2021 is a year full of changes for many VR companies, some hardware companies have seen the feasibility of "game" positioning, turned to home consoles, achieved good results, and content producers have also hitched a ride on the express train of the times; others have embarked on the road of meta-universe exploration, as pioneers and flag bearers, laying a "ladder" to "oasis" for us.
From the 2016 of the VR fire to today's FEW VR companies, Dapeng VR is one of them. In October this year, Otomo VR released a new 3Dof VR all-in-one P1 Ultra 4K.
Today we will objectively show you the most realistic P1 Ultra 4K.
In fact, at the beginning of the month, we have done a disassembly evaluation of this equipment, and basically understand the excellent manufacturing process and safe design concept of P1 Ultra 4K. Today we will taste it from the perspective of practical use.
From the opening of the box, open the box to take out the integrated machine, you can immediately feel its heavy feel. The overall weight of the P1 Ultra 4K is 450g, which is slightly bulky in today's C-end products competing to take the light and thin route. However, the P1 Ultra 4K mask chose a sponge with good thickness and support, and the overall wearing feeling is still relatively comfortable.
In terms of appearance, the P1 Ultra 4K still continues the design style of the Dapeng P series all-in-one machine, only adding a blue border to the front face as a distinction from other products in the same series.
In terms of display, the P1 Ultra 4K adopts a 4K Fast-LCD screen, with a resolution of 3840*2160, a refresh rate of 75Hz, and a field of view of 100°. What about the specific visuals? We also compared with other 4K all-in-one machines on the market, and the overall visual display is similar, there is no qualitative difference.
However, the 4K resolution is indeed much better than the display effect of 2K in the previous two years, there is no graininess, the overall is very clear, and the color is relatively full. At the same time, the P1 Ultra 4K has obtained the TUV Rheinland Low Blue Light Certification, which guarantees minimal damage to the eyes.
In addition, the P1 Ultra 4K supports interpupillary distance adaptation, and the overall effect is not bad, but if the degree of myopia is relatively high, it may also need to wear glasses. In fact, I still prefer the design of the early M2 PRO, which supports the adjustment of object distance myopia below 700°. I don't know why, now almost all manufacturers have removed this function, the future or hope that VR all-in-one devices can increase this function, after all, wearing glasses will always be some inconvenience.
In terms of processors, Dapeng VR P1 Ultra 4K uses an enhanced Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip, 10nm process, CPU architecture Kryo385 octa-core, GPU architecture Adreno630, through the comparison of authoritative running software such as Antu Rabbit, 3DMark, etc., compared with similar products equipped with Snapdragon 835, P1 Ultra 4K equipped with Snapdragon 845 chips has achieved a comprehensive lead, of which CPU/memory performance has increased by more than 30%.
▲Comparison of 3DMark test results
In terms of battery life, the P1 Ultra 4K uses a 4000mAh large-capacity battery, combined with the excellent performance of the Snapdragon 845 in power control, the actual endurance is more than 4 hours. Compared with the similar headset equipped with a 3500mAh battery with only 3 hours of battery life, the P1 Ultra 4K has obvious advantages. Moreover, P1 Ultra 4K uses Type-C interface and supports 2-hour fast charging.
In terms of operation interaction, P1 Ultra 4K's switch, speaker, adjustment button, especially touchpad control, the entire operation logic is more humane than other VR devices on the market that use physical confirmation buttons, which are more humane and easy to master. It can make the contemporary people who are accustomed to the smooth and silky smart phone seamlessly operate, which greatly reduces the learning cost of ordinary people.
In terms of content, P1 Ultra 4K comes with 3D movies and panoramic video resources, supports VIVEPORT, and is also the standard content of the Dapeng VR all-in-one.
But what really amazes us about the P1 Ultra 4K is the actual effect of watching industry VR content that is highly compatible with the model. This time, there are XR courseware creation tools that experience Butterfly VR education, red education, car dismantling, chemistry experiment class, and ceramics class of Teacher VR education. The content of the courseware runs smoothly in P1 Ultra 4K, the picture quality is clear, and the viewing process is particularly immersive.
Butterfly VR Education's courseware creation tool allows teachers to quickly and batch produce immersive XR courseware without knowing programming, just by simply dragging and assembling. For example, in the geography class, students can wear the P1 Ultra 4k, walk into the VR world, immerse themselves in the vast universe, personally feel the solar system, learn the operation rules of the 8 planets; in the language class, they can cross to the racecourse of "Tianji Horse Racing" and personally feel the charm of traditional culture. Stimulate students' interest in learning and cultivate students' scientific literacy.
(Butterfly VR Education)
Watching the Zunyi conference courseware of Mengke VR education, unlike the past, which can only learn about red history from books and documentaries, the P1 Ultra 4K all-in-one machine can directly take you to the Zunyi conference site and truly "listen" to the major decisions that changed history. In the "True 4K" HD scene and surround sound, the solemnity and grandeur of history come to the fore.
(MENGKE VR Education)
The car dismantling course and chemical experiment course of Mengke VR Education are also surprising! The structural layout and assembly of the car are clearly layered in the VR scene; the chemical experiment can also be repeatedly simulated in the VR scene to verify the results.
The ceramics course featuring TEACHER VR education also excelled in the P1 Ultra 4K. You can use VR to create unique pottery in a comfortable guzheng song. Not only is the texture detail of the pottery highly realistic, but the surrounding scene also gives you an immersive feeling. (Unfortunately, GIFs will have some compression of the picture quality, and cannot fully show the effect seen with the P1 Ultra 4K all-in-one machine)
(Teacher VR Education)
Seeing these practical application effects, it is not difficult to understand why Dapeng VR wants to launch such a product as P1 Ultra 4K in 2021.
At present, looking at the entire VR industry market, the B-end industry application represented by the education scene has accelerated. From the actual needs and application scenarios of customers, we can find that in fact, P1 Ultra 4K is more suitable for customized industry applications. The powerful performance of qualcomm Snapdragon 845, the high adaptability of "true 4K", the low blu-ray certification of the German Rheinland TUV, and the ultra-long battery life of 4h+ are enough to give the P1 Ultra 4K a strong competitiveness in the VR industry, especially in the education market.
In addition, P1 Ultra 4K is also the first product in China to propose modularization and customization. The so-called modularity is to reserve the interface and enough space on the motherboard to provide customers with technical choices such as eye tracking, brain-computer interface, gesture recognition, etc., and customize it into an accessible module according to customer needs.
After all, the integration of all the functions of the headset, not only expensive, many of which are more redundant for customers, and the modular solution is to successfully help customers meet the needs while reducing costs, reducing the burden of equipment landing, it can be said that the formation of 1 = N effect. This is a very innovative feature at present, and may also be a trend in the future, in short, we think that the road of customization and modularization is promising.
However, according to our understanding, these high-end customization functions have certain research and development difficulties, especially gesture recognition, eye tracking, iris recognition, etc., may not even dare to despise large companies with strong research and development strength, how to perform on P1 Ultra 4K, we are still looking forward to it.
(Camera module renderings)
At last:
I wish that the entire VR industry can develop more stably and benignly, cultivate the technology well, and polish the products well.
At the same time, I also hope that Dapeng VR can have a more eye-catching performance in the coming year.