Sol Reader is a VR headset exclusively for reading books

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18 points·GordonS··9 comments

"The displays are 1.3-inch, e-ink displays with 256×256 per-eye resolution"

I'm really having trouble visualizing this, wouldn't the resolution on this be...really really bad? Like "word at a time" bad?

Oculus Quest 1 had a resolution of 1440 × 1600/eye.

Right, but aside from head tracking and asynchronous timewarp, one of the main innovations oculus brought to the table was the extremely high FOV of 106°.

If FOV at that resolution is a normal book, like 5-10° it's on par with like, a Kindle.

No, recent kindles are 300 ppi and have screens a few inches across and several inches tall. Paperwhite 5 is 1236×1648

yeah but they're sooo much farther away from your eyes than the glasses will be...idk I'm not convinced but it tracks...I did some layouts in figma and it seemed you could fit about a paperwhite page. ugly text, but it works

> Sol reader’s remote control looks slick, although I’m curious why the company didn’t choose to use eye-tracking as a control mechanism instead.

It's a $350 lightweight headset with 25 hours of battery life and no cameras. Do you really have to ask?

How is there not one mock-up of what it looks when you’re looking into it…

Probably because it looks horrible.

There is on their web page

Techcrunch made a mistake with their headline, this is not a VR headset.

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