What makes Beyond the smallest and lightest shipping VR headset is the same reason it takes longer to ship. Each unit has its lenses fixed to match the distance between the customer’s eyes and a face pad molded to the shape of their face, based on the iPhone face scan they provide when ordering.
When Bigscreen started shipping the first Beyond headsets to preorder customers just over one year ago, new orders faced many months of waiting from submitting the scan to having the headset, with even preorders slipping by months.
If Beyond’s claim of now shipping within one week of the scan is true, it represents a significant milestone for custom-fitted headsets.
That’s one way to kill the reseller market for your product.
Have any youtubers or such done a teardown? This seems tempting but I’m concerned about what ways it could be expected to break in, and how user repairable it is. Also specifically requiring an Iphone for the face scan is a bit tedious since I haven’t used one since the original model and I don’t know anyone that has a new enough model.
Every time i ask someone how they like it they say: “im getting used to it”
I really wanted this to be my headset.
I have come so close to buying it but there are so many issues.
Im not trying to relive CV1 god rays and I cant stand the idea of sending the thing back several times to get the ipd right.
I adjust my ipd differently for racing versus other games. This would drive me crazy. Id probably buy it if there was some way to calibrate it myself.
The headset could have still been tiny with a good quality universal cushion and ipd slider but what do i know.
And the audio headstrap probably should have been more central to the design. Why does it sit on-ear? The clear winner is the float-over-ear design. Cant blame such a small and new company too much but i like complaining.
