# A 93-gram tethered headset just raised $1.29 million on Kickstarter

Source: https://idevice.com/a-93-gram-tethered-headset-just-raised-1-29-million-on-kickstarter
Published: 2026-09-18

> Unseen Reality's URXR One drops the battery and the computer to hit 93 grams, and backers paid $800 for one. Nothing has shipped, and mid-October is a target the company set itself.

Unseen Reality's URXR One finished its Kickstarter today with $1,288,712, according to [Road to VR](https://roadtovr.com/unseen-reality-xr-glasses-1m-kickstarter/). The campaign passed its $50,000 goal within minutes of opening on August 4. Early backers paid $800, the regular price is listed at $900, and shipping for backers is targeted at mid-October 2026.

It weighs 93 grams, and Unseen Reality gets there by taking things out. There is no battery in the glasses and no onboard computer doing the heavy lifting. The URXR One plugs into a USB-C DisplayPort source, which means a laptop, a phone, a tablet or a gaming handheld, and that device supplies both the pixels and the power.

Each eye gets a 1.03-inch micro-OLED panel at 2,448 by 2,064, running at 90Hz through mini pancake optics, for a 90-degree diagonal field of view. Pixel density works out at about 36 per degree. There is a spatial processing unit on the glasses for 6DoF tracking, four forward-facing cameras, and passthrough at 2,328 by 1,728 and 90fps with latency under 10ms. In-eye brightness runs 120 to 140 nits, which is fine in a dim room and not much more than fine anywhere else.

This is not the birdbath design Xreal and Viture sell. Those put a flat screen in front of you and stop there. The URXR One has passthrough video and head tracking, so it behaves more like a Quest that gave up its computer. Unseen Reality has pitched it at ordinary work: flatscreen games, film, a browser, a spreadsheet. You get one virtual screen in bypass mode and up to three in app mode.

The tether is why the thing weighs 93 grams, and it is also why you cannot walk away from your laptop wearing it. For a category that keeps trying to make a standalone headset light enough to forget you have it on, deciding not to be standalone at all is a real answer, and $1.29 million says a fair number of people wanted to hear it.

Nobody has reviewed a URXR One, no shipping unit exists outside the company, and mid-October is a target Unseen Reality set for itself. It is also not clear when orders outside the campaign will ship at all. Every spec above is the company's own, and each one is a claim until somebody measures a unit.

## Sources

- [Road to VR](https://roadtovr.com/unseen-reality-xr-glasses-1m-kickstarter/) (Road to VR)