One other Imaginative and prescient Professional knock-off is coming to city, and this time it even has the ‘Imaginative and prescient’ identify.
Whereas not a family identify, China’s Vivo is understood for its smart, mid-range smartphones, commonly rating it within the prime 5 smartphone creators by market share.
Now, on the Boao Discussion board for Asia in China’s Hainan Province as we speak, the corporate confirmed off its first entry into the XR phase: Vivo Imaginative and prescient.
In a press assertion, Vivo says the transfer comes as a broader push to pursue each robotics and XR gadgets, referring to Vivo Imaginative and prescient as “a major milestone in vivo’s exploration of blended actuality expertise.”
Whereas Vivo Imaginative and prescient is predicted to be formally unveiled in mid-2025, specifics are nonetheless skinny on the bottom, with notable query marks surrounding the MR headsets specs, working system, launch date, international availability, worth—just about the whole lot in addition to the gadget’s externals.
A show mannequin was current at Vivo’s sales space at Boao Discussion board for Asia nonetheless, revealing the corporate is taking various design cues from Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, together with its distinctive headstrap design, digital crown button, and magnetically-tethered exterior battery.
Notably, Vivo’s fleet of smartphones run modified variations of Android, with Funtouch OS used as its global-facing OS, and Origin OS used for these shipped in China.
As Vivo’s first XR gadget, it’s potential the corporate might try the identical feat with Google’s upcoming Android XR OS, which is being launched with Samsung’s upcoming blended actuality, ‘Undertaking Moohan’, which is alleged to launch someday this 12 months, though that’s pure hypothesis for now.
This marks a rising pattern of look-alike Imaginative and prescient Professionals arriving from Chinese language producers, with the primary notable arriving from Play for Dream; its MR headset not solely stole the present at CES 2025 earlier this 12 months, but additionally garnered excessive reward from former Quest engineer Amanda Watson, who referred to as it “completely the very best throughout HMD demo I noticed on the ground as we speak.”
