Dlodlo’s VR headset almost looks like real sunglasses — I just wish it fit me

In 2015, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that his company’s Oculus Rift VR devices would not always be big, boxy headsets. One day, he said, people would see virtual reality through a pair of ordinary eyeglasses or sunglasses. Where he put that development years in the future, though, Chinese VR startup Dlodlo is promising it right now. On one hand, it’s an ambitious project that lives up to its promise better than I expected. On the other, it’s making me doubt the value of that promise in the first place.

The $559 V1 headset, which Dlodlo (pronounced "dwo-dwo") announced on Monday, looks like a cross between welding goggles and, as my colleague Thomas Ricker put it, something a Las Vegas Elvis impersonator might wear. Weighing 88...

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