{"id":19366,"date":"2018-05-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317630"},"modified":"2018-05-04T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:00:00","slug":"lenovo-opens-orders-for-its-standalone-daydream-vr-headset-mirage-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/lenovo-opens-orders-for-its-standalone-daydream-vr-headset-mirage-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo opens orders for its standalone Daydream VR headset, Mirage Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/tablets\/virtual-reality-and-smart-devices\/virtual-and-augmented-reality\/lenovo-mirage-solo\/Mirage-Solo\/p\/ZZIRZRHVR01\">opened up orders<\/a> for its Google Daydream-powered VR headset the Mirage Solo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Priced at $399.99, the standalone VR headset runs without the assistance of a smartphone or PC and is notably the first to use Google\u2019s WorldSense positional tracking technology. Thanks to that tech, the Mirage Solo is able to offer inside-out tracking and track a range of movement without the need for any kind of external sensor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sudden availability\u00a0of the Mirage Solo notably falls just days after VR rival Oculus launched its own standalone VR headset, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317325\/Oculus_opens_orders_for_its_200_standalone_VR_headset_Oculus_Go.php\">Oculus Go,<\/a> for about half the price of\u00a0Lenovo\u2019s latest offering. Both of the soon-to-ship head-mounted displays offer virtual reality without a PC or smartphone connection, but the Oculus Go doesn\u2019t offer the level of positional tracking boasted by the Mirage Solo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/google-vr\/new-daydream-headset-and-vr180-camera-now-available\/\">Google notes<\/a> that Lenovo\u2019s headset has access to the over 350 games, apps, and experiences already in the Daydream library at launch and that at least 70 of those titles, including <em>Blade Runner: Revelations<\/em> and <em>Rez Infinite,<\/em> offer additional enhancements or features that make use of the WorldSense positional tracking tech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The headset itself weighs about a pound and a half, lasts 2.5 hours on a single battery charge, and houses a Qualcomm 835 chipset, 4 GB of RAM, and a 2560 x 1440 LCD screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Lenovo has launched a VR camera alongside the headset that allows for the capture of video and images with a 180-degree field of view, then viewable from within the Mirage Solo. Orders for the $299\u00a0Mirage Camera are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.lenovo.com\/us\/en\/tablets\/virtual-reality-and-smart-devices\/virtual-and-augmented-reality\/lenovo-mirage-camera\/Mirage-Camera\/p\/ZZIRZRCVR04\">open as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has opened up orders for its Google Daydream-powered VR headset the Mirage Solo.\u00a0 Priced at $399.99, the standalone VR headset runs without the assistance of a smartphone or PC and is notably the first to use Google\u2019s WorldSense positional tracking technology. Thanks to that tech, the Mirage Solo is able to offer inside-out tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}