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Somnium VR1 Hands-on: Enthusiast Level PC VR at a Difficult Price Point (www.roadtovr.com)

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Somnium VR1 is a new PC VR headset that delivers an impressive field-of-view (FOV) and high-resolution displays, ideally appealing to enthusiasts already in the SteamVR tracking ecosystem looking for an upgrade, or businesses with the cash to splash. I got a chance to go hands-on at the company’s Somnium Connect event held in Prague, Czechia over the weekend, giving me my first look at the version heading out to customers that’s said to start shipping sometime this month.

The Prague-based company behind VR1 is best known for its metaverse platform Somnium Space, making it the first in what promises to be a series of large FOV headsets. It’s very well refined for a first device, owing to the company’s close partnership with XTAL, the Czech hardware manufacturer behind a series of high-resolution, high FOV enterprise XR headsets.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The difficult price point is starting at €1900, no eye tracking, no hand tracking. That is very difficult indeed. Visuals must be amazing for it to make sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pimax Crystal displays, chromatic aberration-free, large sweet spot lenses but especially passthrough mixed reality should be its USP. Probably not worth it unless you already have a visually detailed sim cockpit