RealWear Announces Navigator 520 Assisted Reality Enterprise Headset | ARPost - ARPost

RealWear’s Navigator bid of endeavor “assisted reality” headsets conscionable got bigger. The institution precocious announced the Navigator 520, an updated mentation of the bid flagship exemplary released conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago.

Improvements Due to New “HyperDisplay”

The RealWear Navigator 500 launched successful December of 2021 and it does what it was designed for well. But, successful XR, doing thing good is seldom utilized arsenic an excuse not to improve. As a result, you person to look beauteous intimately to announcement the differences betwixt the 500 and the precocious announced 520. At least, looking astatine it from the outside.

Looking astatine side-by-side merchandise images, you tin announcement that the Navigator 520 has improved oculus alleviation – that is to say, that the surface is farther from the wearer’s eye. In manufacture settings, this means that users tin spot much of their surroundings portion inactive getting what they request connected the display. It besides improves oculus comfort, which is important successful a instrumentality designed for all-day wear.

Of course, RealWear didn’t conscionable determination the aforesaid show and called it a caller product. The institution was capable to amended oculus alleviation by improving the show itself. The Navigator 520 features the company’s caller HyperDisplay exertion integrating a larger oculus container and a higher-definition surface with brighter colors.

“With the motorboat of RealWear Navigator 520 we’ve continued to enactment ourselves successful the shoes of a modern frontline nonrecreational who wants to enactment connected and empowered,” RealWear Chief Product Officer Rama Oruganti said successful a release. “This merchandise brings unneurotic a twelvemonth of large improvements and innovations connected the RealWear platform.”

The hardware similarities are a payment to the Navigator 520, arsenic the modular instrumentality is compatible with a fig of components and accessories already developed for the Navigator 500, including the voice-operated thermal camera announced by the institution successful November 2022.

Is Upgrading to the Navigator 520 Worth It?

Whenever an updated mentation of a standby comes out, determination are 2 earthy responses: excitement and skepticism. Is it worthy updating to the 520 if you already usage the 500? Is the 520 worthy the other wealth portion the 500 is inactive disposable for less?

There are demos that simulate the 520’s solution quality down the HyperDisplay nexus supra truthful you tin get an thought of the show changes. It’s besides worthy asking whether your peculiar usage lawsuit would payment from improved oculus relief. Are agelong shifts and situational consciousness symptom points successful your peculiar situation?

It’s besides worthy remembering that fixed the cross-compatibility betwixt the 2 devices, upgrading from the 500 to the 520 doesn’t needfully mean that you person to regenerate immoderate modules, accessories, and mounts that you whitethorn already beryllium using.

What is the outgo difference? The Navigator 500 is $2,500 and the Navigator 520 is $2,700. If you’re looking astatine getting started with RealWear, the quality whitethorn beryllium negligible fixed each of the improvements of the newer model.

If you already person a fleet of 500s, replacing them each could beryllium rough. However, replacing 500s with 520s arsenic needed mightiness beryllium the mode to spell fixed constituent compatibility. And, aft all, 1 twelvemonth seems to beryllium becoming the modular XR merchandise rhythm these days. RealWear headsets are built to last, but that doesn’t mean that the specs were ne'er going to spell retired of date.

Options for Improvement

RealWear is keeping up with the inclination successful XR wearables these days, namely releasing caller devices portion the erstwhile procreation inactive has a shelf-life. While this tin beryllium frustrating erstwhile it means replacing full fleets of units, the Navigator 520 successful RealWear’s merchandise operation provides flexibility for users astatine antithetic stages of instrumentality deployment.