Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has introduced he’s working on a brand new head-mounted show (HMD) for each army and non-military use.
Throughout a fireside chat at the 2024 Augmented World Expo (AWE), Luckey was upfront that the headset could be “pushed” by army necessities however have the flexibility to do non-military stuff.
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“…I am really constructing a brand new headset proper now,” Luckey defined throughout the panel. “It is pushed by army necessities, however it’s additionally going for use for non-military stuff. And it is actually cool, it is actually one thing.”
Luckey teased earlier this month that he was working on a brand new HMD and would formally announce the system at AWE. Nevertheless, the extent to which the headset could be utilized in a non-military capability was not additional elaborated on.
Luckey is well-known within the digital actuality trade for releasing the Oculus Rift digital actuality headset. Luckey based Oculus in 2012; roughly two years later the corporate was acquired by Meta (then referred to as Fb) for $2 billion. In 2017, Luckey left Fb. Neither social gathering defined Luckey’s departure, however it got here amid controversial political donations throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Following his departure from Fb, Luckey co-founded Anduril Industries, a army protection know-how firm. Luckey not too long ago dipped his toes again into the buyer {hardware} area, as earlier this month he revealed the ModRetro Chromatic, a $199 handheld formed like a GameBoy that includes a backlit show and the flexibility to play Recreation Boy, and Recreation Boy colour cartridges. Like its competitor, the Analogue Pocket, the ModRetro Chromatic helps FPGA-based emulation.
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