The Completely Wireless VR Headset! - Lenovo Mirage Solo & Camera Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,379 words · ~6 min read
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i'm definitely a fan of good vr experiences and i'm sure there are quite
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a few of you out there that feel the same but the investment required to get a
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good vr experience can be pretty big
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it's definitely a barrier of entry for a lot of people who'd like to get into vr
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so when lenovo reached out about doing a sponsored showcase of their mirage solo
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daydream vr headset and their mirage camera i was intrigued it's got two
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cameras on the front here and this is something that we've seen before in
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Windows mixed reality headsets but
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it's also completely self-contained with
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no wires or separate pc required
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so let's take a look
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it's not actually on yet we're just gonna roll the animated intro for now
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let's put the camera aside for now and start off with the mirage solo headset
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this is the world's first stand-alone
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daydream head-mounted display in the past all daydream headsets were
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essentially a shell with lenses that you could slide your daydream compatible
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phone into side note here google only actually
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lists 10 phones as daydream compatible on their website three of which are
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pixel devices so if you want to go that route make sure you double check that
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list with the mirage headset none of that matters it has its own built-in
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computer phone thing to do all of the rendering so
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standalone means there's no trip hazard wires all over the place and no external
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sensors that you have to drill into your wall or mount to your desk or whatever
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and as a side bonus you won't drain the battery of your actual phone like you
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would with a google cardboard you know in case your mom calls or whatever
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the exterior is made of like a soft touch off-white plastic with padding
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here here and here and then it's got this dual action adjustability with the
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button on the bottom and the knob at the back to accommodate pretty much
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any size of noggin look at that i o and specs are about
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what you'd expect for a modern computer phone
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a modern thing with a usb type-c port on the side for charging 64 gigs of
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internal storage and microsd expansion of up to 256 gigs the other side then
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features a power button with status led and volume controls and a headphone jack
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it also comes with a little daydream remote oh there it is
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that while fairly simple indesign works pretty well for the types of games that
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you'll be playing on a device like this which i guess means it's time to get
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started i'm gonna fire up some blade runner here so most of that seems pretty
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normal so far for a vr headset so while
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Jake's getting blade runner fired up i want to talk you guys through what's
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really different here the front is where things get really
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interesting sorry here you go so the mirage's dual 13 megapixel
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front-facing cameras power some new tech from google called world sense
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so in combination with the usual internal inertial sensors like a
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gyroscope and a magnetometer magnetic meter magnetometer magnet is that right
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and a magnetometer these cameras allow
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for six degrees of freedom of movement
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that means the headset not only tracks your head but also walking
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dodging leaning whatever you can pretty much move
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however you want and information collected from the cameras should allow
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the headset to keep track of where you are because even the best gyroscope is
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going to be subject to some degree of drift now if you do
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obstruct the view of the cameras or the room is too dark worldsense will
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automatically fall back to tracking just your head then once the camera's
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vision improves it resumes full spatial tracking and can even remember where you
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were it's pretty darn cool
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do you have a setup yet uh i know how to do that i am
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the world's biggest professional of all time
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we have accomplished more than any other
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media group hey i'm happy for you all right
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uh you could try the eclipse game what
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do i do uh i don't you should probably stand up i feel like this is definitely
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a better game to be standing up uh sure okay
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you want to reset your view i mean it's definitely still powered by
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phone graphics like i don't want to set unrealistic expectations for people
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and the tracking the tracking is what impresses me
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compared to other phone based vr solutions that i've tried before
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so this one's pretty cool and a couple of the other games that kind of stood
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out over the last week or so are fire escape and then blade runner
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revelations depending on whether you're more into
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puzzle solving action or or story
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now with that said if educational content is more your jam the bbc
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actually created an incredible underwater exploration of the california
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coast and google has a tech demo that they're calling audio factory now it's
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mostly just a showcase for simulated spatial sound
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but it's also a good bit of fun especially since it's free
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also for the non-gamers youtube vr can be a great reason to try out vr i mean
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everyone knows i think already that you can watch regular videos like LTT
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like they're on a big screen but there's also thousands of existing vr 180 and vr
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360 videos on the platform and next vr even lets you watch nba league pass
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games courtside in vr
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and we're adding one more thing that you might want to watch uh where is it
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ah thank you this is the mirage camera so it's a
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lightweight point-and-shoot style vr 180
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camera featuring dual 13-megapixel wide-angle cameras capable of shooting
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30 FPS 4k vr 180 video so it supports
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either saving content directly to your phone as a 2d video uploading it
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straight to youtube or even live streaming at up to 4k vr 180 also to
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youtube without any configuration required whatsoever so we are going to
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be using this to do a vr tour of our office that you'll be able to watch over
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on the lenovo youtube channel now the idea behind recording
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180 degrees rather than 360 is that it
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doesn't require image stitching which improves the image quality and it can
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help with both ensuring that people don't interfere with what you're trying
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to film and maintaining the focus of your viewers
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vr 180 can also be used to provide a super cool stereo 3d experience when you
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watch the footage back on a vr headset it's actually
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really trippy uh go check out the vr 180
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studio tour that we made in partnership with lenovo we're going to have that linked in the video description and it
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is best viewed with a head-mounted display like the mirage headset or a
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google cardboard so if you have one try it out and then after that if you're
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interested in picking up a mirage solo headset or the mirage camera check out
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the links in the description and then we also have links down there to a couple of other creators who also made videos
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on the two devices we featured today so thanks again to lenovo for sponsoring
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this video thanks to you guys for watching if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it
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hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the
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video description okay i kind of already said that but it's part of the standard outro what am i going to do at this
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point also down there is our merge storage has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should
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definitely join