Tomorrow, exciting news will occur for everyone in the AR/VR (still small) world. Lynx is involved and some pieces of something we’ve been working on for a few months will be revealed.

I can’t talk about anything that will occur tomorrow or the partners involved, but I expect a round of tech news to cover it extensively.

No matter what will happen and what you can learn/speculate from it, these are my words:

Lynx is still committed to the same mission: unlock the best Mixed Reality experiences with amazing devices and OS-level integration for spatial computing.

We are not acquired, nor did a new fundraising. The team is still in place, and still working on exciting new projects and supporting the existing Lynx-R1.

With the latest hardware, optics, and perception sensors and algorithms available now, Mixed Reality is at a level I could only dream about when I started Lynx.

There are more software engineers working at Lynx than hardware engineers (approx. 2/3 SW, 1/3 HW), and they are still working on our OS based on AOSP, from drivers and kernel patches all the way up to the application layer and OpenXR SDK.

For the R1, we are shipping now the last hundreds of devices going to our community (you should see the shipping emails before the end of this week), and will refund the few who asked, as previously declared. We needed a bit more time than anticipated after this summer as the company faced some challenges in 2023 and 2024.

Now for what is coming ahead, the team and I can only contain our excitement for now, but we believe Lynx has now passed a crucial inflection point, both in resources/engineering available and means to really build in quality and quantity at the level of our initial ambition.
Please remember that our total budget for the last 4 years is approximately 4 hours of budget at Meta (1B$/month, divided by 720 hours was our yearly burn rate lol).

I can’t wait to share more early next week with you all. Expect a longer blog post.

Stan

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Unrelated note: I’m using this post to also signal that I probably won’t be posting on Twitter/X anymore, I generally don’t use social media and grew tired of it all, and I’ll just use this website more if I need to share things.

Unrelated note for the French here (no subtitles available for now): I talked about AR/VR in this video last month, mainly reacting to Meta Orion.

I’ll be speaking at SPIE AR/VR/MR conference at the end of January.