On December 14, OPPO released a number of innovative products on the first day of INNO DAY, including Mariana X NPU chip, OPPO Air Glass smart glasses and so on. As OPPO's last blockbuster conference this year, it can be described as a continuous surprise. After the meeting, Jiang Bo, senior director of OPPO chip products, and Xu Yi, technical director of OPPO XR, accepted exclusive interviews with the media.
Jiang Bo (left) Xu Yi (right)
Mariana X
How does Mariana X compare to other professional imaging ISPs?
In fact, it is not OPPO, and now many companies are doing professional imaging ISPs, so the release of Mariana X has also attracted a lot of attention. Of course, the most popular thing is to compare Mariana X with other professional imaging ISPs, to which Jiang Bo also responded to the difference between the two at the media conference. Jiang Bo said that Mariana X is more focused on how to solve the problem of unlocking the potential of computing images through NPU. It's really hard to evaluate how the two are different, because isps are part of the overall image processing chain, and there are many different modules. I also don't know how other people do it, so I can't give a standard answer.
How to make such an advanced process of tape-out in 3 years?
When some media mentioned how the team did it in less than three years from the establishment of the team to the launch of the first chip, Jiang Bo responded that since joining the OPPO chip team in 2019, the entire team has been pursuing the ultimate concept in research and development. It is true that it is difficult to make a chip, but everyone has the same pursuit, especially when it comes to tape-out, from taking it back to entering the laboratory, without a trace of delay, everyone is very excited.
Then Jiang Bo added that our tape-out was successful, not only were we surprised, but even our partners were asking OPPO if it would change? It can be said that we should be considered relatively lucky, a direct mass production.
OPPO Chip Product Senior Director Jiang Bo
At the moment of chip shortage, will Mariana X be contained?
Coinciding with the current global chip shortage, some media asked whether it would contain the adoption of Mariana X in subsequent products. Jiang Bo said bluntly that according to the current planning and forecasting, it has been accurately and timely coordinated with upstream suppliers, and as far as I am concerned, production capacity is not a problem.
Finally, on the question of oppo's future planning of self-developed chips, Jiang Bo said frankly: "We are still focusing on Mariana X today, we are the first product, today OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong also said, this is our first product, follow-up products We may wait until the right time to share with you." ”
OPPO Air Glass
Why did OPPO Air Glass choose such a form?
When oppo Air Glass debuted, it really surprised many friends. As for why OPPO wants to make such a form of product, Xu Yi said that we have released AR glasses in THE PAST two years, the first year is integrated, we have accumulated a lot of experience; last year, according to the first generation in the wearability to make improvements, but we still feel that "can not wear out.". So this year, we made such a monocular shape, hoping to let users really wear it out and feel this easy-to-use and functional product. Whether it's hardware or user needs, this is the kind of form we end up doing.
Yi Xu, Technical Director of OPPO XR
How to make consumers develop the habit of wearing OPPO Air Glass?
For users, the field of smart glasses is both strange and familiar, but at present, almost no consumers have the habit of wearing smart glasses, and some media have asked how OPPO makes people "wear" glasses? In this regard, Xu Yi said that at the beginning of the design, this problem was considered, and to solve this problem, we considered how to quickly take it off when the user did not want to use it. So we have adopted a custom frame magnetic suction method, when needed, you can quickly magnetically absorb on the glasses, when not needed, put back into the so-called charging compartment. We also hope that such a design can guide the formation of consumer behavior.
Why monochromatic design?
In the process of the conference, many careful friends have found that OPPO Air Glass uses a green monochrome display design. In this regard, some media asked, why is there no design of red, green and blue? Xu Yi said bluntly that this was decided after weighing the wearability, although the RGB tri-color may bring better presentation, but for the core function of OPPO Air Glass, the information is quickly brought to the user's eyes, the role is not obvious. OPPO Air Glass is not a product that allows users to see images and images, but brings information to the user in a quick way, so combined with the size of the tricolor hardware, the monochrome design is finally determined.
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