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.
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.
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
Wired: When I put on the Glyph, the $699 headphones-meets-face-computer headset Avegant’s been working on, Ed Tang didn’t put on a game. Avegant’s founder and chief strategy officer didn’t drop me in some immersive other world, where I could look around and explore or interact with a robot. He put on The Avengers.
