Future of virtual reality on Smartphones

In 2013, the International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas (CES), we believe that virtual reality will become the future trend for the first time. You put on a huge nursing microscope, can enter into the virtual world, it really makes a person feel terrible, and Oculus Rift was only the first generation prototypes.

Two years later, HTC launched its Vive helmet but Oculus Rift is still the best and most well-known in the field of virtual reality equipment, just can't buy, of course, buy Sony Morpheus and Vive. But if you have a smart phone, you may not need these devices.

At the Google I/O Conference in June 2014, smartphones became a virtual reality device. Participants attended the meeting to get a "cardboard" Cardboard. After the real doubts, we found it to be a face helmet designed specifically for mobile phones, it has a dedicated phone socket, binds together two devices, and worn on the front. All of a sudden, you flew into the virtual environment YouTube videos and Google Street view. Compared with other products, Cardboard is the coolest of all innovations.

From the beginning of 2013 to the Google I/O Conference, spent just 16 months, virtual reality technology has already achieved "the clunky headgear" became a mobile device that can be tucked into the Pocket.

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Mobile phone has become the most important independent virtual reality equipment. Either Samsung, Avegant, Carl Zeiss (Carl Zeiss), or Apple Dodocase shell manufacturers, have begun to use smart phones as virtual reality technology to the core engine. Oculus also embraced smart phone even virtual reality through cooperation with Samsung, developed Gear VR.

In fact, according to the Samsung's virtual reality team leader Nick DiCarlo said, was thanks to Samsung Gear VR, programming legend John Carmack to persuade big names to join Oculus.

"We gave him the mobile version of virtual reality equipment, he said, ' Wow! With it, I can get more vision! '"

In last week's game developers Conference, Carmack believe that Oculus if you want to expand the scale of consumer electronic products, Samsung in the next release cycle, must face up to the mobile strategy.

Stress Smartphone virtual reality does not come as a surprise, because it has become a virtual reality technology of new paradise.

First, the Smartphone's screen quality is good, and there are strong enough processing power, completed to support a virtual reality movie or game.

In addition, the smart phone's built-in accelerometer and gyroscope can also support the head tracking. Oculus took two years to put their prototypes into commercial products and Google only had about a year's time, has sold 500,000 Cardboard devices.

More importantly, next generation Smartphone is really very, very strong, they can be fitted with 4K even more HD screen.

Powerful mobile computing, DiCarlo said,

"The Smartphone processing power even stronger than the Xbox 360 and relative than we currently used calculation speed is much faster, every few years, the phone's performance will be greatly improved. "

Samsung decided to continue to develop Gear VR, is the hope to build in new areas, DiCarolo believes that if consumers want to use virtual reality, cell phones will become a good way, because people familiar with Smartphones, but also likes to use.

"If you want the virtual reality could have greatly improved in the short term, the Smartphone is definitely a good channel. "

Ed Tang says, he is Avegant, founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the company who developed virtual reality headset Glyph looks like a futuristic version of the device. It uses the phone to display movies and games, all virtual reality experienced in headphones work. We simply need to connect mobile, you can get virtual reality experience.

Carl Zeiss is also very recognized Smartphone applications in the field of virtual reality. The company has ultra high definition cameras manufactured history, for them, the extensions to the normal virtual reality. They developed a virtual reality accessory VR One, the device is compatible with all 4.7 to 5.2-inch screen of the Smartphone.

Carl Zeiss and Avegant the two companies also hope to further in the field of virtual reality, they mainly focus on developing display technology, rather than the virtual reality software for smartphones, and hope eventually to achieve perfect integration with the Smartphone.

Virtual reality is a wearable device of the future?

However, we see that there is virtual reality startups Magic Leap, HoloLens at Microsoft, or even Google Glass, none of them smartphones as the core of virtual reality equipment. Tang, founder of Avegant believes that

"Virtual reality technology application in the wearable device. It may be a pair of glasses, may also be tied to a display on your head. We have already seen some embedded computer virtual reality experience. If that becomes a popular trend, developing virtual reality products based on smart phones today also means? "

However, Samsung, DiCarlo said, if you become the future trend of wearable virtual reality, it takes a long time, there is a lot of work needs to be done.

"Note 4 on the screen is the current acceptable minimum screen virtual reality technology, it can provide sufficient resolution, you can play 10K HD processing speed of 30 frames per second video, very smooth. Now the most important thing, is to solve the issue of Internet infrastructure. "

Indeed, we have a lot of work to do. Even the most immersive applications--games, are still not ready. Virtual reality games are too expensive, the film is also very time consuming resource consumption, which is a 360-degree immersive video, which lets the audience completely live, is a never before experience.

However, the development of virtual reality was still fast. Games are one of the people most familiar with the virtual reality market, but can also be used in many other areas, such as movies.

Recently stole the Oculus in the Sundance Film Festival, they launched a robotic dog and immersion micro films widely acclaimed.

Australia's Qantas, they provide Gear VR equipment for passengers in first class and let them on the road watching virtual reality movies.

Oculus and Samsung have also began to get involved in "casual virtual reality" area, Avegant also hope to develop more stylish suite of virtual reality, look not so ridiculous, and can meet the needs of people wear when train excursions.

In fact, we are still in the primary stage of development virtual reality, this technology need to be positioned in order to truly mature. After a few years, maybe your virtual reality equipment hanging on the glasses; or perhaps it can charge by a button on a shirt or even controlled by brain waves.

Virtual reality is a huge disruptive technology, when you live on in my couch, feeling that they are in the theater, this experience was revolutionary. Moreover, the Smartphone is powerful enough in the hands of people, and the price is acceptable. You can watch TV on their phones, and in front of not only 5-inch screen is so small, you can interconnect with good friends.

Of course, people also need to understand the revolutionary and subversive potential of virtual reality technology, and began to think of virtual reality applications. At present, people's enthusiasm for virtual reality technology is not high, and it is needed in the future to solve the problem.

Why can't we try virtual reality technologies? All you have to do, is the cell phone from his pocket.

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