Zhi DongXi (public number: zhidxcom)
Author | Xu Shan
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Zhidong January 6 news, iQIYI Intelligence recently launched the Adventure Dream, Adventure Dream is the first domestic VR headset equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip, the price of less than 2,000 yuan.
Adventure Dream is equipped with two LCD screens, with a screen resolution of 2.5K, 8G+128G memory and the use of self-developed "light chasing" 6DOF VR interactive system.
At present, more and more VR headsets have begun to enter people's lives, whether it is playing games with friends or strengthening the interaction between parents and children, the VR headset of 1999 yuan has entered the scope that people began to consider.
▲ Sports VR games
What was the experience of Dream, an adventure that combines price and performance? Zhi Dong got the Adventure Dream for the first time, and after an in-depth experience, he felt the fun of VR.
First, the fool-level hands-on application, Adventure Dream improves head comfort
The adventure Dream fuselage made a new design, the first is to cancel the fixing belt on the head, the comfort of the head after wearing is greatly improved, and the front and rear fixation can rely on the rotation and twist of the rear to control the tightness of the wearing.
Moreover, the four corners of the headset have four cameras that can follow people's movements in reality, and convert the scene in time, and the top of the headset has a charging interface and a headphone interface.
Press and hold the power button, put on the headset, and enter the VR world. The first thing you see will be a basic design similar to your own home, which can be directly matched with the headset by long pressing the case on the handle, and then interact with the screen content through the knowledge line of the controller.
▲VR home
In addition, the screen will also display your current power consumption and network connection, so that users can directly understand the situation of the device.
From the perspective of basic performance, the Adventure Dream head is higher than the common VR headset comfort on the market, on the other hand, the Adventure Dream is easier to get started, which also reduces a certain consumer threshold.
Second, backed by iQIYI's massive content resources, Adventure Dream can control the playback progress by voice
One of the more important features of a VR headset is the movie-going experience. During the use of Adventure Dream, how to use VR to see a movie, how to use VR headset to see a movie experience how to become the focus of the evaluation.
In fact, Adventure Dream, which is backed by iQIYI, has a relatively large content resource library, and Adventure Dream comes with a VR version of the iQIYI app, which only needs to enter the application to watch movies directly. However, due to the limitation of most content due to membership mode, if you use VR as the main movie viewing tool for a long time, membership recharge will be the new paid content.
Of course, there are other applications in the application library of Adventure Dream, such as the VR version of CCTV. You can also watch your favorite programs by casting the screen, click on the B station to cast the screen, and select the corresponding Bluetooth to see that you can enjoy the happiness of the big screen directly in the Adventure Dream.
▲Share a variety of audio and video resources through the screen projection mode
After watching movies through different software, on the whole, it is still the best sense of viewing of iQiyi's own application software. Not only can you select episodes through the gamepad, but you can also adjust the progress through your voice. For example, you can say "fast forward 15 seconds", and after Dream recognizes the voice, the playback progress will be automatically adjusted.
Not only that, but what surprised me more was the film's display and gaze-following mode. Opening the iQIYI Cinema for the first time, the immersive movie-going experience makes people feel as if they are really in a movie theater.
And, the latest system updates allow users to enjoy the bullet screen when watching movies, just like other mobile devices.
▲Watch related variety shows through Adventure Dream
In addition, when you open the line of sight follow mode, the movie screen will no longer be fixed in a certain position, but automatically shift with your line of sight, basically after your line of sight changes, the movie screen can also be transferred in real time, the response is faster.
But the new product also has some problems to be solved, for example, when the voice control progress, there are often some unrecognizable situations. In addition, if you wear Adventure Dream on your head for too long, you will still feel a sense of weight, so it is difficult to watch the whole movie at once.
Third, the main shooting, sound game and other game scenes, Adventure Dream gives away 3 VR games
Games are the main application scenarios for many people to experience VR for the first time, and in many purchase reviews, we can find that most users who buy Adventure Dream are mainly for the VR game experience.
In the past week of VR use, I will spend 30-45 minutes a day on VR games, and I will try to experience most of Dream's games.
One of the more important points in VR games is that you need to have enough space for the game scene, on the one hand, when you go beyond the scope of the game scene, the game screen will be converted to a gray display screen, so as not to hurt you from touching other objects, on the other hand, in some exploration game scenes, there is not enough space for touch operations.
At present, Adventure Dream has launched more than 30 VR games, involving shooting, operation and other types. In addition, Adventure Dream will give away 3 games for free, "Sound Project", "Crisis Action Team 2", and "Professional Ping Pong VR". Like some voice-controlled games, users can not only feel the joy of the 3D version of the game, but also burn calories.
The game scenes in the game library are also constantly enriched, and new games with "upcoming release" can be seen every week, and the price of VR games is also more reasonable, generally between 40-90 yuan.
In the process of playing the game, most games involve space. Good experience. However, when some games involve the constant change of 3D space, the game experience may feel OK, but after taking off the VR title, there will be a feeling of dizziness, which takes a period of relaxation.
The game type and the small number of games are the main game problems at present, and the game has no trial experience, and the user is opening a "game blind box". On the other hand, most games are often in a single-player state, unable to interact with people, and the community experience needs to be improved.
On the hardware, because after running the program for a period of time, the sound of the internal machine running will be heard, and the computer is overheated, which will have a certain impact on the experience in the game.
Conclusion: Content ecology may become the key to VR popularization
This time, in the process of experiencing the adventure Dream, the price part and the movie viewing experience will bring people greater surprises. Although the current content ecosystem is not yet perfect and entertainment resources are limited, on the whole, Dream Adventure enters the consumer market at a price of 1999 yuan, which will be a good market entry.
According to Ai Media Consulting data, the size of China's VR/AR entertainment consumer application market will reach 8.748 billion yuan in 2025, and it is expected that the size of China's VR/AR entertainment consumer application market will reach 14.697 billion yuan in 2030; the scale of China's VR/AR game consumer application market will reach 6.804 billion yuan in 2025. Overall, the domestic VR/AR entertainment market is gradually expanding.
Mobile phones, computers are gradually "replacing" the entertainment methods of traditional TELEVISION, with the gradual rise of the market scale of VR equipment, VR/AR equipment content ecology or become the key to vr popularity, VR equipment will replace the current mobile phone, computer and other hardware to become a new mainstream entertainment carrier? We'll see.