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- Valve discontinues the Valve Index
- HTC confirms it is still making base stations
- Valve may be working on an OLED Steam Frame
- PSVR 2 has been delisted on the US website of PlayStation Direct
- Vector Gear open headset is now on Kickstarter!
You can find these and all the other coolest AR/VR news of the week in my latest roundup!
skarredghost.com/2026/10/19/…
#VirtualReality #MixedReality #Valve #technology
Why can’t you make a VR headset the same way you’d make a desktop?
We @ Walker Industries are proud to release the Vector Gear and Andromeda, now live on Kickstarter!
- The Vector Gear: Standalone + PC VR, 105° FOV, 85Wh silicon battery @ $980 USD
- The Andromeda: PC VR with a 2560×2560 OLED per eye and and 95° FOV pancake lenses @ $1,250 USD
- A second Andromeda comes with 1600x1600 TFT LCDs for DIYers looking to mod for cheap exists! 105° FOV.
All come with face tracking, an inside out tracked headset and controllers, auto IPD, Wired + Wireless PCVR capability by default. We've made or are developing most of the techstack ourselves from the ground!
And most importantly? They are fully yours. Mod them, open them up, run your own software. We want to see the craziest, whackiest or more expressive things you can do to make your headset yours!
We want more games, less gambles. You are free to completely replace the hardware and software; it's YOURS!
We’ll open source most of it over time.
Too pricey? You can pay in 3 payments at checkout!
With this, we aim to work with our international manufacturing partners to assemble and send the headset from Hakodate, Japan and prove that hardware can still be inherently human! We also want to handle things like
- Face tracking dataset tailoring
- Finalizing hardware
- Testing the quality of a few manufacturers and optimizing assembly
Watch the 14m project intro video:
youtube.com/watch?v=E4WOb-OG…
Back it: kickstarter.com/projects/wal…
After 9 years of walking this path and with the help of the amazing people @ Prominence, the Vector Gear is now at the point where we can start crowdfunding!
Thank you to everyone who's supported and watched this journey.
kickstarter.com/projects/wal…
#vr #diy #vrc
Special thanks to everyone who came to support the Vector Gear and try the XRUIOS @ #TGS2026 this year!
We unfortunately kind of forgot to take more photos 😅 BUT at this point are fully focused on releasing the crowdfunding campaign!
More info to come.
9 years ago I saw SAO Ordinal Scale and thought the Aguma should be in every household. The Hololens was the only real thing out at the time so I got to work.
2 weeks ago I got to showcase the prototypes with friends at #TGS2026 while meeting some really cool people!
Going to @tokyo_game_show this year?
A few of us will be there showing off the Andromeda alongside other headsets like the Vector Gear Prototype (Our flagship) and the XRUIOS WIP!
Come find us at the indie area 👀
This is the Andromeda, a headset we've been developing for months
That's all I'm saying for now 👀
In ~2 days, we'll show more.
WIP 2560×2560 Pancake Displays + Inside-Out Tracking + Auto IPD & Face Tracking
Learn more: vectorgear.xyz
Footage By Manolo!
#vrc
Les controleurs Andromeda de @Walkerindllc pour le casque Vector Gear.
vectorgear.xyz/
youtu.be/BiaVex9seJE
Standalone, PCVR and emulation.
- Eye, mouth and full face tracking
- Inside out headset + controllers
- 2160×2160 per eye @ 90Hz
- Colour passthrough, auto IPD
- Open, repairable, $980
vectorgear.xyz
#VR #VRChat #PCVR #SteamVR #OpenSource #Kickstarter
Le Vector Gear est un tout nouveau casque en préparation par Walker Industries.
Une récente entreprise qui publie des travaux en open source (eye tracking par ex)
Le casque est prévu en 3 itérations et se focalise sur le PCVR sans fils.
walkerindustries.xyz/the-vec…
Love it when our stuff gets public!
The next version will be closer to the Steam Frame's controllers in design
An open-source VR controller: supports SteamVR, enabling finger tracking and inside-out positioning.
youtube.com/watch?v=BiaVex9s…
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コントローラーに搭載されたカメラ2台によるSLAMでインサイドアウトトラッキングを行うVRコントローラーのDIYプロジェクト
(インデックススタイルの指トラ付き)
Andromeda Controller Devkit V0.4
youtu.be/BiaVex9seJE?si=lKVn…
A quick video showing you how the Vector Gear's prototype is put together!
Learn more @ vectorgear.xyz
Quick update on progress with our headset! Introducing MilkyWay, the driver built specifically for the Andromeda alongside the Vector Gear!
It supports inside out tracking from not just the headset but the controllers as well!
Special thanks to Strings for their hard work!
Pariah Cybersecurity v3 - "Chroming the F$!? Up"
Pariah was made under the belief that PQC Resistant cryptography shouldn't be something you have to fight to get working; the v3 update adds to this with a new cache system, hardware based anti tampering and more!
Still open source and free, forever!
View the code below:
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