Darshan Shankar
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CEO, Founder @BigscreenVR – creators of the Bigscreen Beyond, the world’s smallest VR headset. Previously @ycombinator @UCBerkeley
California
Joined July 2007
This is Bigscreen Beyond 2 · 116° field of view – the best visual fidelity · 107 gram weight – 5-7X lighter than Quest 3 & Apple Vision Pro · eyetracking We aim to prove that @BigscreenVR makes the best VR optics in the world, better than Apple or Meta. I'm so proud of our
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DECEMBER PRODUCTION UPDATE! This December is our largest month of shipping in the company's history. Our factory is running nights, weekends, and overtime shifts to get as many Beyond 2 units shipped by the holidays as possible. Unsurprisingly, we've already shipped more Beyond
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I'm proud of a lot of things with @BigscreenVR. We've shipped more Bigscreen Beyond 2 headsets in the past 2 weeks than the past 2 months! In fact, we'll ship more units in December than we typically did annually in 2023/2024! We've made something people really, really love,
Introducing the new Bigscreen Beyond ~ Cyber Storage Can DRINK RESPONSIBLY STORE AND PROTECT ZERO CALORIES https://t.co/dQeQck3RMj In stock, and ships from Los Angeles, California.
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Our Los Angeles factory has been busy yeeting out Beyonds: We've shipped more Bigscreen Beyond 2 headsets in the past 2 weeks than we shipped in October and November combined! 🥳
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Confirmed this morning: as of 2025, we @BigscreenVR are the largest buyer in the world of micro-OLED displays in VR. Apple was the largest in 2023/2024 for Vision Pro. Bigscreen is the largest in 2025!
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After months of challenges with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and tariffs, we're thrilled to announce the Bigscreen Beyond 2 with Universal-Fit Cushions are now shipping! December is poised to be our largest month of shipping, ever. We will ship more Beyond 2s this
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Based on this, the window to order and receive a Beyond 2 before Christmas is now closed. New orders placed today are estimated to ship in January. We will update our website shortly to reflect this latest estimate. We’ll do our best to improve lead times and hope to deliver
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Yesterday was our biggest sales day in the past couple of months – did something massive happen in the VR industry?! It's so interesting to me how Apple Vision Pro's 2023 launch day and Steam Frame's launch day have both been huge sales days for the Bigscreen Beyond! Rising
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Today we’re releasing the Baz CLI with a completely different way to review code.
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As of last night, we've now manufactured more Bigscreen Beyond 2 headsets than we did in the entire 2 years of the first-gen Bigscreen Beyond. We've now successfully shipped half of all preorders. Next, we're bracing for an inevitably busy holiday season. It currently takes >2
Bigscreen says it sold more Beyond 2 headsets in the first 4 hours than it did Beyond 1 in its first 2 months, and it's now backordered to June: https://t.co/pu5P94TpAe
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How does Pimax constantly get away with publishing false information in their marketing? We met with Microsoft today. Pimax is not the "official peripheral partner" and Microsoft has never said this, as Flight Simulator 2024 is a hardware-agnostic platform! Frustrating.
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This is where it all started 4 years ago when we switched from R&D to preparing for mass production for our first-gen Bigscreen Beyond.
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Gorgeous photoshoot of the Beyond 1 & 2 from one of our customers (photo cred: qualia)
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I’ve been deep into sim racing and our own @BigscreenVR Beyond 2 has been outstanding. The custom-fit, size, weight & visuals are game-changing. After 6+ months of weekly 3h @iRacing sessions, I truly love it. So I made something for fellow VR sim racers: Bigscreen Racing Gloves
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Proud of the team for pulling this off! We’ve now shipped more than a third of the @BigscreenVR Beyond 2 preorder backlog and should be done with preorders by end of November. In a few weeks, the window to order and receive a Beyond 2 before Christmas will close due to sheer
Bigscreen has successfully shipped more than one third of all preorders of Bigscreen Beyond 2! In fact, we are now able to ship as many Beyond 2's in a single month as we used to ship in an entire year of Beyond 1 in prior years! We have no updates or delays for Beyond 2 & 2e
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If I wasn’t running @BigscreenVR, I would love to join Nirav for this Head of Hardware role @FrameworkPuter!
Also in hiring news, we just opened a role to replace me… as Head of Hardware so that I can focus on being CEO. We have an absolutely killer 20+ person hardware team, and I am looking for the leader who can bring the group to the next level.
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Bigscreen has successfully shipped more than one third of all preorders of Bigscreen Beyond 2! In fact, we are now able to ship as many Beyond 2's in a single month as we used to ship in an entire year of Beyond 1 in prior years! We have no updates or delays for Beyond 2 & 2e
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With Beyond 2, we are shipping world-class optics & engineering. And today, we're revealing more about the cutting-edge machine learning we're doing with our cameras. We need a clever name for our 3D eyetracking model and the fine-tuned per-user models we're shipping to
Today, we published new details about the advanced Eyetracking technology from our computer vision team for Bigscreen Beyond 2e! Unlike traditional computer vision implementations, we trained a unique AI model of the human eye in 3D space. Machine learning with cloud-based GPUs
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The August Production Update is now out! We're continuing to ship more Beyond 2's each week. Our production speed has been improving week-over-week, and we expect to hit our target production output by mid-September. We know many of you have been excited, frustrated, and patient
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The top post on r/virtualreality today is why we made the @BigscreenVR app for @MetaQuestVR Watching movies with loved ones in VR is a really special feeling (especially 3D movies)
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