Lenovo’s New Daydream Headset Works Without a Phone

A lot of companies are showing off some really amazing products at CES this twelvemonth, simply one that excites me the most is Lenovo'southward new VR headset. If you're thinking this is yet some other contraption that either simply works with high-end PCs, or with smartphones that are branded with the 'Daydream' tag, you couldn't be more than wrong.

The 'Lenovo Delusion Solo' is a Daydream headset, true, just one that works without any smartphone whatever. So if you skipped out on buying the Pixel, the Pixel 2, or the half a dozen or and so Fantasize capable smartphones out there, this will satiate your desire to experience Google'south version of Virtual Reality.

The 'Mirage Solo' is the VR equivalent of a plug-and-play USB mouse. Y'all only popular it in place (on your face) and y'all're expert to become. The headset uses Google's 'WorldSense' technology to do the magic, and if Lenovo's and Google's claims are to be believed, information technology's awe-inspiring.

According to Google, since the headset uses WorldSense, users will be able to perform a ton of new actions that would otherwise be incommunicable on the Fantasize platform. Users will be able to duck, contrivance, lean, step back and frontwards and even side to side — the headset will be to track movements in 3D space, and WorldSense is smart plenty to ensure the VR objects stay in place, but like they would in the existent world.

That's not all, though; the Lenovo Mirage Solo also comes with the capability to capture 180 caste VR videos, and so you can record your memories in Virtual Reality, in 4K, with a outcome that Google says is "far more immersive than what you lot get with a traditional camera" — we'll have to check that claim when we get our easily on this headset.

Inside, the 'Delusion Solo' is a daydream (pardon the pun) in and of itself. It is powered by a Snapdragon 835 processor, and 4GB of RAM, assuasive developers plenty of resources to develop keen apps.

If you're as excited about this as I am, slow your roll. Lenovo hasn't appear a price for the 'Delusion Solo' yet, and even so, the headset is gear up to be available merely during the second quarter of this year, so there'southward that. Other than that, this headset looks crawly to me, and I can't expect to endeavour it out. Looking like a robot from the time to come while giggling excitedly is what I dream of.