Vivo unveils Vision Discovery Edition mixed reality headset

For media entertainment, Vivo Vision Discovery Edition can even generate a 120-foot theatre screen to deliver an immersive viewing experience.

As the Chinese company marks its 30th anniversary, Vivo unveiled the Vision Discovery Edition mixed reality (MR) headgear.

Vivo said it took four years of testing to design the fully functional MR headgear in a compact form factor, so that it can be used for hours without any discomfort.

It weighs around 398g with a height of 83 mm and a thickness of 40 mm. It is said to be 26 per cent smaller than the current crop of MR sets available in the global markets.

Vision Discovery Edition comes in four sizes of light seal and eight foam padding options to ensure an optimal fit and long-lasting comfort, even during extended wear or active movement.

It runs on Vivo's propreitary OriginOS Vision, which is optimised with sensors to support natural and intuitive hand gestures. Also, on the in-built screen, the information will appear seamlessly in the surrounding space, allowing users to shift from traditional 'tap-through-screen' interactions to 'move-and-pinch' gestures.

Vivo Vision Discovery Edition VR headset.

With 1.5-degree high-precision eye-tracking, 26 degrees of freedom in fingertip gesture recognition, and a vertical tracking range of 175-degree, users can enjoy intuitive and responsive controls. Additionally, its Dual Micro-OLED screens deliver 8K binocular resolution. It supports 94 per cent DCI-P3 colour coverage and DeltaE<2 colour accuracy, producing visuals comparable to professional cinema monitors.

"Binocular brightness and colour consistency calibration was also performed, with the binocular brightness difference ≤ 2nits and the binocular chromaticity difference ΔE < 2 to reduce the discomfort caused by binocular visual differences," Vivo said.

Vivo Vision MR set is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 21 processor. Compared to the previous generation, it delivers up to 2.5x GPU performance and 8x AI performance, promising immersive visual and interactive experiences.

It can support panoramic viewing from any angle. This will be great for users to watch live sports and e-sports broadcasts from different angles or in split-screen mode without missing any of the action. For media entertainment, it can even generate a 120-foot theatre screen as well.

Like iPhones, which are capable of recording high-resolution spatial videos for the Vision Pro headset, Vivo will enable similar 3D recording capability for the X100 Ultra and X200 Ultra phones, for Vision Discovery Edition.

The company has not revealed the price of the Vision Discovery Edition yet, but will soon begin to offer a trial option for customers at Vivo's experience centres in mulitple cities in China from August 22. Based on the feedback, the company is expected to launch a commercial variant of the Vision series MR headset in the near future.

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