From https://stan.sh/2024/12/11/the-next-step :
No matter what will happen and what you can learn/speculate from it, these are my words:
Lynx is still committed to the same mission: unlock the best Mixed Reality experiences with amazing devices and OS-level integration for spatial computing.
We are not acquired, nor did a new fundraising. The team is still in place, and still working on exciting new projects and supporting the existing Lynx-R1.
Good to hear.
For the R1, we are shipping now the last hundreds of devices going to our community (you should see the shipping emails before the end of this week), and will refund the few who asked, as previously declared. We needed a bit more time than anticipated after this summer as the company faced some challenges in 2023 and 2024.
Well, that would be great, but let’s see if this indeed happens as promised.
Tomorrow, exciting news will occur for everyone in the AR/VR (still small) world. Lynx is involved and some pieces of something we’ve been working on for a few months will be revealed.
This is the Android XR announcement, as also mentioned in Android XR Announcement, by @WilcoBoode. From https://www.uploadvr.com/sony-lynx-xreal-android-xr-devices/ :
Meanwhile, Lynx tells UploadVR that while its existing R1 headset will remain “as is”, it is building a new headset that will run Android XR.
That raises some questions, as it’s unclear if Lynx can still provide an open headset when based on Android XR? And would such a headset be tied to Google’s services (and data usage, etc)?