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Leap Motion Announces North Star - Open-Source VR Headset With 100º FOV

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Leap Motion today announced their North Star project, an open-source approach to a VR headset that comes with some very impressive specs. For now, it's still in the prototype phase; but Leap Motion are pinning high hopes on the overall concept to come to fruition into a competitive market. The 100º degree FOV (Field of View) is already impressive, but alongside it come some more respectable features, such as resolution (1,600 x 1,440 per eye) and an extremely high refresh rate - set at 150 Hz. It wont be easy to power those specifications with current hardware and graphics technology.

But that's not all, and really couldn't be - this is Leap Motion we're talking about. The company's real move here is to integrate their motion technology with the VR headset, improving current technologies by a margin. Even better: Leap motion says a headset with the above specifications could likely be produced at scale for only $100 (though of course, the big question here is at what scale one would need to go to actually achieve that manufacturing price-point).





According to the company, "The coming of virtual reality has signaled a great moment in the history of our civilization", because "we have found in ourselves the ability to break down the very substrate of reality and create ones anew, entirely of our own design and of our own imaginations." That's a big endeavor, and a great way of describing it. Here's hoping the company can actually deliver.



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Isn't this an AR headset, not VR? For AR, a 100-degree FOV is rather impressive (Hololens has, what, 60?), but for VR? Not so much - 110 is pretty much the industry standard there, no?
 
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