- Hey guys, this is Austin.
I might not have a voice today,
but what I do have is the Lenovo Mirage Solo with Daydream.
Do you see what I did there?
This is a very different way of doing VR,
and this is a very different way
for me to talk in my videos, 'cause I'm sick.
Of course, huge shout out to Lenovo
for sponsoring this video.
What makes the Mirage Solo a little bit different
is this is a properly powerful untethered VR headset.
Inside, you'll find a 2560x1440p 75Hz display.
Now, that high resolution,
especially paired with the high frame rate,
is really key to making the VR experience feel natural.
One of the main advantages to using the Mirage Solo
is that this is a fully standalone headset.
I don't need to worry about my smartphone
being plugged in and draining battery,
and it's also a much smoother experience,
largely due actually to the fact
that it does have not only that high refresh rate display,
but importantly it also does support WorldSense,
so unlike most Daydream headsets
which do rely on a little bit more
of a limited bit of gyroscope
to be able to place you in the world,
we do have a full six degrees of freedom.
What's really cool about this
is that you can literally use it anywhere.
I mean, I'm in the middle of the park
and I could easily be playing a game, watching a movie.
It really does give you a lot of possibilities.
The Mirage Solo runs on Daydream, Google's VR ecosystem.
Surprisingly, it actually works really well.
You have most of the different apps and features
that you have on full Android,
just available in a headset form.
That means that we've got apps such as YouTube VR.
Now this will give you a ton of different options,
so if I jump in here, not only do we have full 360
and 180-degree video, which looks great on the headset,
but you can also watch standard 2D video like this.
The way that works is it literally looks like
I've just got a huge display in front of me,
like a movie theater or something.
So, thanks to Dead Trigger and a few zombie friends,
I can show a little bit more of the performance
of what you can actually expect out of the Mirage Solo.
Inside, we have pretty decent specs,
a Snapdragon 835 as well as four gigabytes of RAM.
That's bad, that's bad!
No, no, no, no!
You should get three hours of battery life
if you can survive the zombies that long,
but there are a ton of games and apps
that do work on the headset.
It's not all about the Mirage Solo, though.
There's also this little guy,
the Lenovo Mirage Camera with Daydream.
This is not a 360-degree camera.
It uses a pair of fisheye lenses up front
to give you a 180-degree field of view,
or as Google calls the format, VR180.
This is a demo of what video looks like
on the Mirage Camera.
One of the cool advantages of this format
is that while you still get all of the advantages of VR,
you still do get a very wide field of view, too.
This is a full 180 degrees.
What I like about this is that it gives you
a lot of flexibility when it comes to framing,
so we can still have Ken behind the camera doing Ken things,
but I can also pick up and very easily do
a little bit of vlogging.
The really cool part about this
is that because it is so wide,
I know that I can always get the shot,
and specifically, if you do have a smartphone,
you can actually scroll on the video
if you watch the raw stuff, link in the description,
but it's a really, really cool aspect
and a really cool way of shooting
you definitely don't get with any kind of standard camera.
You can control the camera as well as play back
the photos and videos using the VR180 app.
This is a little demo we took in the car a couple days ago.
As you can see, what's really cool about the 180 format
is that specifically on a smartphone you can pinch in,
you can zoom around, but you do get that
full 180-degree field of view.
The video is a lot more immersive
when you're watching it in the headset,
so it's kinda hard to give you a real demo
without actually having one of your own,
but it makes a huge difference,
and because the camera will shoot at a full 4K resolution,
we get those pixels all the way blown up.
It makes a really big difference.
I mean, I can see the detail on the gauges.
I can see the terrified look on Ken's face.
I can see Jay as he makes this tight corner,
and, oh, oh, whoa, yeah!
Oh, dude!
That actually feels really good
if I spin the chair as I see myself turn in the car.
It actually feels like I'm really there.
If you've never properly experienced VR
or maybe you've been turned off by cheap mobile VR,
the Lenovo Mirage Solo and Camera
are definitely worth a look,
and of course, I'll have a link
to check out both these guys in the description,
so those of you who want more information,
we'll have a bunch of other videos linked as well.