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Lenovo has released a mixed reality business headphones because it aims to help companies of all sizes explore the possibilities of the metaverse.
The ThinkReality VRX all-in-one headset features a Snapdragon XR platform, pancake optics, four front-facing cameras with 6DoF tracking and two high-resolution pass-through cameras.
“Our customers are looking for reliable, flexible and scalable gateways to the growing Metaverse enterprise. They need business solutions for the new realities of working in hybrid scenarios and virtual environments,” said Vishal Shah, GM of XR and Metaverse, Lenovo.
Pancake look (folded look)
With color passthrough functionality enabled by “pancake lenses,” Lenovo’s new release looks to combine augmented and virtual reality into a sleeker mixed reality device.
Pancake Optics (Folded Optics) keeps lenses small while still focusing on the user. Through polarization, these lenses can determine which rays of light pass through them, then take each color and reflect it multiple times, returning the color, and then the image, in proper focus to the user at a fraction of the lens distance.
Unlike the recently released Quest Pro by Meta of Pico 4 by ByteDance, Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX is “the VR solution for workers everywhere,” the company says.
Lenovo notes that the device can offer options “from improving efficiencies in employee training and virtual collaboration to expanding design and” technical tasks in 3DExtended reality (XR) technologies are becoming more important than ever for companies that enable hybrid workers to do more.”
Lenovo states that using virtual reality, companies see four times faster training on soft skills, 275% more confidence in soft skills and a 43% reduced injury risk.
Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX headset will be available as early access units in late 2022 and released worldwide in early 2023, but pricing information will remain unknown until release.