Nimo Planet Nimo — specification and verdict
Nimo Planet sells the Nimo 1 Glasses together with the Nimo Core, a puck the size of an earphone case that carries the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, 8 GB of RAM and the whole of Nimo OS; the glasses themselves have no battery and no compute. The manufacturer's FAQ gives 1920x1080 per eye, a 46-degree field of view and 49 pixels per degree, which is enough to read a spreadsheet or a manual in a floating window. Tracking is 3DoF only, so windows follow your head and nothing can be anchored to a machine, a panel or a workpiece. For training that limits it to reading and watching: there is no positional tracking to place a task in the room, and no controller with which to perform one.
The Core is bought as a bundle with the Nimo 1 Glasses at 1299 USD, or on its own for use with Rokid Max or Xreal Air glasses. Nimo Planet sells direct and describes enterprise shipments and a developer programme; there is no distributor in Poland or Germany, so a fleet arrives as an import with no local warranty path. No MDM enrolment, kiosk mode or remote provisioning is published, which means every unit is configured by hand even though Nimo OS is AOSP-based. Battery is 150 minutes on a 1850 mAh cell in the Core, so a full training day needs charging breaks or a USB-C power bank in the pocket beside it. Hygiene is easy by comparison with a headset, since a glasses frame has no facial interface to swap.
Do not buy this for VR safety training: it is a personal display for desktop work, and our courses will not run on it. If someone in the organisation wants a portable multi-window workstation, the Nimo Core plus a pair of Xreal or Rokid glasses is a reasonable thing to trial. For training, buy a standalone 6DoF VR headset instead.
How it compares within its class
The axis runs from the lowest to the highest published figure among the AR — wearable display devices in this catalogue. The grey tick is the median of that class.
Median for this class: 50°, from 11 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: $579, from 13 models that publish the figure.
Full specification
An em dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure.
- ManufacturerWho makes it — and who you buy support from.
- Nimo Planet
- CategoryWhich kind of product this is. It decides which rows below make sense at all.
- AR — wearable display
- Device typeWhere the computing happens, and therefore what you need to run it.
- AR with a compute puck
- AnnouncedThe day it was shown, which is not the day it shipped.
- 2022-02-21
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- Released: not published by the manufacturer
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- On sale
- Support endsThe date the manufacturer stops supporting it. Decisive for a fleet you are about to buy.
- Support ends: not published by the manufacturer
- DisplayHow the image is produced. "No display" is a real answer in this category, not a gap.
- Waveguide
- Eyes coveredOne eye or both. Over a full shift this is a real difference in fatigue.
- Both eyes
- Resolution per eyePixels delivered to each eye. Higher means small text and labels stay readable.
- 1920x1080
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- Refresh rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Field of viewHow much of your view the image covers. Bigger is more immersive, not automatically better for work.
- 46°
- Pixel densityPixels per degree of view — the honest way to compare sharpness between a headset and a pair of glasses. Higher is sharper. Only shown where somebody published it; we never compute it ourselves.
- 49 PPD
- BrightnessIn a plant or outdoors, brightness decides legibility more than resolution does.
- Brightness: not published by the manufacturer
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- ≈120 g*VRcompare spec sheet
- Visible field of viewWhat the eye actually sees through the optics, by axis.
- Visible field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Rendered field of viewWhat the device draws. Never smaller than what you see.
- Rendered field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Binocular overlapWhere both eyes see the same thing — this is where depth happens.
- Binocular overlap: not published by the manufacturer
- Average pixel densityPixels per degree across the image. More is sharper.
- Average pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Peak pixel densityThe sharpest point, usually the centre of the lens.
- Peak pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Subpixel layoutHow the coloured dots sit in a pixel. A stripe looks cleaner on text than PenTile.
- Subpixel layout: not published by the manufacturer
- Foveated renderingWhether detail is dropped outside where you look, to save performance.
- Foveated rendering: not published by the manufacturer
- Vision correctionHow somebody who wears glasses uses it, and in what dioptre range.
- Vision correction: not published by the manufacturer
- DimensionsWidth, height and depth of the device itself.
- Dimensions: not published by the manufacturer
- Weight with strapWith the strap it ships with — the weight you actually wear.
- Weight with strap: not published by the manufacturer
- Head strapSoft band or a rigid one. Decides how the weight sits over an hour.
- Glasses frame
- MaterialsShell and facial interface, in the vendor’s words.
- plastic
- ColoursColours the manufacturer sells it in.
- Black
- Haptics in the headsetVibration in the headset itself, not in the controllers.
- Haptics in the headset: not published by the manufacturer
- TrackingWhether content stays put in the room (6DoF), follows head rotation (3DoF) or is simply fixed.
- 3DoF (rotation only)
- Tracking camerasHow many cameras it uses to know where it is.
- Tracking cameras: not published by the manufacturer
- Tracking rateHow often position is recalculated. Higher is steadier.
- Tracking rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Depth sensorA dedicated sensor for distance, on top of the cameras.
- Depth sensor: not published by the manufacturer
- Hand trackingWhether bare hands can operate the interface, without a controller or the phone.
- No
- Face trackingTracks facial expression — for avatars, not for training scenarios.
- Face tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Body trackingHow much of the body the device knows about. Estimated legs are not tracked legs.
- Body tracking: not published by the manufacturer
- Controllers includedWhether motion controllers come in the box, or are bought separately — or the device is hands-only.
- Yes
- Controller modelThe manufacturer's own name for the controller.
- Nimo Core (trackpad and Air Mouse)
- Controller tracking6DoF controllers track position and rotation, so a hand reaches in space; 3DoF only point. “None” means hands only.
- 3DoF
- Finger tracking on the controllerWhether the controller senses individual fingers, and how.
- Finger tracking on the controller: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller inputsButtons, sticks and triggers the controller offers.
- trackpad · air-mouse pointing · Bluetooth keyboard
- Controller hapticsVibration feedback in the hand.
- Controller haptics: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller powerDisposable cells or a built-in rechargeable — a fleet question.
- Controller power: not published by the manufacturer
- Controller weightOne controller, as the vendor weighs it.
- Controller weight: not published by the manufacturer
- Other input methodsWays in beyond controllers and bare hands.
- Other input methods: not published by the manufacturer
- Where it computesWhether the device computes on its own or depends on a phone, PC or belt-worn puck.
- Driven by a belt-worn puck
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1
- CPUCores and clocks, where the manufacturer publishes them.
- CPU: not published by the manufacturer
- GPUThe graphics part of the chip.
- Adreno 650
- MemoryRAM on the device. Together with the chipset it sets how complex a scene can be.
- 8 GB
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Nimo OS
- SD card slotWhether storage can be added with a card.
- SD card slot: not published by the manufacturer
- BatteryRuntime as the manufacturer states it. A hot-swappable pack matters more than the figure.
- 150 min
- Battery capacity (Wh)Energy in the cell. Bigger is longer, given the same power draw.
- Battery capacity (Wh): not published by the manufacturer
- Battery capacity (mAh)The same fact in the other unit vendors use. We never convert between the two.
- 1850 mAh
- Charge timeFrom empty to full. Rarely stated by the manufacturer, so it usually comes from whoever timed it.
- Charge time: not published by the manufacturer
- ChargerPower of the supplied charger — it decides the charge time above.
- Charger: not published by the manufacturer
- External batteryBattery on a cable or a puck instead of on the head.
- External battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Charging caseExtra runtime carried in the case the glasses ship with.
- Charging case: not published by the manufacturer
- Hot-swap batteryWhether a charged battery can replace the empty one without ending the session. This is what decides if a headset can hold an all-day training station.
- Hot-swap battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Third-party appsHow a third party's application reaches the device: an ordinary Android package, a vendor-only SDK, or not at all.
- Ordinary Android app (APK)
- Runs Skillsive appsOur own statement about whether Skillsive training applications run on it today.
- No
- Suitable for trainingOur judgement on whether it survives real deployment: comfort, hygiene, fleet management.
- No
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- Certifications: not published by the manufacturer
- PortsPhysical sockets and charging contacts.
- USB Type-C
- Wi-FiThe Wi-Fi generation — it decides how well wireless streaming holds up.
- Wi-Fi 6
- BluetoothFor controllers, headphones and accessories.
- Bluetooth LE 5.1
- Video from a computerWhether a computer can drive it, over a cable or wirelessly.
- Over a cable · Wireless
- AudioBuilt-in sound. Matters most where somebody has to hear a remote expert while working.
- Audio: not published by the manufacturer
- MicrophoneBuilt-in microphone — the other half of talking to a remote expert.
- Yes
- MicrophonesHow many. An array picks a voice out of a noisy hall; one does not.
- Microphones: not published by the manufacturer
- CameraA camera is what makes a remote expert call and photo documentation possible.
- No
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Premium
- Launch priceThe manufacturer's launch price. Fixed history, so it never goes stale.
- $1299
- Price by configurationWhat each configuration cost at launch.
- Price by configuration: not published by the manufacturer
- Price todayApproximate current net price in USD — a general figure, since these barely differ between regions once tax is stripped out. A snapshot from the date shown, not an offer.
- $1299
Who this device is for
This is for a mobile knowledge worker who wants several large windows in a train seat or a hotel room, and for developers curious about Nimo OS as an AOSP-based spatial desktop. It is not for an EHS trainer: 46 degrees of field of view and 3DoF tracking cannot show a procedure in place, and there is no controller to interact with one.
What is missing, and what the manufacturer does not publish
The two available sources disagree badly: VRcompare lists 1280x720 per eye, a 26-degree diagonal and 3 hours of battery, while Nimo Planet's own FAQ says 1920x1080, 46 degrees, 49 PPD and about 2.5 hours from 1850 mAh; we took the manufacturer's numbers. Nimo Planet publishes no weight for the glasses (the 120 g here is VRcompare's), no brightness in nits, no camera specification, no certifications and no actual release date. In August 2026 the product page still advertises a Q3 2024 ship window and takes reservations, and we found no independent hands-on review, so treat general availability as unproven.
Nimo Planet Nimo — frequently asked questions
- Do the Nimo 1 Glasses work without the Nimo Core puck?
- No. The glasses carry no battery and no compute at all — the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, the 8 GB of RAM and Nimo OS all live in the Core, and the glasses are a display connected to it. The Core can also be bought on its own to drive Rokid Max or Xreal Air glasses, which is the cheaper way in.
- Can Skillsive VR training courses run on Nimo OS?
- No. Nimo OS is AOSP-based and runs Android and web apps in floating windows, but tracking is 3DoF, so the system knows where you are looking and not where you are standing. Our courses need positional 6DoF tracking and tracked controllers, so they need a standalone VR headset instead.
- Has the 1299 USD Nimo pre-order actually shipped?
- Not verifiably. Nimo Planet says pre-production units went to a few early customers and that it ships to enterprises, but in August 2026 the site still shows a Q3 2024 ship window and a reservation button, and no independent review of a retail unit exists. Ask for a delivery date in writing before you pay.
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