom loves to draw and sketch, etc. I would like to introduce her to VR but not sure which apps for artists are high quality.
Detachable/swappable back battery would also be awesome for longer playtimes 😎 it would cost a little more, but it would go a long way and make it more appealing for us consumers.
Using a portable battery on the Quest consumer version 1 causes that headset to get hot and heat is bad for the battery and kills its lifespan, it would be great if they found a way to kill the built in battery while you have a portable battery plugged in, and kill that damn screen door effect and everyone would be really happy with vr I think.
I get what you are saying but it's hard to get excited about this when a high-end colour passthrough headset is being developed by Reality Labs which has millions of dollars in investment. I'm talking about of course Project Cambria. This is a great initiative and they have seen a door open in the market to exploit colour passthrough technology but it's one that's going to be firmly shut once Project Cambria is released next year.
@@dtrjones Project cambria is facebook, and there's always an audience for quality hardware that doesn't sell everything and your soul for revenue, so no, lynx will be fine IMO
My recommendation would be to make the battery to be easily swappable (so you can have 2 or 3 even or allow for 3rd party ones back there. On the other hand😲 Wow! I wanted a battery as a counter weight since quest 1 days for weight distribution, and as soon as you showed the unit I thought 🤔 side magnet covers would be awesome 😎 then you showed it. I would get it for PCVR and the counter weight feature... Standalone would be a great bonus for me. Looks like they got pretty far already, and the fact that they invited you with no restrictions says alot. I'm down for that... I hope they take as long as necessary to iron out most bugs. For once! a headset I can get behind from this startup. 😊
Yes, this exactly! Aside from the headset, they gave a very good vibe and seem genuinely passionate about wanting to improve the VR industry. Too bad not everything was working yet, but I have faith they can fix it.
@@CasandChary You guys are awesome, and please pass onto them about making the battery in the back swappable... That would be a great feature for longer playtimes. Btw... You guys have a great channel and I'm happy they chose you as the first to review this early prototype.
This seems like the perfect headset for me as a VR developer. Easy to code with this thing on my head, flip it up and down while testing, etc... Might just have to kickstart this one :)
Ultraleap has had this hand tracking tech (their Orion API) since 2016. I’m absolutely astonished that they haven’t partnered with any big brands AND that said big brands have such terrible hand tracking solutions compared to leap’s 5-year-old tech. Nice to see them finally properly integrated into a headset. OGs remember velcroing a leap motion controller to the front of an oculus CV1 to play the 3 supported demos
Still have my leap motion sitting on my desk after digging it out a few months ago to remind myself that I wasn't crazy and that it really is better than the Quest 2 hand tracking. Excited to see their tech finally go beyond a neat demo.
@@tiredlocke I have even tried it with the quest 2. I belive that its better because it has it own infrared emitters hence its own light source. So no matter what direction you face you alwasys have a light source coming from the same direction.
I’m really on the edge about this product, I love a lot of what I’m seeing and I feel like I should encourage companies like Lynx to push for an open and transparent future for XR, but even with the money they’ve raised I can’t tell how confident to be with how their team will deliver the hardware on time and an OS and make it so developers can use it. That’s a really tall order. Do you guys think they’re gonna hit the mark?
I believe so. A reassuring thing is knowing about the composition of their team, among which many veterans from other headset hardware companies like StarVR A lot of their work is integrating together existing & proven state of the art technologies from ultraleap, qualcom etc So much less risk with building from scratch But I think beyond that, there’s the open values aspect you mentioned We’ve seen the VR community curse the fact that Facebook is taking over followed by other tech giants, fir months & months And now a company like Lynx has decided to take the risk they weren’t obligated to by going consumer instead of the more secure enterprise market, all to influence the future of XR in a better direction It up to us, the community now, to follow words with action
I have a similar feeling about this. Especially I wonder how good they can pull off mass production and support customers. But the product looks promising!
my feeling is that Stan and Lynx team will be more transparent and communicative than say Deca has been with their DecaGear. but there are three significant headwinds that they are fighting against: 1. chip shortage possibly not likely to ease up until 2022 at the earliest. again they have a good relationship with Qualcomm so they may have lined out enough to get through the KS. but it might be that something unexpected happens. if a particular chip or subchip isn't in stock there could be a long wait. 2. fluctuating power outages in China are delaying all kinds of production from factories. not likely to be solved anytime soon but doesn't affect all provinces all the time. 3. Covid-19 - variations could muck up the timeline as well. on the positive side Stan has said that as they get closer to production they will have a significant quantity of employees travel to Taiwan to personally oversee the production process and QA the units coming out of the factories in China. i have faith that he's going to do his best and his team are very experienced as well. it's not exactly two guys in a garage who have no idea about manufacturing products. but there will likely be delays of one kind or another. i don't think they will take a year but it might slip by a couple of months.
@@scottr.looney1774 even slipping by a couple of months couple really screw them, this product’s place in the market is already a hard sell with quest taking up the consumer market, AR apps already being bulit for other ecosystems since this is a new platform entirely and other new headsets coming out from valve and oculus. I love what they’re doing, but if they’re any later to market they’re going to look seriously unattractive to VR focused consumers with the resolution, price, and brand new ecosystem. I want lynx to win, it’s just that the odds are stacked against them - even if they get headsets out on time, they still need to sell enough to make newer versions almost immediately, or at least sell enough to get their investors to help them. The price of a unit on kickstarter, as much as i want one, is too much money for me personally if there’s a decent chance it shows up super late or no headset shows up at all. ugh, please convince me to buy one!!
@@alectrem well the way i think about it Oculus was a startup that came out of nowhere and proved that there was a market out there for VR, where nobody thought there was. Magic Leap got a lot of folks excited about the possibility of mixed reality (MR) at the consumer level and got tons of funding, which led to a lot of innovative design, even if the product itself didn't succeed as a consumer device. if Lynx can show that they have a better product in certain ways that could be enough to get funding to continue. i know the market is tight and yes delays aren't going to help them, but they do have better hand tracking than most, currently - esp in their price range. a KS backing always includes a certain amount of risk, and this is no exception. and i've already backed a product that will ship late due to Covid (Tilt5 glasses) so i'm aware of the risks. but i do believe in Stan and i think he's assembled a team of veterans in the XR field that just might have built a better mousetrap. and do NOT underestimate the desire for a FB alternative. HTC just whiffed with the Flow which won't go anywhere IMO, and Aero is way out of the pocketbook range. as for Deckard it's certainly enticing, depending on price point, but i have seen no information that shows this product to be ready in time to compete with any upcoming Oculus product. it may not be here for another year or it may arrive anytime. but still, throwing up a bunch of cheap VR headsets to compare entirely misses the point for what the Lynx is likely to really good at doing which is MR based interaction. and yes that's in a nascent form at the consumer level, but you have to start somewhere. and in terms of MR, no device comes close to it price wise. if what you're looking for is a VR alternative to FB then maybe this isn't the only game in town, and it might not be the best product. but for AR/MR it seems to be well priced. now all we need to find out is if there's a market at the consumer level.
"Our love for you is stronger". This is the only LCD screened headset I've heard of that I have any interest in at all. If I can afford too, I'll likely get one? Very exciting!
I went to an event one with an AR and VR demo approximate didn't get to use the we the virtual reality demo but it was able to use the augmented reality demo this brings back some good memories
Thanks great video, and good timing with all the other VR stuff happening this month. It was good to see behind the scenes, and how far they have come. Hope it all comes out as they expect. Waiting with anticipation for this to hit
i liked the video...i had always the wish to make a startup like this (at least the five or more last years), and of course it's a pleasure to watch that by the great couple of yours!!!
While it's not for me I really like what they are doing as a company and a design team. They came out with a product that seems like it will be more polished and feature rich at launch than Vive flow and with the ability for it to adapt to different types of use cases all for the same price as a huge company that released a tone deaf product. If the screens were a little higher resolution I'd say this is perfect for what it's intended to be.
Very interesting, I would like to know more when you know it. I hope the IPD adjustment gets attention. I really want to know what kind of store they come up with.
Stan is sound. You can tell that it's being created by people who love VR/AR/XR. It's nearly ready now, and from what I've heard their passthrough is much better than the Quest Pro. I think their hand tracking will be better as well.
Great video! Happy you were able to get such and early look and the real life issues during a first impression lends both credibility to your video and the honesty of Lynx. I cannot wait for more Lynx content so I hope they ship you one!
This is about what I was expecting from your visit and it brings comfort as a Kickstarter backer of the special edition one that the team is as open as they are about the project. As it and the company matures, it can become something really great!
I have been waiting for some videos from vr reporters on this before committing to kickstarter. If they wanted to do this right, they should have sent every big youtuber a prototype to test it tbh.
I don't think they have time for that considering how small the company is and how much they are trying to get done. They have two more youtubers on the way so I personally think they're doing fine on that front
I've backed the Lynx R1 and am hyped for it. A lot can be done in 5 months but I very much doubt it will be ready by then. I think the April 2022 date is not realistic so I take it with a grain of salt. As with all kickstarters I support I dont expect it to be available at the given date, April 2023 would make more sense to me (as an outsider). I guess it's a self defense mechanism to avoid dissapointment.
They can't get the tolerances right hand making them. I expect to see dramatic improvements with initial samples from their manufacturer. I'm confident the hardware will be ready by April '22, but the software has a long way to go. They don't even have an SDK out yet.
A game "a la" pokemon go for Augmented Reality would be pretty damn cool. If headsets could get light enough to wear while actually running, I could see something like at the beginning where the coins were being collected as being a good way to get some people motivated to exercise again by "gamifying exercise". It would also be neat to put gps into the headsets, and then you could track your jogs. On the display it could show a red line on your path if you're behind pace, or a green line if you were ahead of your normal pace... just some thoughts. But it would be so cool. Another idea, so that screens wouldn't get scorched by the sun, they could put a pressure plate on the face covering or something so that it only opens up an iris door when your face is inside the headset. Even a mechanical switch you could toggle would be nice, but people are lazy, so I say automate it. Of course, that adds complexity though...
If you can adjust the position of the lenses then this absolutely needs to be done on the outside of the headset rather than requiring you to do it when you're not wearing the headset or whatever. This is the same issue with the Quest 2, where you can't set the lenses while wearing it, so you keep going back and forth taking it on and off until you figure out what setting works for you, and it's just a total pain in the ass and design fail imo. A simple dial or two on the outside top of side of the headset for moving the lenses would just make far more sense in every way--we had this on first-gen headsets so it's really annoying that any more recent headsets don't have it--until we get to the point where the lenses are self adjusting using eye tracking and the like, as the new Varjo Areo does.
I'm very interested in buying this headset! I wonder if you can get full body linked as well? I like my slime trackers and would like to use them if I got the headset.
They need to put motors in the hey adjustments so they automatically alighn with your retinas. That would be a game changeer for passing the headset to a family member and not stuffing around.
A automatic ipd adjustment system would require a eye tracking camera that they cannot add because of the that they already use the maximum number of camera that the xr2 chipset can support simultaneously without external peripheral by usb-c, but I agree that it would be a great addition to this headset
Very interesting. A lot of technology packed inside the headset. I like everything about it but there seems to be a lot of work left to do and I'm not sure if they can make it in time. Still fingers crossed and I'm curious what will be the end product.
This could be the Quest alternative that we've all been waiting for, providing it can get the app support which I imagine won't be too difficult with OpenXR. The lenses look interesting but I do wonder how glass's users (such as my self) will get on, and what the screen resolution is going to be like considering its split into 4 to make the lenses work.
I have a WMR (no base stations) headset, and tracking for Steam games is fine. My headset ranks the worst in tracking when hands are at full extension from the headset (up close the tracking is as good or better than most) -- at full range the variance is only about a centimeter, which really doesn't amount to much, so I wouldn't worry about the hand tracking in Steam.
Very nice, competition is very good. But personally I'd prefer to spend those 500 euro on Quest 3 that will also surely have color passthrough and a guaranteed future/support
That's a shame that you weren't able to see more, I've been following this for over a year and I really wanted to know if this could replace a tablet (In terms of convenient video viewing, browsing, messaging) and being a VR headset with handtracking. Really wanted to know about the capability of the software and how they plan to set a standard for hand controls.
@@collinlohmann5592 Yeah but I want to know if I can use the Lynx as an, essentially, independent computer. The flow are glasses connected to a phone and a battery pack i.e. not an independent device; my expectation of the Lynx is a what AR has been advertised as for a while, a computer that I can control without physically touching a keyboard, mouse or controller while still being able to see my environment. There apparently isn't software that's ready to be shown for that specific case which disappoints me and makes me think that I'm gonna have to stream stuff to the device using virtual desktop or something.
The headset has officially released now, maybe someone knows why haven't there really been any reviews since? It's possible they made changes between this review and the final release
The problem is their supply chain.Can they get the materials,and most important,the chips to build their units and fulfill their orders.I really hope they do,because right now the standalone VR market is ruled by the Oculus and it would be great for some serious competition to come along.
looks great, but I really wish they were doing what valve is and went with a x86 main cpu. As it is with their own operating system they're just going to be another console that you have to hope games you like get ported to or they'll get exclusives. Hopefully more headsets like this will at least enable the split rendering functionality valve is trying to create for their headset so maybe these other headsets can work with the steamdeck.
Your videos are awesome, an excellent mix of technical details and layman/user observations that is uniquely informative. This looks pretty incredible and thank you for reporting on it. As an individual who uses such devices as much for movies on an airplane as I do for any gaming/productivity purpose, can these hook up to an external battery, and how is the media consumption on these devices?
Most likely not without hacks similar to Reverb G2. If VR gaming is your thing then compatible controllers are sold separately. By default this is more a damn good AR device with handtracking.
It is nice, BUT....... a HMD without Software (you can use during your day) is unusable. I don't want to play with it, but i want to use it as a Videoplayer, a Navigationsystem, a Picture-App, etc. If this is not included in the software, than this product is only for developers..... and i think, they should say that!
well Stan has said that they are in talks with Sidequest to use their store, or possibly to create their own if that option doesn't work. also with more development fast moving towards standardizing on Open XR i think porting to other platforms like this will be much easier. but Stan is keenly aware that a store will be needed by launch.
Very well made informative video. Such a great channel. If what someone wrote in the comments below that the FOV is only 90, that's a deal breaker for me. Im wondering how it looked to you compared to the Rift S?
The lens does increase the perceived resolution in the middle and makes the headset thinner. As I understand it, the multi-channel design is even more light-efficient than a pancake design like the one in the Vive Flow, while being similarly compact
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How was the FOV compared to the Quest 2?
In short: Wow!
I hope they manage to pull off everything. Seems to have great potential to become a huge hit.
One question: How did you experience going full VR with those pads? Did they cover enough to prevent light leaks as well as Quest 2 does with VR Cover?
The practical aspects (balance, flip-up screen, compact lenses) are all very important to me. Hoping they succeed 👍
Stop and realize just how incredible it is for such a small team with a limited budget to be able to design and manufacture a headset thats first to have several features and in many ways more advanced than other headsets on the market.
Well, I get what you're after, but I'm sure they're actually outsourcing the manufacturing.
Yes, it is quite an impressive price especially as they have two LCD panels compared to only one that the Quest 2 has. Varjo can learn a few things about pricing from them.
limited budget means: lost deadlines, quality control issues, software problems, lack of support, etc... it is a startup and the product will feel like a prototype(if they even manage to ship it)... maybe in 2-3 generations we will see an actual consumer level product
@@cristalumati They have a working unit - and that was before their successful kitckstarter funds thats almost double what they were hoping for. Its not going to be easy but they have proven to be a amazing team - and a team that is now funded.
@@brettcameratraveler hope so
"Open metaverse," as in *not* FB/Ready Player One advertisement overload.. Lynx needs all of us to help re-normalize the notion of privacy where not necessary to invade for safety.
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About time VR headset manufacturers started taking advantage of lenses to manipulate light more creatively, seems like a very untapped area atm. Also good to see some fresh blood among all these old giants in the VR market arena.
I'm a Lynx backer and really appreciated this insight from you. A lot still to come and difficult to predict how certain features will turn out but I feel I've seen enough to be reassured by the headset and the team behind it. Thanks for the video.
Good luck to Lynx, small determined companies should always be allowed to compete with the big players if they are determined enough!
This looks awesome. I am a 3D sculptor and I see an exciting future for this.
Have you sculpted or drawn something in VR??
My Mom loves to draw and sketch, etc. I would like to introduce her to VR but not sure which apps for artists are high quality.
Detachable/swappable back battery would also be awesome for longer playtimes 😎 it would cost a little more, but it would go a long way and make it more appealing for us consumers.
Using a portable battery on the Quest consumer version 1 causes that headset to get hot and heat is bad for the battery and kills its lifespan, it would be great if they found a way to kill the built in battery while you have a portable battery plugged in, and kill that damn screen door effect and everyone would be really happy with vr I think.
Super stoked for the lynx. Great to see the development in real time. Cant wait to try my teeth at developing apps for the platform
YES! I can't wait to hear more about devs thoughts.
I get what you are saying but it's hard to get excited about this when a high-end colour passthrough headset is being developed by Reality Labs which has millions of dollars in investment. I'm talking about of course Project Cambria. This is a great initiative and they have seen a door open in the market to exploit colour passthrough technology but it's one that's going to be firmly shut once Project Cambria is released next year.
@@dtrjones Project cambria is facebook, and there's always an audience for quality hardware that doesn't sell everything and your soul for revenue, so no, lynx will be fine IMO
I love to see something with so much potential from a small startup! Can't wait to see where it goes
My recommendation would be to make the battery to be easily swappable (so you can have 2 or 3 even or allow for 3rd party ones back there. On the other hand😲 Wow! I wanted a battery as a counter weight since quest 1 days for weight distribution, and as soon as you showed the unit I thought 🤔 side magnet covers would be awesome 😎 then you showed it. I would get it for PCVR and the counter weight feature... Standalone would be a great bonus for me. Looks like they got pretty far already, and the fact that they invited you with no restrictions says alot. I'm down for that... I hope they take as long as necessary to iron out most bugs. For once! a headset I can get behind from this startup. 😊
Yes, this exactly! Aside from the headset, they gave a very good vibe and seem genuinely passionate about wanting to improve the VR industry. Too bad not everything was working yet, but I have faith they can fix it.
@@CasandChary You guys are awesome, and please pass onto them about making the battery in the back swappable... That would be a great feature for longer playtimes. Btw... You guys have a great channel and I'm happy they chose you as the first to review this early prototype.
Very impressive looking. I'm surprised we haven't heard about the company being acquired about something bigger yet.
The ceo has promised that he won't sell purely because he wants lynx to be an alternative to facebook products
This seems like the perfect headset for me as a VR developer. Easy to code with this thing on my head, flip it up and down while testing, etc... Might just have to kickstart this one :)
I can't wait for mine to be delivered. I jumped on the kickstarter day 1.
Ultraleap has had this hand tracking tech (their Orion API) since 2016. I’m absolutely astonished that they haven’t partnered with any big brands AND that said big brands have such terrible hand tracking solutions compared to leap’s 5-year-old tech. Nice to see them finally properly integrated into a headset. OGs remember velcroing a leap motion controller to the front of an oculus CV1 to play the 3 supported demos
Still have my leap motion sitting on my desk after digging it out a few months ago to remind myself that I wasn't crazy and that it really is better than the Quest 2 hand tracking. Excited to see their tech finally go beyond a neat demo.
@@tiredlocke I have even tried it with the quest 2. I belive that its better because it has it own infrared emitters hence its own light source. So no matter what direction you face you alwasys have a light source coming from the same direction.
I remember buying a leap to emulate the index controllers
I’m really on the edge about this product, I love a lot of what I’m seeing and I feel like I should encourage companies like Lynx to push for an open and transparent future for XR, but even with the money they’ve raised I can’t tell how confident to be with how their team will deliver the hardware on time and an OS and make it so developers can use it. That’s a really tall order. Do you guys think they’re gonna hit the mark?
I believe so.
A reassuring thing is knowing about the composition of their team, among which many veterans from other headset hardware companies like StarVR
A lot of their work is integrating together existing & proven state of the art technologies from ultraleap, qualcom etc
So much less risk with building from scratch
But I think beyond that, there’s the open values aspect you mentioned
We’ve seen the VR community curse the fact that Facebook is taking over followed by other tech giants, fir months & months
And now a company like Lynx has decided to take the risk they weren’t obligated to by going consumer instead of the more secure enterprise market, all to influence the future of XR in a better direction
It up to us, the community now, to follow words with action
I have a similar feeling about this. Especially I wonder how good they can pull off mass production and support customers. But the product looks promising!
my feeling is that Stan and Lynx team will be more transparent and communicative than say Deca has been with their DecaGear. but there are three significant headwinds that they are fighting against:
1. chip shortage possibly not likely to ease up until 2022 at the earliest. again they have a good relationship with Qualcomm so they may have lined out enough to get through the KS. but it might be that something unexpected happens. if a particular chip or subchip isn't in stock there could be a long wait.
2. fluctuating power outages in China are delaying all kinds of production from factories. not likely to be solved anytime soon but doesn't affect all provinces all the time.
3. Covid-19 - variations could muck up the timeline as well.
on the positive side Stan has said that as they get closer to production they will have a significant quantity of employees travel to Taiwan to personally oversee the production process and QA the units coming out of the factories in China. i have faith that he's going to do his best and his team are very experienced as well. it's not exactly two guys in a garage who have no idea about manufacturing products. but there will likely be delays of one kind or another. i don't think they will take a year but it might slip by a couple of months.
@@scottr.looney1774 even slipping by a couple of months couple really screw them, this product’s place in the market is already a hard sell with quest taking up the consumer market, AR apps already being bulit for other ecosystems since this is a new platform entirely and other new headsets coming out from valve and oculus. I love what they’re doing, but if they’re any later to market they’re going to look seriously unattractive to VR focused consumers with the resolution, price, and brand new ecosystem. I want lynx to win, it’s just that the odds are stacked against them - even if they get headsets out on time, they still need to sell enough to make newer versions almost immediately, or at least sell enough to get their investors to help them. The price of a unit on kickstarter, as much as i want one, is too much money for me personally if there’s a decent chance it shows up super late or no headset shows up at all. ugh, please convince me to buy one!!
@@alectrem well the way i think about it Oculus was a startup that came out of nowhere and proved that there was a market out there for VR, where nobody thought there was. Magic Leap got a lot of folks excited about the possibility of mixed reality (MR) at the consumer level and got tons of funding, which led to a lot of innovative design, even if the product itself didn't succeed as a consumer device. if Lynx can show that they have a better product in certain ways that could be enough to get funding to continue. i know the market is tight and yes delays aren't going to help them, but they do have better hand tracking than most, currently - esp in their price range.
a KS backing always includes a certain amount of risk, and this is no exception. and i've already backed a product that will ship late due to Covid (Tilt5 glasses) so i'm aware of the risks. but i do believe in Stan and i think he's assembled a team of veterans in the XR field that just might have built a better mousetrap. and do NOT underestimate the desire for a FB alternative. HTC just whiffed with the Flow which won't go anywhere IMO, and Aero is way out of the pocketbook range. as for Deckard it's certainly enticing, depending on price point, but i have seen no information that shows this product to be ready in time to compete with any upcoming Oculus product. it may not be here for another year or it may arrive anytime. but still, throwing up a bunch of cheap VR headsets to compare entirely misses the point for what the Lynx is likely to really good at doing which is MR based interaction. and yes that's in a nascent form at the consumer level, but you have to start somewhere. and in terms of MR, no device comes close to it price wise.
if what you're looking for is a VR alternative to FB then maybe this isn't the only game in town, and it might not be the best product. but for AR/MR it seems to be well priced. now all we need to find out is if there's a market at the consumer level.
"4 fold catadioptric freeform prism lens" is certainly a mouthfull
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@@CasandChary They need to just coin a term like 4-Cat lenses or something like that.
Great to see.
Any competition to Facebook is welcome.
Best of luck.
I got flying drones in mind with this with osd information where the drone is on the air from far away in AR mode. Then switch to drone fpv view
I hope that more headsets start coming out with the Lynx R1's design
They will if the Lynx R1 is successful, or maybe even if it isn't but has good performance
"Our love for you is stronger".
This is the only LCD screened headset I've heard of that I have any interest in at all.
If I can afford too, I'll likely get one?
Very exciting!
I went to an event one with an AR and VR demo approximate didn't get to use the we the virtual reality demo but it was able to use the augmented reality demo this brings back some good memories
This headset would be perfect for sim racers and sim pilots who want their rig in the game!
Thanks great video, and good timing with all the other VR stuff happening this month. It was good to see behind the scenes, and how far they have come. Hope it all comes out as they expect. Waiting with anticipation for this to hit
i liked the video...i had always the wish to make a startup like this (at least the five or more last years), and of course it's a pleasure to watch that by the great couple of yours!!!
What a great opportunity you had to be the 1st. I hope they get things worked out because it sounds and looks amazing.
While it's not for me I really like what they are doing as a company and a design team. They came out with a product that seems like it will be more polished and feature rich at launch than Vive flow and with the ability for it to adapt to different types of use cases all for the same price as a huge company that released a tone deaf product. If the screens were a little higher resolution I'd say this is perfect for what it's intended to be.
imagine doing hand signs from your favorite anime to do spells in game or basic system shortcuts. 😍😍😍
Your channel is amazing!!!!
Aww thank you so much
@@CasandChary Keep making the amazing content see ya 🤗
Very interesting, I would like to know more when you know it. I hope the IPD adjustment gets attention. I really want to know what kind of store they come up with.
Thanks, I will! It's such an interesting company/device to watch and I am curious to see what the display is like with the right calibration.
I believe they are in talks with SideQuest
Great that we got such a good review in its development stages, you are awesome!
Stan is sound.
You can tell that it's being created by people who love VR/AR/XR.
It's nearly ready now, and from what I've heard their passthrough is much better than the Quest Pro. I think their hand tracking will be better as well.
Great video! Happy you were able to get such and early look and the real life issues during a first impression lends both credibility to your video and the honesty of Lynx. I cannot wait for more Lynx content so I hope they ship you one!
This is about what I was expecting from your visit and it brings comfort as a Kickstarter backer of the special edition one that the team is as open as they are about the project. As it and the company matures, it can become something really great!
Pack in 6 months of a "Cloud PC service with the purchase and you might have a Quest killer here.
That's a good idea, I'm sure Lynx will read this ;)
Even 3 months or one, Just enough to get your feet wet and have a swappable back battery for longer playtimes 😎 would be appealing.
I have been waiting for some videos from vr reporters on this before committing to kickstarter. If they wanted to do this right, they should have sent every big youtuber a prototype to test it tbh.
I don't think they have time for that considering how small the company is and how much they are trying to get done. They have two more youtubers on the way so I personally think they're doing fine on that front
wow those lenses are wild.. I would love more in-depth info about that
Can't wait to develop AR projects for this headset, I hope they ship to germany
Thank you for this - I was glued watching you from start to end!
This peak at the current process looks AMAZING
I'm intrigued about the math for the split image-one lens system
I wish all the best for this incredible team! Their VR headset looks very promising
So, a micro "Hololens". Interesting. I think it's pretty nice.
Im very interested in the headset, AR/VR looks amazing!
I've backed the Lynx R1 and am hyped for it. A lot can be done in 5 months but I very much doubt it will be ready by then. I think the April 2022 date is not realistic so I take it with a grain of salt.
As with all kickstarters I support I dont expect it to be available at the given date, April 2023 would make more sense to me (as an outsider). I guess it's a self defense mechanism to avoid dissapointment.
They can't get the tolerances right hand making them. I expect to see dramatic improvements with initial samples from their manufacturer. I'm confident the hardware will be ready by April '22, but the software has a long way to go. They don't even have an SDK out yet.
Pretty hyped to see where this goes! I'm sure atleast one of the devs are reading these comments- keep it up!
Thank you
A game "a la" pokemon go for Augmented Reality would be pretty damn cool. If headsets could get light enough to wear while actually running, I could see something like at the beginning where the coins were being collected as being a good way to get some people motivated to exercise again by "gamifying exercise". It would also be neat to put gps into the headsets, and then you could track your jogs. On the display it could show a red line on your path if you're behind pace, or a green line if you were ahead of your normal pace... just some thoughts. But it would be so cool. Another idea, so that screens wouldn't get scorched by the sun, they could put a pressure plate on the face covering or something so that it only opens up an iris door when your face is inside the headset. Even a mechanical switch you could toggle would be nice, but people are lazy, so I say automate it. Of course, that adds complexity though...
The Lynx headset looks great!
I am very willing to pay more for a headset with good specs and freedom from F***Book.
XR2 processor is same as Quest 2, but 1600 pixel is less than Quest 2.
Great video. It was very reminiscent of watching Palmer Luckey with the DK1 before release. This looks very promising.
You really cover the interesting stuff - good work! :-)
I haven't backed the Lynx, but I want them to succeed so bad. Just the form factor alone is very promising. Those lenses look bananas.
If you can adjust the position of the lenses then this absolutely needs to be done on the outside of the headset rather than requiring you to do it when you're not wearing the headset or whatever. This is the same issue with the Quest 2, where you can't set the lenses while wearing it, so you keep going back and forth taking it on and off until you figure out what setting works for you, and it's just a total pain in the ass and design fail imo. A simple dial or two on the outside top of side of the headset for moving the lenses would just make far more sense in every way--we had this on first-gen headsets so it's really annoying that any more recent headsets don't have it--until we get to the point where the lenses are self adjusting using eye tracking and the like, as the new Varjo Areo does.
I'm very interested in buying this headset! I wonder if you can get full body linked as well? I like my slime trackers and would like to use them if I got the headset.
They need to put motors in the hey adjustments so they automatically alighn with your retinas. That would be a game changeer for passing the headset to a family member and not stuffing around.
A automatic ipd adjustment system would require a eye tracking camera that they cannot add because of the that they already use the maximum number of camera that the xr2 chipset can support simultaneously without external peripheral by usb-c, but I agree that it would be a great addition to this headset
This would have been awesome if provided with some VR gloves like Lucid VR ones.
Great info thanks for posting, loving how VR/AR is progressing in the world. :D
Very interesting. A lot of technology packed inside the headset. I like everything about it but there seems to be a lot of work left to do and I'm not sure if they can make it in time. Still fingers crossed and I'm curious what will be the end product.
thank you so much keep doing what you doing amazing work really really appreciate it, love and light
I want this form factor for all headsets.
This could be the Quest alternative that we've all been waiting for, providing it can get the app support which I imagine won't be too difficult with OpenXR.
The lenses look interesting but I do wonder how glass's users (such as my self) will get on, and what the screen resolution is going to be like considering its split into 4 to make the lenses work.
Those lenses look crazy
I have a WMR (no base stations) headset, and tracking for Steam games is fine. My headset ranks the worst in tracking when hands are at full extension from the headset (up close the tracking is as good or better than most) -- at full range the variance is only about a centimeter, which really doesn't amount to much, so I wouldn't worry about the hand tracking in Steam.
rly sad that “transparency” is now an actual selling point for VR
Looks rly good tho! Will wait for full review to compare against the Deckard
It's honestly a selling point for any company. Not just VR.
Interesting lenses, and I like the vibe they seem to have. I'd be curious to try it out in the future.
this is soooo coool!!! they are basically just like how oculus started at the beginning. cant wait to see this product and its team grow!!
Very nice, competition is very good. But personally I'd prefer to spend those 500 euro on Quest 3 that will also surely have color passthrough and a guaranteed future/support
So it seems that it's possible to walk without problems with headset on. I am visual impaired and I hope that this headset can help me to see better.
The basic is about $850 Canadian i think. I doesn't say if it's US or CAD.
It looks cool, but to pricy as a quest 2 upgrade for now.
That's a shame that you weren't able to see more, I've been following this for over a year and I really wanted to know if this could replace a tablet (In terms of convenient video viewing, browsing, messaging) and being a VR headset with handtracking.
Really wanted to know about the capability of the software and how they plan to set a standard for hand controls.
The new HTC vive flow is being marketed as a light vr headset for media viewing
@@collinlohmann5592 Yeah but I want to know if I can use the Lynx as an, essentially, independent computer.
The flow are glasses connected to a phone and a battery pack i.e. not an independent device; my expectation of the Lynx is a what AR has been advertised as for a while, a computer that I can control without physically touching a keyboard, mouse or controller while still being able to see my environment.
There apparently isn't software that's ready to be shown for that specific case which disappoints me and makes me think that I'm gonna have to stream stuff to the device using virtual desktop or something.
Look promising. I think i will get one of that
The headset has officially released now, maybe someone knows why haven't there really been any reviews since? It's possible they made changes between this review and the final release
Looks pretty unique and functional to me ! Sure, let’s us know how this project matures….. VR on ! 😊
The problem is their supply chain.Can they get the materials,and most important,the chips to build their units and fulfill their orders.I really hope they do,because right now the standalone VR market is ruled by the Oculus and it would be great for some serious competition to come along.
This is awesome! Hopefully this company succeeds.
looks impressive and well worth watching that space
Woah that is very cool
Looks good so far. Thanks Cas. 👍🏻
Great report!
4:09 What is the line? "Yes, I got this as a piece, two parts of"?
I got it as a gift, super awesome
looks great, but I really wish they were doing what valve is and went with a x86 main cpu. As it is with their own operating system they're just going to be another console that you have to hope games you like get ported to or they'll get exclusives. Hopefully more headsets like this will at least enable the split rendering functionality valve is trying to create for their headset so maybe these other headsets can work with the steamdeck.
Love it! Hope guys will succeed! 🤞
I think it looks awsome. And they seem to be onto an awsome product.
Great informative video. Thank You !!
Your videos are awesome, an excellent mix of technical details and layman/user observations that is uniquely informative. This looks pretty incredible and thank you for reporting on it. As an individual who uses such devices as much for movies on an airplane as I do for any gaming/productivity purpose, can these hook up to an external battery, and how is the media consumption on these devices?
important for the metaverse
I subscribed because of this video 👍🏼
immersive pokemon and yugioh AR here we come!!!
The price will go up after the Kickstarter
Looks great! I can't wait to see how the final, polished version will turn out!
Does the Lynx R-1 work with Index controllers?
Most likely not without hacks similar to Reverb G2. If VR gaming is your thing then compatible controllers are sold separately. By default this is more a damn good AR device with handtracking.
It is nice, BUT....... a HMD without Software (you can use during your day) is unusable. I don't want to play with it, but i want to use it as a Videoplayer, a Navigationsystem, a Picture-App, etc. If this is not included in the software, than this product is only for developers..... and i think, they should say that!
well Stan has said that they are in talks with Sidequest to use their store, or possibly to create their own if that option doesn't work. also with more development fast moving towards standardizing on Open XR i think porting to other platforms like this will be much easier. but Stan is keenly aware that a store will be needed by launch.
Very well made informative video. Such a great channel. If what someone wrote in the comments below that the FOV is only 90, that's a deal breaker for me. Im wondering how it looked to you compared to the Rift S?
This looks like the vive flow but like WAYYYY better.
April 2022 feels like eons now.
actually i wanna buy this
I would love to see the specs so i can compare it to oculus, their quest 2 is pretty hard to argue with
love you 2!
The weird optics are implemented to better use the resolution and space on the display?
The lens does increase the perceived resolution in the middle and makes the headset thinner. As I understand it, the multi-channel design is even more light-efficient than a pancake design like the one in the Vive Flow, while being similarly compact
Looks really promising! Hope the name Lynx ain’t a jinx (hey, I’m a poet!).
Hi to your cat.
What all is in the back of the unit?
This thing have more power than the quest?