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2026 7

  1. Compute Pack Progress
  2. SLS Prints
  3. Heatsink components
  4. Inside Simula's compute pack
  5. Simula's compute pack enclosure
  6. Dev Kit Boards Complete
  7. Testing our batteries

2025 2

  1. Manufacturing some new tracking sensor boards
  2. Dev Kits, Compute Packs, & 2025 Timeline

2024 5

  1. Simula On NixOS
  2. AR Mode Progress: Receiving Raw Images From Our Hardware
  3. Second Iteration Headset Enclosure
  4. Anton Bukov Investment (& Headset Teaser Prints)
  5. Chassis Adjustments (& Apple Vision Pro Reactions)

2023 11

  1. Display Leadtimes Reduced (& We're Hiring an EE)
  2. Vitalik Buterin Has Invested 400 ETH into Simula
  3. Headsets Delayed into 2024 (+ Review Unit Testimonials & Investor Feedback)
  4. Simula One Compute is Being Upgraded to Raptor Lake
  5. Simula's Reaction to Apple (Plus: Looking for Review Unit Testers & Venture Capital)
  6. Headset Chassis Improvements
  7. Testing AR Mode Image Processing
  8. Early Review Unit in Transit
  9. Adding Diopter Adjustments
  10. FPGA Image Processing Pipeline
  11. 2023 Timeline (for Polished Review Units)

2022 38

  1. Camera Boards Sent to PCB Fab
  2. X-Raying Our Boards for Imperfections
  3. Simula One's Auto-IPD System
  4. Meta's Subpoena Dropped; Simula One vs. Quest Pro
  5. SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
  6. First Glimpse of Review Units
  7. PCBA Delays (& Syzygy Camera Adapter Update)
  8. Camera Syzygy Adapter
  9. Board Integration Tests (Mostly a Success)
  10. Facial Interface Assembled (+ Board Integration Testing)
  11. First Batch of Our Assembled Boards
  12. Assembling Our VXR Boards (& Misc)
  13. Creating a Dust-Free Lens Assembly Environment
  14. Taking Our Boards to a PCBA
  15. Review Units: Timeline Update
  16. Upcoming Price Increases (& FPGA Connectors)
  17. All Units Upgraded to Alder Lake + 32GB RAM Upgrade Now Available
  18. Simula One FPGAs
  19. Board Updates
  20. Simula's Software Stack
  21. Latest Review Unit Print + VXR Board
  22. Paying for Productivity: Premium Workstations Over Time
  23. Review Units Progress
  24. Lenses & Schematics
  25. Gramsy (YouTuber) Discusses Simula One
  26. How Long Until Review Units?
  27. Upgrading to Alder Lake
  28. Demoing Our Displays
  29. Camera Considerations: Resolution, Bandwidth, & Latency
  30. How Simula's Optical Design Achieves its PPD
  31. Preorders are now available!
  32. We're Launching This Weekend (With a Lower Price)
  33. Simula One Video Teaser
  34. The Ghost Howls interviews Simula's team
  35. Why VR Computers are better than PCs & Laptops
  36. Why is the Simula One so expensive?
  37. The Simula One's Pricing & Kickstarter Goal
  38. How We Designed the Simula One

2021 5

  1. VR Comparison: Simula One vs. Valve Index vs. Quest 2
  2. Technical overview of Simula's VR Computer
  3. Simula One Teaser
  4. We don't want to socialize in a Metaverse; we just want a productive VR computer
  5. VR & Definite Optimism