Some updates from today’s live stream:
- 500 headsets produced (PVT batch), received first 100 devices end of March in Paris office, 400 in “two weeks or so”. 400 will go to backers, remaining ones going to important partners (e.g. SideQuest), pre-orders, etc. Some already shipped.
- Produced PVT headsets are “perfect” in terms of hardware, but they need to be re-calibrated at the Lynx office. Which takes time and thus slows delivery. More automated calibration coming for future headsets.
- Latest hardware version has fixed microphone issues
- Noisy fans are being worked on
- Lynx as a company was nearly done in January 2024, barely made it, but in much better position now.
- Partnership to be announced on 30 March, if everything goes well?
- Vuforia demo being developed
- Lynx will move to using StereoKit for some OS-level apps, such as the launcher, instead of current Unity-based apps
- Headsets still to deliver: kickstarter less than 1000 units, 2-300 pre-orders, corporate users 6-7000 headsets. July/August expected time-frame for corporate pre-orders. Expecting to deliver 20-30.000 units before switching to next hardware product
- Lynx will not work with Meta to have the just announced Horizon OS on Lynx
- Possible next live-stream on 1 or 2 May
- Lynx was not at the Laval Virtual conference, no time for it
- They acknowledge they are really bad at communication, or don’t put enough priority on it
- EC-funded XR2Industry project received 8M euros, with 5M euros being available for projects building on top of Lynx R-1, max 500kE per project (first call).
- Demos of Vuforia, StereoKit and shared-space medical app to be posted tomorrow. Clip of the StereoKit demo and Vuforia demo are already on YouTube.