About: A breakthrough in 3D visualization, the Wide5 Head Mounted Display is the first display that is fully immersive and practical; lightweight and comfortable, works with standard laptops or basic PCs, all for the same cost as “tunnel vision” narrow field of view HMDs. The only display in the world with an ideal combination features, performance, quality, and value.
WIDE5 HMD Specs and Info…
Device: WIDE5 HMD
Manufacturer: Fakespace Labs
Announced Date: June 2007
Release Date: Unknown
Launch Price: Unknown
Device Type: VR Headset (PC Powered)
Display: x2 LCD Panels at 1600 X 1200 (Per Eye)
Diagonal Field of View(FOV): 150°
Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
Weight: 970 g (2.13 lb)
CPU: N/A
GPU: N/A
Battery: N/A
Tracking: 3 DoF Non-positional (Gyroscope Based)
Controllers: N/A
Our Thoughts: The WIDE5 is an HMD (Head Mounted Display) from Fakespace Labs. With a very much industrial aim, it has stats that are bang up to date here in 2015! But it’s main feature is all in its name. The massive 150° Ultra Wide Field of View is something that blows many headsets out of the water.
Daniel Small from Sandia National Laboratories said this about it:”The most exciting development I have seen in VR in the last 20 years.” which is strong praise indeed from someone who works with this kind of tech day in and day out. I don’t think us public should be getting too whipped up as it will be a long time before tech this good is affordable. Given that this device was made in 2006 it is quite frankly a technological milestone of a headset that I’m sure a lot of the wide FOV headsets like the Star VR use to
Sources used…
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070628152532/http://www.fakespacelabs.com/Wide5.html