AWOL Vision has opened reservations for the LuxVision, its 6,000-lumen ultra short throw with vertical optical lens shift, and the terms it published on September 29 move the machine later and make the fully specified version more expensive than the headline figure suggests. Buyers put down a refundable $100 deposit now, get a purchase link on November 3, and see shipping begin in late November. The base price stays at $5,999, but four-input HDMI Multiview is now a $500 option and a custom finish adds another $1,000.
The reservation window runs from September 14 to November 2 on AWOL’s own store, with the same deposit in euros and pounds (the Canadian page asks for CA$145). Deposit holders then have from November 3 to November 18 to complete the purchase. AWOL says orders will ship in the sequence final payments arrive, so anyone who reserves early but pays late joins the queue behind them. An unused deposit is refunded automatically once the redemption period closes.
When AWOL first priced the LuxVision on September 3, shipping was described as around October, and that is how we reported it at the time. The new schedule puts the first deliveries roughly a month after that.
What the deposit buys, and what costs extra
AWOL is pitching the reservation as a buy-one-get-one offer. Pay $5,999 for the projector and one screen comes free, chosen from two lines: the New Gen Fresnel ALR screen in sizes from 100 to 150 inches, which AWOL lists at $999 to $4,999, or the New Gen Floor-Rising ALR screen at 100 to 120 inches, listed at $1,999 to $2,999. A 150-inch screen carries a $200 oversized shipping charge. Screen and projector otherwise ship free to supported regions.
The bundle is genuinely generous at the large end. A 150-inch Fresnel at its list price is most of the cost of the projector again, and ultra short throw projectors need an ambient-light-rejecting screen of the right type to look the way their brochures do, so this is not a throw-in nobody will use. AWOL calls it its best LuxVision offer of the year, which is a reasonable hint that buyers who wait until after November 18 should expect to pay for the screen.
The two paid upgrades change the arithmetic in the other direction. Multiview, which splits the image into four live HDMI sources at once and is the feature AWOL’s launch material leans on for sports, now appears in the specification table as “not included in the standard version.” Add it and the custom color, material and finish option, and a LuxVision reaches $7,499 before any screen. The three standard finishes are Eclipse Platinum, Boreal Oak and Champagne Walnut.
The specification sheet, filled in
The rest of the published sheet matches what AWOL announced at IFA. The light source is an RGB triple laser rated at 6,000 ISO lumens with 110 percent of Rec.2020. Native contrast is listed as 10,000:1 “with IRIS,” alongside a seven-step dynamic iris and an Enhanced Black Level figure of 100,000:1. The throw ratio is 0.18:1, or a 120-inch picture from 7.5 inches, and image size runs from 80 to 200 inches.
The vertical optical shift is specified at +142 to -152 percent offset. That is the reason the LuxVision exists. Ultra short throw installations are normally aligned by moving the cabinet a few millimetres at a time and then using digital keystone to finish the job, which costs resolution. Optical shift moves the image without touching the pixel grid, so the projector can sit lower in a console or further back without the picture softening.
Gaming support is complete on paper: 4K at 120Hz end to end, a quoted 1ms input lag at that rate, VRR, ALLM and Dolby Vision Gaming. Inputs are three HDMI 2.1 ports and a DisplayPort, with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, gigabit Ethernet, AirPlay 2, Chromecast and Miracast. The software is Google TV. The motorised lens cover and 3D support are also listed, with AWOL saying its rainbow-reduction technology works in both 2D and 3D.
Two items on the page still look unfinished. The specification table has no audio section at all: no speaker count, no wattage, no Dolby Atmos line, which is the same gap we noted a month ago and an unusual omission for a machine sold as a television replacement. The dimensions are given as 24.25 by 14.05 by 5.82 “cm” next to a weight of 15.9 kg, which cannot both be right. Read as inches, the numbers describe a 62-centimetre-wide chassis, which fits the weight and the product photos far better.
The calendar around it
The new dates put the LuxVision’s first deliveries a few weeks after XGIMI’s AURA 3 Pro and AURA 3 Max open on Kickstarter on October 20. Those two are rated at 4,100 and 5,700 ISO lumens, have no optical shift, and will ship whenever the campaign delivers. The comparison we drew in September still holds: the AURA 3 Max claims about 95 percent of the LuxVision’s brightness for well under half the price, and the money AWOL is asking for goes into the lens, the inputs and a conventional retail sale rather than into light.
What has changed is the timing. A November 3 purchase date and late-November shipping land the LuxVision in the same weeks as Black Friday, when AWOL’s own Aetherion line is likely to be discounted. The store is already running an Aetherion sale from October 1 to 7 that it bills as the year’s lowest prices for that model. Someone choosing between the two at the end of November will be weighing a discounted, shipping Aetherion against a full-price LuxVision whose main advantage is a lens that moves.
For buyers whose problem is exactly that, a cabinet that cannot be pushed further from the wall or a screen already fixed in place, the lens shift is worth real money and nothing else in the category offers it. For everyone else, the useful number in AWOL’s announcement is not $5,999. It is November 3, the day a projector first shown in Berlin becomes something a person can actually buy, and the start of the window in which independent measurements of that 6,000-lumen claim can finally appear.
