An Austin-based startup best known for its virtual and mixed reality workspace software Headsets from other companies now have their own hardware. The Immersed Visor appears to be somewhere between a Vision Pro Lite and an Xreal Plus: a lightweight, head-worn device that creates a high-resolution spatial computing environment at a low cost (well, relatively speaking).
After being teased for months, Immersed founder Renji Bijoy has finally… Uncovered The Visor, at an event in Austin on Thursday, is a device that’s a little more than glasses but much less than a full helmet, offering each eye the equivalent of a 4K OLED display. It has a solid 100-degree field of view. It supports 6DoF tracking (meaning it responds to movement on different axes, not just simple head rotations), and offers hand and eye tracking and support for more than five displays in a VR or mixed reality environment.
At the presentation, Bijoy revealed that the Immersed Visor weighs just 186g, slightly less than an iPhone 16 Pro. It’s 64 percent lighter than the Meta Quest 3 (515g) and around 70 percent lighter than the Apple Vision Pro (600 to 650g). Weight and ergonomics have been drawbacks for many early adopters of VR and mixed reality technology. includes (Some customers of the $3,500 Vision Pro.) So reducing the weight of the Visor to about the same as a high-end smartphone could, in theory, Which helps it succeed where its competitors failed. Part of that is (to borrow a trick from Apple) a wired battery that slips into your pocket.
But unlike those devices, the Immersed Visor doesn’t include an app store or built-in experiences like games. Instead, it’s designed for work: Plug it into your Windows, macOS, or Linux computer (wirelessly or wired) and get stuff done on its immersive set of virtual displays. Its 6DoF tracking means you can stand, tilt, or turn, and the virtual displays will stay planted where you put them, rather than awkwardly following you around the space.
Much like the company’s workspace app for Meta Quest and Vision Pro, you can work in a swipe-through view of your space, or in a completely virtual view (including nice virtual environments, like a mountaintop ski resort next to a cozy fireplace). You can also work with others in a shared space.
The device is powered by the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 chip, which debuted at CES 2024. The chip supports up to 4.3K resolution per eye and can handle content at up to 90 fps.
Immersed has chosen an unconventional pricing scheme. The device starts at $1,050 to buy outright. But you can get it for $400 upfront if you agree to a subscription model: $40 per month for 24 months or $60 per month for a 12-month period. Oh, and that The model doesn't ship until “six months after” October, so April 2025. If you want a device that starts shipping next month, i.e. the “Founder's Edition,” that price increases to $1,350 outright or $700 plus the monthly subscription fee (the same prices as the later-shipping version).
In theory, the Immersed Visor could be an ideal meeting point for the many spatial computing-curious who want something that’s cheaper than the Vision Pro, with a higher resolution than the Meta Quest 3, and that’s (perhaps) less beta-like than Xreal’s augmented reality headset. Whether it succeeds in those regards, well, we won’t know until we have some time to test it. As far as I can see, no major media outlets (including Engadget) have shared any hands-on demos of the device. As this year’s wave of absurdly hyped ai gadgets reminded us, big promises mean nothing if you end up with a $1,000 paperweight.
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