Noema — Series One
A headset that meets your face instead of waiting in a drawer. The optics track your position, the chassis closes the last two inches on its own, and the whole thing seats itself before you've finished sitting down.
01 — The system
Every other headset is a thing you hold. Noema is a thing that arrives. The visor and the mount are a single mechanism, and neither one is useful without the other — which is why we stopped shipping them as separate products.
412 grams of machined shell, balanced so the weight sits on your cheekbones instead of your nose.
Six axes of travel. It reads where your head actually is, not where a diagram says it should be.
02 — Optics
Seen edge on, there's barely anything there. Four pancake elements fold the light path back on itself twice, so the whole stack is 18 millimeters deep — about the thickness of two stacked coins.
Light bounces twice inside the element instead of traveling a long barrel. That's where the depth goes.
The mount measures your pupil distance on approach and sets each barrel independently. No dial, no guessing.
The outer coating is oleophobic. Fingerprints wipe off dry, which matters more than any spec on this page.
03 — By the numbers
Every figure here was taken on production hardware, at room temperature, with the display at half brightness. We publish the test conditions because a number without them isn't worth printing.
04 — Why we built it
Nobody gives up on a headset because of the headset. They give up in the thirty seconds before it — finding it, untangling it, adjusting it twice. We've never had anyone ask for those back.
Design note — Series One
05 — Where it's working
Noema went to the places where taking thirty seconds to gear up costs something real. These aren't pilots — they're the rooms it's in today.
Scrubbed hands can't touch a strap. The mount does the seating, so sterility survives the handoff.
Forty operators, one station, one shift. Nobody adjusts anything between turns.
Cold cockpit to visual in under four seconds, with the headset already tracking before it touches skin.
A full-scale model you can walk around, at the desk where the argument is actually happening.
06 — Specification
| Display | 2× micro-OLED, 3840×3840 per eye |
|---|---|
| Refresh | 72 / 90 / 120 Hz, switchable in software |
| Field of view | 112° horizontal, 96° vertical |
| Passthrough | Three-camera color, 4.1 ms end to end |
| Tracking | Inside-out, six degrees of freedom, no base stations |
| Chassis | Machined aluminum, bead-blasted, anodized |
| Seating time | 1.8 s from approach to locked |
| Power | Mount-fed while docked, 3 h 20 min untethered |
07 — Series One
We make three hundred units at a time and we don't start the next run until the last one has shipped. If you reserve today you'll get a build slot and a date, not a waiting list. No deposit until the slot is confirmed.