This mixed-reality headset was designed to be your virtual tour-guide in foreign cities - Yanko Design

In every fashion, the Voyager is what the Google Glass projection should have aimed at becoming. Designed to enhance the tourism feel by augmenting it with everything the net has to offer, and to make you cocky-sufficient in a foreign city so y'all don't have to awkwardly ask people for directions, the Voyager is a goggle-shaped mixed-reality headset that lets you explore new cities like never earlier. The Voyager connects to your phone, bringing elements of smartphone functionality to the mixed-reality infinite. This means you can navigate cities by seeing directions projected on the route alee of you, tin can click pictures and capture videos of everything you come across through the glasses, and can interface with real-world objects and buildings similar your hotel, restaurants, tourist spots, and heritage monuments. Rather than augmented reality, which simply projects virtual elements on the physical world, Voyager'south mixed reality interface means you tin collaborate with elements, tapping on virtual buttons to check into your hotel, program destinations on your maps, and fifty-fifty transport videos and images of your PoV to social media simply by waving in the air!

The Voyager, just like other MR headsets similar the Hololens, Oculus Quest, or the Vive, serves its specific purpose. While some headsets are designed specifically for amusement, and others for work, the Voyager champions travel and living. The headset is styled to look like a pair of goggles, and so people don't stare at you; it comes with clear eyepieces then your eyesight is never obstructed, and yous can wear the headset even when it'southward switched off; and pairs with Voyager'due south ain helmet, which creates the perfect ecosystem of products designed to boost solo tourism and travel. Different other MR headsets, though, the Voyager isn't meant for auction. Designed for temporary use-cases like holidays and quick trips, the Voyager tin be rented from tourism offices, kiosks, and due east-scooter rental centers.

Designers: Seunghye Han, Sieun Roh & Soomin Son