Phone-Based AR Headset

The first step toward a Big Blue Ceiling headset was deliberately modest: what's the simplest, cheapest AR headset that works?

The answer was the first HoloFlect prototype. A Samsung Galaxy S6 provided the display and compute, and a Leap Motion controller added hand tracking, both held in a 3D-printed frame we designed. It was built for the audience HoloFlect started with: education, independent developers and underserved communities, where the hardware has to be affordable and easy to build.

The prototype proved the basics, and the lessons from it fed directly into every HoloFlect generation that followed.