Nintendo’s Labo VR is great for playing short arcade games in five-minute bursts, but it has its drawbacks. Holding a tablet and giant cardboard contraption to your face can get tiring after a while, especially since there are no straps or mounts to ease the strain. A Canadian company has devised a simple solution to a rather complex problem. The company developed ‘NS Glasses’ – a simple device that employs color switching technology to convert 2D Nintendo Switch titles into VR. Although it may lack some of the high-end features of virtual reality, the NS Glasses certainly takes your Nintendo experience a notch higher.
Design and Features
The NS Glasses looks simple on the eye and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a regular mobile VR headset. The design is secure and ergonomic, ensuring your Switch is firmly secured during gameplay. It comes with a tablet that is securely attached to a plastic mount. The plastic mount has numerous gaps to facilitate smooth airflow in the headset. The adjustable head straps and an even more important top strap combine to help the player keep the device in place.
The NS Glasses is designed to support all games on the Nintendo console. The makers of NS Glasses promise that it is capable of ‘bringing games to life, offering about 18% perspective 3D experience.’ The pixel smoothing technology that helps soften the rough edges arising due to the 720p resolution of the Nintendo Switch further enhances the gaming experience of users.
To further optimize the experience of NS Glasses users, there is an accessible JoyCon Rail-Locks that charges the JoyCons whenever you plug the Switch. The design of the glasses also takes the audio experience of users into account. The vibrant sound from the Switch is fired directly into users’ ears, giving you the optimal gaming experience.
What are the other perks of the NS Glasses?
- Magnify your Switch into a theater: with the NS Glasses, you can experience a theater-like 600’’ screen size
- No eye tiredness: the reasonable distance between your eyes and the screen ensures you can comfortably enjoy long gaming sessions.
- No motion sickness: with the NS Glasses, a single lens is all you need to enjoy your Switch. Your eyes would no longer jump around and the possibility of motion sickness is minimized.
Startup
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend to become registered, startups refer to new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder. At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to be successful and influential. Some startups become unicorns; that is privately held startup companies valued at over US$1 billion.
Actions
Startups typically begin by a founder (solo-founder) or co-founders who have a way to solve a problem. The founder of a startup will begin market validation by problem interview, solution interview, and building a minimum viable product (MVP), i.e. a prototype, to develop and validate their business models. The startup process can take a long period of time (by some estimates, three years or longer), and hence sustaining effort is required. Over the long term, sustaining effort is especially challenging because of the high failure rates and uncertain outcomes. Having a business plan in place outlines what to do and how to plan and achieve an idea in the future. Typically, these plans outline the first 3 to 5 years of your business strategy.
Design principles
Models behind startups presenting as ventures are usually associated with design science. Design science uses design principles considered to be a coherent set of normative ideas and propositions to design and construct the company's backbone. For example, one of the initial design principles is "affordable loss".
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