"The price of Lynx-R1 is raised to US$1,300, and start-ups are refocusing their focus and returning to the commercial field"

Lynx-R1 price will rise from $850 to $1,300 as startup shifts focus.

The helmet focuses on color perspective mixed reality and hand tracking with an open peripheral design and high-resolution camera. Like other standalone headsets, it runs a modified version of Android and supports OpenXR content.

The Lynx-R1 was initially announced as a $1,500 enterprise product in 2020, but in 2021, the company announced a radical strategic shift, eliminating eye-tracking to dramatically lower the price and offering it to consumers for "just a few hundred dollars" through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.

The startup is now essentially reversing that strategy and is once again "primarily targeting" corporations, which it claims have become the majority of its buyers.

in one articleYouTube Live StreamingandSummarizing Blog PostsIn it, the startup's founder, Stan LaRocque, blamed the price hike on rising manufacturing costs and the need to return relatively low volumes.

Existing Kickstarter backers and pre-orders will still receive the helmet at the price they paid, Lynx said, but the price will soon increase to $1,300 for new orders.

However, the first backers to receive their helmets may find that their microphones don't work. In an email, the company warned backers that "our first shipments are far from perfect, and we wanted to make you aware of two minor issues: aesthetic damage to the faceplate and a non-functioning microphone," but claimed that it will offer affected customers a "free replacement option" in the first quarter of 2024. ".

Lynx-R1头盔配备了双1600×1600的LCD面板和首代Snapdragon XR2芯片，该芯片也用于Quest 2和PICO 4。最初计划于2022年4月发货，但经过四次宣布延期后，该头盔终于在今年8月开始发货。

Lynx has also been working on its own optional tracking controllers, which were originally planned to ship to Kickstarter backers at the same time as the helmet. But the startup says they had to redesign them to "improve accuracy and versatility" and are now scheduled to ship in the third quarter of 2024.

如果按时发货，Lynx-R1本可以成为第一个具有色彩透视混合现实的消费级独立头盔，从而成为消费市场的重要参与者。但由于延迟，它被Meta的Quest Pro赶上市场，而且随着Quest 3下周发货，价格只有500美元，而芯片性能提高了一倍，Lynx-R1很快将不再具备对消费者的竞争力。

Even at the new $1,300 price tag, Lynx claims the helmet's open-periphery and balanced design and rear-mounted battery make it more attractive to many businesses, while its higher-quality perspective makes it more appealing than the Quest Pro.