I’m Max Coutte and when my best friend Gabriel Combe and I were 15 years old we built our own VR headset because we couldn’t afford to buy one. It became Relativty, one of the world’s’ most popular open-source VR headset.
Make it for $200
Relativty is not a consumer product. We made Relativty in my bedroom with a soldering iron and a 3D printer and we expect you to do the same: build it yourself.
The affordable motherboard that runs the Relativty Firmware it is based on the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 processor and uses an MPU-6050 as it’s IMU. The naked PCB and the components to solder on, cost in total about 25 dollars. The firmware runs on any ARM SAM microcontroller.
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