We haven’t heard a lot about Sony’s SRH-S1 standalone MR headset over the previous yr, which the corporate revealed at CES 2024. Now, the enterprise-focused system has an official launch date and value.
Launched in collaboration with Siemens, the soberly-named Sony SRH-S1 is about to launch someday in February 2025, priced at $4,750, which the businesses are squarely aiming at enterprise. Orders start on January twenty third, 2025, purchasable immediately via Siemens.
Whereas beforehand pitched final yr to attraction to creatives, Sony and Siemens are clearly focusing on industrial use circumstances; the businesses say SRH-S1 will “allow the commercial metaverse” and improve product design and manufacturing via Siemens’ set of high-fidelity combined actuality instruments.
Providing 13.6MP (3,552 × 3840) per-eye utilizing Sony’s personal ECX344A OLED microdisplay and a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, the headset additionally packs in what Sony calls a “proprietary rendering expertise” for real-time 3D object rendering.
As a combined actuality system, Sony’s SRH-S1 additionally consists of passthrough video, a flip-up visor, and a novel pair of ergonomic controllers designed for intuitive 3D interactions, introduced within the type of a stylus-type pointer and ring.
Over the previous yr, Siemens has additionally refined its set of enterprise-focused Immersive Engineering instruments, which goal to let SRH-S1 customers design 3D property in CAD, work together with fashions, and remotely conduct multi-user design evaluations by way of Siemens’ cloud-based NX X platform.
“After previewing the HMD at CES final yr, our collective groups have constructed a set of instruments that revolutionize how combined actuality is used within the engineering area – to not solely help world collaboration based mostly on high-fidelity 3D fashions, however to allow co-creation immediately on very important 3D CAD knowledge in a managed, safe setting,” stated Bob Haubrock, senior VP of Product Engineering Software program at Siemens Digital Industries Software program.
This follows the announcement at CES this week that Sony is about to launch a creative-focused headset for prosumers, known as XYN, which for now doesn’t have a value or launch date. Whereas Sony is staying tight-lipped on XYN, which is claimed to be a prototype at this stage, it seems to certainly be a variant of SRH-S1, denoted externally by its black colorway compared to SRH-S1’s gray design.
