Vivo's $1,400 Apple Vision Pro Clone Launches Across China

Chinese smartphone shaper Vivo connected Thursday unveiled its archetypal mixed world headset, the "Vivo Vision," and the photocopiers successful Dongguan look to person been moving overtime.


The instrumentality "launched" arsenic an in-store acquisition crossed mainland China today, featuring plan elements that intelligibly ape Apple's Vision Pro. It's got a curved solid beforehand visor, downward-pointing cameras, removable cloth airy seals successful 4 sizes, 8 foam padding options, a knitted rear strap, and an aluminum outer artillery battalion connected via a braided cable. The Vivo Vision "Explorer Edition" adjacent offers enactment for 1.5-degree oculus tracking and 26 degrees extent of tract for gesture-based navigation.

To its credit, Vivo's clone has immoderate competitory specifications. The dual 8K micro-LED displays supply 3,840 × 3,552 pixels per oculus – somewhat higher than the Vision Pro's solution – and offers 180-degree panoramic tract of view. At 398 grams, it's importantly lighter than Apple's 650-gram device. Vivo besides claims its headset is 26 percent smaller than the "industry average."

As for software, the headset runs connected OriginOS Vision, Vivo's in-house mixed world operating system, which is said to connection ultra-low latency of conscionable 13ms. As you'd expect, it supports signaling 3D videos, spatial photos, and spatial audio. Users tin besides immerse themselves successful a 120-inch cinema screen.

Pricing is expected astatine astir 10,000 yuan (roughly $1,395), which is good beneath Apple's Vision Pro $3,499 starting price. Pre-orders are present unfastened for the device, though Vivo has yet to corroborate availability details, giving Apple plentifulness of clip to see its ineligible options.

Joking aside, this isn't the archetypal Chinese Apple knock-off that we've seen by a agelong stretch, positive there's nary denotation that Vivo's headset is coming to planetary markets beyond China. The Vision Pro has sold poorly anyway, truthful the interaction connected Apple's bottommost enactment is apt to beryllium minimal.


Apple is presently moving connected a next-generation mentation of the Vision Pro with an M5 chip, based connected codification discovered by MacRumors. The refreshed Vision Pro isn't expected to diagnostic immoderate plan changes oregon hardware updates speech from the caller chip, but it could get a caller strap that volition marque it much comfy to deterioration for longer periods of time. The Vision Pro 2 with M5 spot could motorboat arsenic soon arsenic precocious 2025.
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