VRFocus - The Avegant Glyph shot to fame with a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign that saw the company raise in excess of $1.5 million USD, despite the original funding goal being just $250,000. That success has not been left to wilt, with Avegant assuring that the Glyph will offer a high quality multimedia player experience. VRFocus recently spoke with Grant Martin, Head of Marketing at Avegant, to find out exactly how the company will deliver on that promise.
The Glyph looks like the insane image you see above — a ginormous pair of vaguely Beats-esque headphones that you wear with the band over your eyes. It looks like a cast-off prop from the 1995 movie Johnny Mnemonic. It costs an exorbitant $699.
The Avegant Glyph is a screen that you wear on your face. That’s the simplest way to describe it. The whole device looks like a pair of outsized Beats headphones, complete with a huge chunky body and thick plastic headband; the parts that go on your ears are indeed headphones, but that huge headband hides a 720p DLP screen (though "screen" isn’t quite right, as we’ll see) and the optics necessary to make the display work.
Avegant is showcasing its new product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Originally backed by Kickstarter, the startup is releasing its Glyph media player that doubles as a headset.
I remember the time watching such things in a Sci-Fi when I was a kid and thinking of them as something miraculous and impossible! I don't deserve to call myself an engineer now... :P
