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where is the price?

It's still not finished. Around $2k with the expectation of running a Kickstarter when issues are ironed out, according to the previous HN thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691358

Ouch 2k.. I don't see that ever working except for a niche product. The max I've ever spent on a monitor is 300 euro (and that was a nice 4K display!). Hardware is just a really hard market to get into, especially when there's already other players that have the scale advantage.

It's a _standalone_ headset, though... so more equivalent to spending 2k on a laptop.

But do your 2D programs actually run on the headset?

As far as I understood it, it was more of a front-end for local processing. Like the Quest does to power its wifi and local rendering when using Virtual Desktop, but the actual programs are streamed from the computer?

As I understand it, the headset on its own is not meant as a computing device as-is but needs to be paired with a Linux PC.

They actually run on the headset. It's a full laptop equivalent.

Ok I misunderstood the concept then!

That makes the price a lot more palatable indeed.

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