Although Lenovo is gradually reoriented their ambitions mixed reality for corporate clients, she is still interested in the production of typefaces to be used by normal users in classrooms, museums, and doctors ‘ offices. In this regard, today the company announced the release of a new stand-alone headset called VR S3 Mirage, equipped with a 4K display and more easy-to-clean front panel that is considered appropriate for mass use in the era COVID-19.
Interestingly, Mirage S3 VR was developed in conjunction with Pico, which recently started to supply corporate headset Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye higher class under its own brand. Although the Lenovo model is also able to operate in standalone mode, it uses less powerful tracking system on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and 3DoF compared to Snapdragon processor, the Neo 2 845 and 6DoF. But it is equipped with two 1920 x 2160 displays, field of view 101 degrees and battery work more than three hours — all this in a relatively easy 470-gram enclosure that is compatible with goggles.
Carefully balanced features designed for use in medical institutions, for the use cases that includes both learning practitioners and patients, and also for teachers looking for an affordable and safer alternative to VR for excursions and laboratory experiments. Lenovo also expects the Mirage VR S3 will be used for the safety briefing at the enterprises, training of law enforcement officers in scenarios of high risk with developing software skills for managers — applications which otherwise could be processed in Oculus Go, but will benefit from higher resolution S3 and ergonomic improvements.
In addition to the old chip Snapdragon S3 also lags behind the hardware curve in the support only wireless standards latest generation (Wi-Fi Bluetooth 4.2 and 5), and one controller 3DoF. But Lenovo hopes to fill it from the software, supporting software platform applications ThinkReality AR / VR, including the integration of enterprise and control applications and devices on the level of it. S3 also supports educational platform Lenovo VR Classroom 2 and includes a global end-to-end corporate services throughout the lifetime.
Mirage VR S3 will be available in the third quarter of 2020 in North America, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, China, and Japan. Corporate rates are available on the Lenovo website.
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