Simula One

Milestones

Milestone: First Headsets Ship Target: Q4 2022 - Q1 2023

Our first batch of headsets is targeted to ship late 2022/early 2023. Preference will be given to Founders Edition units followed by the earliest pre-orders. Our preorder agreement guarantees headsets will ship by EOY 2023.

Milestone: Review Units Complete Target: May - June, 2022

We're aiming for (stripped down) review units to be ready by early summer.

#23 - Board Updates 2022-05-25

Progress made on VXR, Interposer, & I/O Boards.

#22 - Simula's Software Stack 2022-05-20

High-level overview of Simula's software architecture.

#21 - Latest Review Unit Print + VXR Board 2022-05-11

Showing off our latest review unit print and VXR board.

#20 - Paying for Productivity: Premium Workstations Over Time 2022-05-03

Chronicling premium workstations & first-in-kind computing hardware over time. We explore why consumers don't use premium workstations like they used to.

#19 - Review Units Progress 2022-04-29

Discussing progress made on our Simula One review units; includes headset prints and updated renderings.

#18 - Lenses & Schematics 2022-04-20

We run our newest lenses through some optical tests + show off our VXR7200 board schematics (now open-sourced).

#17 - Gramsy (YouTuber) Discusses Simula One 2022-04-13

Vlogger discusses the Simula One and some of its design tradeoffs.

#16 - How Long Until Review Units? 2022-04-07

We're releasing (stripped down) review units, likely within the next 1-2 months.

#15 - Upgrading to Alder Lake 2022-03-31

Simula is upgrading to 12th Gen Intel compute.

#14 - Demoing Our Displays 2022-03-24

Discussing the Simula One's display system

#13 - Camera Considerations: Resolution, Bandwidth, & Latency 2022-03-16

Discussing camera considerations for our front-facing AR Mode cameras.

#12 - How Simula's Optical Design Achieves its PPD 2022-03-09

How our lenses exploit the human eye to extract maximum pixel density from our displays

#11 - Preorders are now available! 2022-02-14

Kickstarter-style description of our headset

#10 - We're Launching This Weekend (With a Lower Price) 2022-02-11

Why we're hosting our own pre-orders instead of using Kickstarter. TLDR: Price reductions & greater flexibility.

#9 - Simula One Video Teaser 2022-02-03

Launch video for our preorder campaign

#8 - The Ghost Howls interviews Simula's team 2022-01-28

A virtual reality blog asks us questions about the Simula One

#7 - Why VR Computers are better than PCs & Laptops 2022-01-20

We spend all day working on our PCs & laptops, so if there really are benefits to working in VRCs, upgrading to one could have big impacts to our work productivity.

#6 - Why is the Simula One so expensive? 2022-01-13

Comparing the Simula One to premium laptops, standalone AR headsets, & VR headsets.

#5 - The Simula One's Pricing & Kickstarter Goal 2022-01-09

We discuss the pricing & campaign goals of Simula's imminent Kickstarter campaign.

#4 - How We Designed the Simula One 2022-01-02

History of how we came to our headset design

#3 - VR Comparison: Simula One vs. Valve Index vs. Quest 2 2021-12-26

Comparing Simula One's specs against the Valve Index & Quest 2

#2 - Technical overview of Simula's VR Computer 2021-12-11

Discussing the specs, performance, & design choices of Simula's VRC.

#1 - Simula One Teaser 2021-12-11

First teaser shot of the Simula One headset; waitlisters will start receiving weekly updates on our headset progress.

The Simula One is an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux Desktop. It provides comparable functionality to any Linux laptop or PC, but with the power of VR.

Persistent ("always on") computing wherever you are able to walk and think
10x+ more screens than PCs & Laptops
More work immersion/focus over PCs & Laptops
6DOF hand tracking
AR "Passthrough" Mode (see your keyboard/surroundings while working)
Connects with Bluetooth keyboards/mice via Bluetooth module
Contains the highly customizable, open-source SimulaOS

Headset specs

35.5 PPD
2448x2448 per eye display resolution
100° FOV
90 Hz refresh rate
55mm-77mm IPD
Features dual wide-angle high-resolution RGB cameras for AR passthrough
Supports Tethered Mode for gaming on other platforms (Windows/SteamVR)

Compute pack specs

i7-1265U Processor (12th Gen)
16 GB Memory
Iris Xe graphics
1 TB SSD
Wi-Fi 6
Bluetooth 5.2
3.5mm Audio Jack
Exposed ports: 1x USB4 (including Thunderbolt 4), 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2/DP Alt-Mode, 2x USB-A 3.2
Comes pre-installed with SimulaOS Linux VR distro

SimulaOS

SimulaOS provides the Simula One with a highly customizable, open-source VR Linux distro.

Compatible with any app that runs on Linux Desktop (apps like Firefox, LibreOffice, Emacs, Vim, ...)
Provides especially clear text quality (via our text-specialized rendering methodology)
Built on top of the Godot game engine
Comes pre-installed on the Simula One
Also works with the HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, & Valve Index

See SimulaVR's source on GitHub

This is not a gaming headset

Not a gamer? Never used VR before? No problem. While the Simula One supports tethered gaming, it is primarily a work-focused headset. Take it out of the box and start working in VR immediately.

Get more done with SimulaVR

Perfect remote work machine
Less distractions
Work in private no matter where you are
Work in The Future™

What people are saying

Dreamed about having this many times, and here it is: a VR 🕶️ window manager called Simula, by @georgewsinger. Makes it possible to have many screens, without having physical displays, pure awesomeness 🥷🤩 https://t.co/UhxpZqrcpI #vr #linux #windowmanager #godot #openvr
— rmi7.eth ⛷ (@__rmi__) July 28, 2020

Simula: A VR window manager for Linux https://t.co/tHaGjz77zv
— The Best Linux Blog In the Unixverse (@nixcraft) April 9, 2020

Exited to see concrete progress towards productivity computing in AR/VR space.

The "killer app" might just be "all the ones you already have". Getting rid of the boundaries of 2D screens will be the next revolution#SimulaVR #AR #VR https://t.co/SAALVQbRgh
— Gaby (@GitSquared) April 9, 2020

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