I believe that players who pay attention to the VR field will know Pico, which has focused on mobile virtual reality technology and product research and development for many years, and the technology precipitation is very deep. At the end of last year, Pico released its new VR all-in-one Pico neo, which added the 6dof function support of the head hand, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 platform, bringing a new VR immersive experience!
Pico neo is divided into two versions of the commercial version and the basic version, both using snapdragon 835 mobile platform, 4gb high-speed ram, 64gb ufs2.1 rom, 3K resolution screen, refresh rate of 90hz, the difference between the commercial version and the basic version is that the commercial version has two 6dof positioning handles, and the basic version has only one 3dof positioning handle. We are reviewing the basic version.
Out-of-the-box experience:
Pico neo with white packaging box, simple and beautiful design!
Open the box, the layout is very reasonable.
The accessories have an instruction manual, power charger, type-c cable, wiping cloth, and a 3dof positioning handle.
Pico neo host adopts a white ash simple design, in order to ventilate and dissipate heat and reduce weight, the front panel is wrapped in a breathable structure silicone veneer mask wrapped in a hollow lightweight polymer panel, which is a magic design! There is an ultrasonic transmitter at the white panel, and in the black area of the lower part of the panel, a binocular camera is used for the spatial positioning of the head 6dof.
The rest of the pico neo uses a lightweight polymer with a mimetic pu body covering, also to reduce weight, and the mass of this product is 380g.
There is a power button on the bottom of the helmet, an app key, a confirmation key, and a home button in the right ear, and a volume key and a headphone hole in the left ear.
The eyepiece lenses of the pico neo are Fresnel lenses, which is also the best choice for the eyepieces of vr equipment today. The fresnel lens has a glossy surface on one side and concentric circles from small to large on the other. This special lens can make the field of view larger under the premise of thin and light. Above the center of the eyepiece, there is a distance sensor.
The pico neo is equipped with a 3dof positioning handle.
In terms of wearing, pico neo's many designs guarantee the comfort of its wearing effect, even if it is worn for a long time, there will be no discomfort.
Experience:
In terms of wearing, the pico neo's ring headband weight distribution is reasonable, comfortable to wear, regardless of distance adjustment, so you can wear glasses, wearing comfort can already be better than most VR products on the market.
The pico neo is equipped with three magic patches of removable cushioning that can be installed to your liking.
Pico neo's two eyepieces reach 1440x1600 resolution, the picture is combined to a resolution of 2880 x1600, the screen material is lcd, if it becomes an amoled screen, I believe that the color and picture will look better, but the corresponding grain and color edge impact will increase, and the amoled screen time will burn the screen for a long time. I believe that Pico will also consider it for a long time before deciding to use lcd screens.
The refresh rate of pico neo reaches 90hz, which means that 90 frames per second are refreshed, while the refresh rate of ordinary movies is only 24 or 30 frames. In terms of use, the screen experience is very natural and smooth, and the high refresh rate also fundamentally reduces the vertigo caused by vr devices.
Pico neo supports head 6dof technology (6 degree of freedom, six degrees of freedom), in the general VR device is still 3dof, pico neo's 6dof technology can be described as a future experience. So what exactly is 6dof?
There are a total of 6 degrees of freedom, which can be divided into two different types: translation and rotation. There are three degrees of freedom in translation: forward/backward, up/down, left/right, and rotation also has three degrees of freedom: pitch, roll, and yaw. Most of the VR on the market now is supported by 3dof technology, you can see the virtual reality world by tilting and turning your head, but you can't look down to see objects on the floor because the system can't accurately determine the position of the head, which is also a fatal flaw of 3dof technology.
But 6dof is different, it can distinguish both translation and rotation.
Pico's way to achieve 6dof is to add a stereoscopic fisheye lens composed of dual cameras on the front of the device, which can obtain an ultra-wide field of view. When using the pico neo, two fisheye lenses work together, scanning the surrounding environment at 30 frames per second, calculating the distance from the scene through the triangulation principle, and then plotting spatial position information, ultimately providing a centimeter-level 6dof experience.
Through Pico neo's 6dof technology, as long as the head moves towards the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis of the space axis and rotates, it can be clearly recorded, and the picture simulates these changes to produce a virtual scene, and we can feel a sense of "immersion".
Pico neo has a dual-platform advantage, in addition to the native pico store, it also comes pre-installed with viveport stores, pico store currently has 150+ vr games, while viveport stores only have a small number of models.
Pico store app store
viveport store
We download a few to play.
Open My Apps and you'll find the games and apps we downloaded earlier.
The screen is clear and smooth, the spatial movement feedback is very sensitive, you can clearly dodge the attack, you can also position the accurate shooting, the whole game down the experience is excellent.
We can also watch VR movies inside, which has an online theater and an iQiyi VR.
In the online theater, we watched "The Old Man Who Picked Up Dreams", and the whole person seemed to be in the scene of the movie, and we could turn our heads to look at the scenes before and after, left and right, as well as up and down, which can be said to be very shocking.
iQiyi VR is similar to the feeling of watching a 3D movie in a movie theater.
In terms of settings, we can see that there are settings such as wifi, Bluetooth, handle connection, application management, display, speaker, etc. In terms of display, pico intimately added brightness adjustment and eye protection mode.
summary
The overall experience down, pico neo whether it is the appearance of the appearance, experience comfort or hardware quality are extremely high, its hands-on experience is very good, its content is currently in the effort to enrich, pico store will be launched in 2018 more than 100 games, and film and television resources have two thousand, and it is also cooperating with the htc platform, the two platform resources are seamlessly shared. However, in terms of price, the commercial version is 5299 yuan, but there are two more 6dof handles, and the price is somewhat high. The basic version is 3999 yuan, which can be said to be competitive in the market with its material degree and experience. If you want to try a high-end VR experience, you might as well give it a try.