Vivo to showcase mixed reality headgear in late 2025

Last month, Samsung in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm confirmed to launch the company's first-ever mixed reality (MR) headset in 2025.

Now, the Chinese phone maker Vivo at a local event in Beijing has announced to launch a similar mixed reality gadget later this year, reported GSMArena.

Like Samsung, Vivo is most likely to use Android XR OS-based for its virtual reality device, and is expected to offer better user experience than Apple's Vision Pro.

However, Vivo, which is expected to host a special event either in September or October, will showcase a prototype. The company has created a big team of engineers to work on the mixed reality device. They will do extensive testing and Vivo will begin to create a developer community to build dedicated apps for the device.

This will ensure that when the commercial variant hits stores, there is a sufficient number of apps for the customer to make full use of the device.

It should be noted that Apple had more than 600 virtual reality apps before the Vision Pro was released to select markets.

Last month, Apple expanded the availability of Vision Pro in Taiwan. So far, it is available in the US, the UK, China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany.

It remains to be seen if Vivo follows the same strategy as Apple rolling out its mixed reality headsets in phases or releasing them in multiple regions in one go.

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