Avegant Glyph

Jan. 18th 2016

I finally got the chance to try out an Avegant Glyph at CES 2016. Design wise it’s brilliant and looks like a lot of thought went into making a nice product. Making it look like headphones is clever. The image quality was very good as well as audio. There was some stray light bouncing around that lowered the contrast a bit. No pixels to be seen. However field-of-view was very small at a reported 40 deg. diagonal. Resolution is 1280×720 per eye. It had IPD adjustments and focus adjustments. It runs on a battery for a full mobile experience. Avegant is positioning this as a mobile media player to down play the smaller FOV. It’s the first DLP consumer HMD that I’m aware of and that makes it very unique on its own.

It’s now priced at $699, which makes me wonder who will buy it as a mobile media screen. However, Avegant is probably the Apple of mobile media HMDs right now. If this HMD would have come out even 5 years ago I think it would have sold like crazy. But now-a-days 1280×720 and 40 deg. diagonal FOV seems old. Now given the FOV, they don’t really need more resolution but I’d like to see wider FOV and 1080p displays. Texas Instruments (TI) is now advertising their new 1080p DLP chip with up to 86 degree diagonal FOV according to their DLPA051.pdf application note, so I’m guessing that’s where Avegant is headed next. The original Avegant Glyph images are even shown in the TI app note a couple times. This wider FOV and higher resolution HMD will be very slick if it’s in the same type of package as this first Glyph. Looking forward to seeing that one.

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Hi, my name is Kevin Mellott. Virtual Reality is one of my major passions. My original Mellott’s VR Page was started on Geocities in 1998 as part of a class project. Much of the original content is still maintained on this site for reference. This new website is intended to give the older site a new look and allow me to expand with new projects in the future.