A
couple of months ago, Chinese tech giant Huawei had officially announced its
much-awaited VR product in its home market — Huawei VR Glass. Today, the device
will go on sale in China, carrying a price tag of 2,999 yuan which is roughly US$ 428.
Coming
to the product, as the name itself suggests, it is a virtual reality headset.
The Huawei VR Glass has lens barrel thickness of 26.6mm which is almost
one-third of that of Oculus Quest and HTC Vivo Pro. It weighs around 166 grams
and the temples come with a foldable design and it has a distance adaptation of
55 to 71 mm.
Huawei
has said that the glasses can be adjusted in the range of 0-degree to
700-degree myopia, 55mm to 71mm distance adaptive, comes with a breathable
sunshade mask and is quite comfortable while wearing, even for a prolonged use.
The
company says that the device is ergonomically designed to fit the face. It uses
protein leather material which is soft and comfortable, the elastic mask
magnetic suction is removable and the myopic groups do not need to wear
additional glasses.
As
for the specifications, the VR Glass offers screen resolution of 3200 x 1600
pixels with up to 1058PPI pixel desnity, 90-degree field-of-view, 70/90Hz
refresh rate. It comes with 3D sound effects and provides IMAX giant
screen-like experience.
The
mirror leg of Huawei VR Glass comes with dual speakers that offer a wide sound
field, built-in dual SmartPA, and supports 3D sound stereo. It can also be
connected with Bluetooth headphones. The
company says that it will have access to 30,000 hours of VR video from the
content resources, along with three major VR live broadcast platform and more
than 100 virtual reality games.
