ELO Sentinel XR Puts a 180-Inch Display in Your Face for Big Screen Mobile Gaming on the Go
Gaming on a smartphone’s touchscreen doesn’t make for the best control option, which is why there’s a fairly large number of mobile controllers designed to bring more tactile gameplay to smartphones. Despite that, you’ll still be stuck playing on a tiny screen, which hardly makes for the best gaming experience. The ELO Sentinel XR offers a way to change that.
Billed as “gaming glasses,” it’s a wearable device that simulates a 180-inch HD display right in front of your face, allowing you to enjoy big screen gaming on the go. Just plug it in to your smartphone, tablet, or gaming handheld to use it as the device’s output, allowing you to play mobile games, watch movies, and do other dastardly things on a screen that feels way bigger than your 65-inch TV at home.
The ELO Sentinel XR is equipped with dual OLED modules, one on each eye, each one delivering 1080p images at up to 120Hz refresh rates and a 1ms response time. Those refresh rate and latency numbers makes it perfectly viable for gaming, allowing you to play any game without lag. According to the outfit, the display is meant to simulate the sensation of watching on 180-inch screen from around 10 feet away, so it feels a lot like you’re playing on your home TV, all while sitting on a bench at campus or waiting in the lobby at the dentist.
According to the outfit, the OLED modules they use deliver a 52-degree field of view, which is the widest currently available in extended reality wearables. As such, it boasts zero cropped edges, with users able to see the whole picture from corner to corner with no blur or distortion. When watching movies, they claim the screen feels very natural and easy on the eyes.
The ELO Sentinel XR are equipped with electrochromic lenses that can block up to 99.7 percent of outside light, allowing you to see the visuals clearly even while playing outside in broad daylight. It’s able to achieve this by covering up areas of the glasses where light is normally able to enter, essentially isolating the visuals from inside the wearable. The outfit claims the display also reaches up to 5,000 nits of brightness, so it should make for very clear, stunning images. Do note, this is strictly a display. That means, there’s no battery onboard, so it’s going to draw power from whatever device is connected to it via USB-C. Other features include built-in stereo speakers on the temples and a multi-layer thermal structure for heat management.
The wearable itself looks like a very chunky pair of sunglasses. Seriously, everything about it is thicker than usual, from the frame to the temples. It’s not the lightest, tipping the scales 2.8 ounces, so you’re definitely going to feel it on your face, but it should still be a lot lighter than your typical VR headset. The glasses, by the way, come with a built-in myopia adjustment for fine-tuning the focus to your eyesight (no need to wear prescription glasses), as well as adjustable temple arms and nose pads for dialing in the fit.
A Kickstarter campaign is currently running for the ELO Sentinel XR. You can reserve a unit for pledges starting at $429.
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