{"id":130400,"date":"2021-11-11T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/halfdive-vr-headset-takes-design-cues-from-sword-art-online-nervegear-coming-to-kickstarter-in-december"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:22:31","slug":"halfdive-vr-headset-takes-design-cues-from-sword-art-online-nervegear-coming-to-kickstarter-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/halfdive-vr-headset-takes-design-cues-from-sword-art-online-nervegear-coming-to-kickstarter-in-december","title":{"rendered":"HalfDive VR Headset Takes Design Cues from \u2018Sword Art Online\u2019 NerveGear, Coming to Kickstarter in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/halfdive-vr-headset-takes-design-cues-from-sword-art-online-nervegear-coming-to-kickstarter-in-december2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese startup <a href=\"https:\/\/diver-x.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diver-X<\/a> is looking to launch a SteamVR-compatible headset that seems to be taking a few ideas from popular anime<em> Sword Art Online,<\/em> which prominently features a fully immersive metaverse. While it\u2019s not a brain-computer interface like the \u201cfull dive\u201d NerveGear featured in the show, the heavy-weight hardware presents a pretty interesting approach to VR headset design.<\/p>\n<p>Called HalfDive, the Tokyo-based company says its taking advantage of the sleeping position to \u201cenabl[e] human activity in its lowest energetic state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since it\u2019s worn laying down, the creators say they\u2019re freed from many of the design constraints that conventional VR headset makers are used to pursuing with the introduction of things like pancake optics and microdisplays. Since the weight isn\u2019t on your neck, it doesn\u2019t have to be light or slim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese startup Diver-X is looking to launch a SteamVR-compatible headset that seems to be taking a few ideas from popular anime Sword Art Online, which prominently features a fully immersive metaverse. While it\u2019s not a brain-computer interface like the \u201cfull dive\u201d NerveGear featured in the show, the heavy-weight hardware presents a pretty interesting approach to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}