Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Occipital's Bridge Headset Is Available Now
..well not really


This headset is a first step for Apple into the AR world. Not a Hololens or the like, but rather a large, VR like headset that you plug your iPhone into. However, this headset does have cameras on it to give you the hardware you need for AR. The headset is $500. 

Occipital first made its presence known in the augmented and mixed reality scene when it initially Kickstarted the Structure Sensor back in 2013. They well surpassed their $100,000 goal, raising $1.29 million. They have since been busy building the software to power that sensor called Bridge Engine, which led to their VR Dev Kits earlier this year and, finally, to the Bridge headset.
Structure is a sensor array very akin to the Microsoft Kinect, but designed for use with Apple's mobile product line. Interested? Sorry, the Bridge Explorer Edition is currently sold out. They only released less than 100 for an iPhone 7, and just over 100 for an iPhone 6 or 6s (Plus sizes are not supported). The consumer version of Bridge will be available for $399. They missed their release date, but you can preorder right now.
I would guess you have to go through all the restrictions and cost to get the AR app on the app store. Hopefully not.