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Sony's Enterprise MR Headset Set to Release Next Month, Priced at $4,750 (www.roadtovr.com)

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We haven’t heard much about Sony’s SRH-S1 standalone MR headset over the past year, which the company revealed at CES 2024. Now, the enterprise-focused device has an official launch date and price.

Released in collaboration with Siemens, the soberly-named Sony SRH-S1 is set to launch sometime in February 2025, priced at $4,750, which the companies are squarely aiming at enterprise. Orders begin on January 23rd, 2025, purchasable directly through Siemens.

While previously pitched last year to appeal to creatives, Sony and Siemens are clearly targeting industrial use cases; the companies say SRH-S1 will “enable the industrial metaverse” and enhance product design and manufacturing through Siemens’ set of high-fidelity mixed reality tools.

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[–] blunderworld 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sony is on the crack pipe with these prices

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it does say enterprise and those are definitely enterprise level prices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They are competing with the likes of Varjo and Xtal, which makes the price look reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's probably also an enterprise monthly fee like most other enterprise headsets. If this is the perfect tool for some engineering or design job that will make a lot of money then it makes sense but idk who uses these and not a standard consumer headset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I agree. This price is nuts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

WTF is the "industrial metaverse?" Who tf was asking for it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Industrial Metaverse is just a Metaverse with no furries. Sounds like something doomed to fail.