A headset is not a screen in a plastic shell. It is an optical system, a tracking system, a thermal system and a compute system that all have to agree. ORBITAL owns the optical design, the tracking firmware, the haptic driver and the runtime — which is why our devices stay consistent from the first prototype to the ten-thousandth unit.
Each pillar has its own bench, its own test rig and its own release criteria. Nothing ships because it looks fine in a demo.
Folded pancake optics shorten the optical path to a few centimetres, so the mass sits close to your face instead of hanging off it.
Six cameras and a 200 Hz inertial fusion stage run entirely on-device. No base stations, no calibration ritual, no cable to a PC.
Haptics are a rendering problem, not an accessory. Glide drives wideband voice coils with the same frame budget as the visuals.
Whether the pixels come from the headset or from a workstation, the goal is the same: keep motion-to-photon latency under the threshold where your inner ear stops arguing.
Weight is a specification. So is where that weight sits, how hot the front plate gets after two hours, and how the facial interface behaves after a hundred wipe-downs.
One runtime across the whole line-up. Content written for the Vision X1 runs on the X1 Pro and streams to Aero without a rebuild.
Six stages, each with a gate that a project has to pass before it consumes the next round of tooling money.
Ray tracing, ghost-image analysis and stray-light simulation decide the optical stack before any metal is cut.
CNC and SLA prototypes verify the weight distribution, thermal path and comfort over multi-hour wear.
Tracking calibration, per-unit optical correction and latency budgets are locked against the bench rigs.
Drop, tumble, thermal shock, humidity and photobiological safety testing against IEC 62471 and regional EMC rules.
A limited pilot run proves the assembly fixtures, the calibration station and the end-of-line test software.
Every unit is optically measured and tracking-calibrated, with the test record tied to its serial number.
Our runtime is OpenXR 1.1 conformant and our SDKs are thin wrappers around it. Extensions for eye tracking, depth and haptics are exposed as optional features, so an application never breaks because it ran on a device with fewer sensors.
Optical MTF, latency budget, thermal envelope, IPD range, calibration drift over time — bring your engineers and we will bring ours.