Play For Dream’s newest headset is a blatant Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional clone however with a Quest Professional model rear battery.
When Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 in January, a higher-end variant of the chipset utilized in Meta Quest 3, the corporate informed UploadVR that it’ll energy Immersed’s Visor, Samsung’s upcoming Google-powered headset, a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a presently undisclosed firm.
That fifth headset was revealed to be Sony, and HTC nonetheless hasn’t revealed its headset.
As for YVR, a Chinese language standalone VR headset firm, it renamed itself to Play For Dream and at this time at an occasion in Malaysia revealed its XR2+ Gen 2 headset, known as Play For Dream MR.
Play For Dream MR’s design is clearly closely “impressed” by Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. However in contrast to the cheap Chinese knockoff we tried at CES in January, this new headset truly has the specs (although doubtless not the software program) to rival Apple.
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Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Quest 3.
The XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, Qualcomm’s strongest XR chip but, is paired with 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and both 512GB or 1TB of UFS 3.1 storage, relying on the mannequin you purchase.
The headset options twin 3840×3552 micro-OLED shows from BOE, larger decision than Vision Pro‘s Sony panels, with a refresh charge of 90Hz and 92% DCI-P3 colour gamut, the identical as Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Its pancake lenses provide a claimed area of view of 103°, and the headset has eye monitoring for automated IPD adjustment and foveated rendering.
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Along with eye monitoring, the headset options high-resolution colour passthrough with claimed latency of 14 milliseconds, a depth sensor, hand monitoring, and Touch Plus-like ringless tracked controllers.
The headset’s whole weight is precisely the identical as Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, 650 grams, however the distribution of this weight is vastly completely different. A curved battery is constructed into the again of the strap, just like the method Meta Quest Professional took.
Play For Dream MR claims the visor itself, stripped of any strap or face cowl, weighs simply 288 grams. That compares to 478 grams for Vision Pro.
Picture from Malaysian outlet Gamer Santai.
The battery on the rear of the strap can energy the headset for simply over 1 hour, and an included tethered exterior battery provides 2.5 hours for a complete of three.5 hours utilization.
All in all, Play For Dream MR’s specs and design are what we might have anticipated from the reportedly canceled 2024 Quest Professional 2. Meta is now working on a “method out sooner or later” successor as an alternative.
However this headset does not run Horizon OS, and even the Pico Retailer or Google’s upcoming Android XR. It runs Play For Dream’s personal Android-based platform, and in addition helps SteamVR streaming through your own home Wi-Fi community (just like Digital Desktop, Steam Hyperlink, and Air Hyperlink on Quest).
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Play For Dream MR is about to launch in China quickly, Singapore and Malaysia in October, after which Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan someday in 2025. It is going to be priced someplace under $2000 equal. There is not any indication the corporate plans to launch the headset within the west, however we’ll maintain a detailed eye on it over the subsequent yr in case it does.