Play For Dream’s newest headset is a blatant Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional clone however with a Quest Professional fashion 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 then-undisclosed firm.
That fifth headset was revealed to be Sony’s, 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 right this moment 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 not like a budget Chinese language knockoff we tried at CES in January, this new headset really has the specs (although possible not the software program) to rival Apple.
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Qualcomm simply introduced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset utilized 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, greater decision than Imaginative and prescient Professional’s Sony panels, with a refresh fee of 90Hz and 92% DCI-P3 colour gamut, the identical as Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Its pancake lenses provide a claimed discipline of view of 103°, and the headset has eye monitoring for automated IPD adjustment and foveated rendering.
Along with eye monitoring, the headset options high-resolution colour passthrough with claimed latency of 14 milliseconds, a depth sensor, hand monitoring, and Contact Plus-like ringless tracked controllers.
The headset’s complete weight is precisely the identical as Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, 650 grams, however the distribution of this weight is vastly totally 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 Imaginative and prescient Professional.
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’d have anticipated from the reportedly canceled 2024 Quest Professional 2. Meta is now engaged on a “approach 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 private home Wi-Fi community (just like Digital Desktop, Steam Hyperlink, and Air Hyperlink on Quest).
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. Will probably be priced someplace under $2000 equal. There is no indication the corporate plans to launch the headset within the west, however we’ll hold an in depth eye on it over the following 12 months in case it does.
