Sony’s standalone XR headset for enterprise CAD now has a value and launch month.
The Sony SRH-S1, because it’s now being known as, will probably be obtainable for companies to buy from January 23 for $4750, and can begin transport a while in February.
The headset was first introduced eventually 12 months’s CES. It is powered by Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset (additionally being utilized in Samsung’s headset), options 3552×3840 micro-OLED shows, has colour passthrough, and makes use of a halo strap with a flip-up design.
In contrast to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, Sony SRH-S1 contains controllers – one held for pointing and drawing, and one other worn as a hoop – which allow “intuitive interplay with 3D objects and exact pointing.”
The flagship use case for SRH-S1, in its present iteration a minimum of, is Siemens’ NX Immersive Engineering industrial CAD software program suite. This contains NX Immersive Explorer, NX Immersive Designer, NX Immersive Collaborator:
- NX Immersive Explorer is a “headset-agnostic resolution that designers and engineers use to conduct casual design opinions and collaborate utilizing 3D CAD information derived from Siemens’ NX software program for product engineering”.
- NX Immersive Designer “permits designers and engineers to work together, manipulate and collaborate round graphically wealthy 3D product fashions natively in NX”, completely supporting the Sony headset’s pointer and ring controllers.
- NX Immersive Collaborator “builds on the capabilities of NX Immersive Explorer and Designer to permit organizations of all sizes to reap the benefits of each co-located and distant design assessment with a number of individuals”, letting individuals be part of “utilizing native VR or desktop view”.
Arms-On With Sony’s Standalone XR Headset, XYN
Sony branded its standalone headset XYN, and we went hands-on with the newest prototype at CES 2025.
I say that is the present focus “in its present iteration” as a result of at CES 2025 this week, Sony additionally showcased what seems to be the identical headset {hardware} underneath a brand new model, “XYN” (pronounced zin). Underneath the XYN model, Sony’s headset seems to be concentrating on a wider vary of 3D creation than simply industrial CAD, together with film studio productions. Nonetheless, Sony’s web site lists the SRH-S1 underneath the Siemens partnership as “powered by XYN”, so it is unclear precisely what the branding state of affairs is right here, and whether or not the headset would possibly launch to prosumers underneath the XYN model at a extra accessible value level.
We have reached out to Sony straight for readability on the SRH-S1 and XYN branding state of affairs, and can replace this text if we get a response.
