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Voyager – Mixed Reality Headset Designed for Travel
The Voyager, just like other MR headsets like the HoloLens, Oculus Quest, or the Vive, serves a specific purpose. While some headsets are designed specifically for entertainment, and others for work, the Voyager champions travel and living. The Voyager enhances the tourism experience by augmenting it with everything the internet has to offer. It makes a virtual traveler self-sufficient in a foreign city. The Voyager is a goggle-shaped mixed-reality headset that provides a virtual exploration of cities like never before. The Voyager connects to a phone, bringing elements of smartphone functionality to the mixed-reality space allowing the user to navigate cities by seeing directions projected on the road ahead, click pictures and capture videos of everything seen through the glasses, and can interface with real-world objects and buildings like hotels, restaurants, tourist spots, and heritage monuments. Rather than augmented reality, which projects virtual elements on the physical world, Voyager’s mixed reality interface interacts with elements, tapping on virtual buttons to check into a hotel, program destinations on maps, and even send videos and images of PoV to social media just by waving in the air!
The headset is styled to look like a pair of goggles and comes with clear eyepieces so the eyesight is never obstructed, and can be worn even when it’s switched off; and pairs with Voyager’s own helmet, which creates an ecosystem of products designed to boost solo tourism and travel. Unlike other MR headsets, though, the Voyager isn’t meant for sale. Designed for temporary use-cases like holidays and quick trips, the Voyager can be rented from tourism offices, kiosks, and e-scooter rental centers.
Figure 1: Voyager Goggles
The Voyager, just like other MR headsets like the HoloLens, Oculus Quest, or the Vive, serves a specific purpose. While some headsets are designed specifically for entertainment, and others for work, the Voyager champions travel and living. The Voyager enhances the tourism experience by augmenting it with everything the internet has to offer. It makes a virtual traveler self-sufficient in a foreign city. The Voyager is a goggle-shaped mixed-reality headset that provides a virtual exploration of cities like never before. The Voyager connects to a phone, bringing elements of smartphone functionality to the mixed-reality space allowing the user to navigate cities by seeing directions projected on the road ahead, click pictures and capture videos of everything seen through the glasses, and can interface with real-world objects and buildings like hotels, restaurants, tourist spots, and heritage monuments. Rather than augmented reality, which projects virtual elements on the physical world, Voyager’s mixed reality interface interacts with elements, tapping on virtual buttons to check into a hotel, program destinations on maps, and even send videos and images of PoV to social media just by waving in the air!
The headset is styled to look like a pair of goggles and comes with clear eyepieces so the eyesight is never obstructed, and can be worn even when it’s switched off; and pairs with Voyager’s own helmet, which creates an ecosystem of products designed to boost solo tourism and travel. Unlike other MR headsets, though, the Voyager isn’t meant for sale. Designed for temporary use-cases like holidays and quick trips, the Voyager can be rented from tourism offices, kiosks, and e-scooter rental centers.
Figure 1: Voyager Goggles
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Designers: Seunghye Han, Sieun Roh & Soomin Son