Whereas slimming down VR headsets has at all times been a precedence—pancake lenses are considerably slimmer than conventional Fresnel lenses in gadgets like Quest 2—it’s the colour passthrough perform that successfully combines AR and VR right into a single machine (aka ‘combined actuality’).
And Lenovo is in good firm too; Meta is on the brink of launch Undertaking Cambria, which earlier this month was revealed to be the long-awaited Quest Professional in a leak, and ByteDance’s Pico Interactive just lately unveiled Pico 4, which goals to tackle Quest 2 in Europe and a few areas in Asia.
Like Pico 4 and Quest Professional, the ThinkReality VRX options 4 front-mounted cameras for 6DOF monitoring, and two cameras for full coloration, high-resolution passthrough. The back-mounted battery can also be right here, ostensibly serving up higher stability and a a lot much less front-heavy design.
The corporate hasn’t revealed precise specs simply but (i.e. no show decision, FOV, and so on), nevertheless it says ThinkReality VRX is sporting a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR chipset, which we suspect is the now trade commonplace Snapdragon XR2. We’ll replace this piece when/if we study extra.
And what’s all it for? Lenovo is pitching the headset as “the VR resolution for employees in every single place,” including that its headset is targeted on bettering worker coaching, digital collaboration, and duties like design and engineering in 3D.
“Our prospects are in search of dependable, versatile and scalable gateways into the rising Enterprise Metaverse. They want business-class options for the brand new realities of working in hybrid eventualities and digital environments” stated Vishal Shah, GM of XR and Metaverse, Lenovo. “We engineered the Lenovo ThinkReality VRX to be the VR resolution of selection for coaching and collaborating in immersive 3D.”
Lenovo is making ThinkReality VRX accessible in early entry to pick out companions by the tip of 2022, and can later launch common availability in choose markets someday in early 2023.
The corporate can also be identified for a lot of VR and AR headsets because it started in 2016 with the launch of a Home windows Combined Actuality headset, which was launched alongside different high OEMs, corresponding to HP, Samsung, Dell, and Acer. The corporate launched the Mirage Solo VR standalone, manufactured the Rift S for Meta (then Oculus), a Lenovo Classroom 2 VR headset inbuilt partnership with Pico, and its most up-to-date, the ThinkReality A3 AR glasses for enterprise.