It’s always amazing to see Kickstarter’s like this break their goal so quickly. Avegant recently opened up a Kickstarter for Glyph, a personalized mobile theater system. The headset basically works like an Oculus Rift, except it beams images directly into your eyeballs. No, really, the headset uses Virtual Retinal Displays which work to project images directly onto the retinas of your eyes. Supposedly, this will create “sharp, clear, stark images unlike anything you have seen before.”
As you could imagine, the Glyph is perfect for VR applications, and since it has a simple HDMI port it can hook up to anything that the Oculus Rift can. It even has a head tracker allowing it to instantly do all the stuff a normal head tracking headset would do. The difference is, you can take Glyph on the road. Just attach it to any mobile device and play whatever media you like.
The Glyph reached it’s $250,000 goal in a little less than four hours. That’s pretty impressive. At time of writing it has earned over $730,000. I guess it’s to be expected considering it takes a donation of at least $500 to be able to get a beta Glyph.
Source: Kickstarter