Since 2015, the domestic virtual reality industry has grown crazily, with a trend of catching up with and surpassing the mobile phone boom. Among many virtual reality products, virtual reality helmets are highly sought after. The reason is not only that their products are less heavy than traditional virtual reality devices, but also that they are more convenient for everyone to use with mobile phone screens as the carrier. The most important one is that their price is very low and they are more easily accepted by consumers. The Pico 1 I'm going to show you today is a virtual reality helmet with a mobile phone screen as the carrier.
appearance
Pico 1's packaging box is very large. Like other virtual reality helmets on the market, it is stuffed with a large number of buffer protection foam. When you open the package, you can see a Pico 1 helmet body, head strap, instructions, Pico VR membership card, dust removal cotton cloth, and a data line.
Pico 1 helmet adopts the main structure of high-strength polycarbonate material, and uses black and white mixed color matching. The front is made of transparent material, the back is made of skin like multi-layer foam, and the left and right sides and the top are fixed with bandages. The overall style is hard.
There is a sandwich on the left side of Pico 1 helmet for placing mobile phones. The sandwich is also of exquisite workmanship. There is an elastic buffer sponge in the sandwich, which is suitable for mobile phones of different sizes and plays a role of reinforcement. In addition, Pico 1 helmet has certain requirements on the size of mobile phone screen. The mobile phone screen placed in the sandwich should preferably be between 5.0 inches and 5.7 inches.
In order to facilitate user control, the buttons of Pico 1 helmet are concentrated on the right side of the helmet. A round button on the right side is the return/menu button and a bar volume button. In addition, there is a small touch pad that can be used to control the mobile phone after wearing the helmet.
The top of the helmet is a sight distance adjustment gear and a power key, while the bottom is equipped with a 3.5mm headphone interface and a Micro USB interface for Pico 1 charging.
spare parts
experience
Before use, we first long press the power key of Pico 1 to turn on Bluetooth, then search for Bluetooth Pico 1 through the mobile phone, and then pair and connect. After connecting to Pico 1 Bluetooth, we can open the official Pico VR to download the corresponding VR games and videos.
Screenshot of game phone in Pico VR
Pcio 1 The first perspective of virtual reality helmet viewing
Cinema seat effect created by software
There are many video and game resources available for download in Pico VR, including the Avengers Alliance 2, Terminator 5, Avatar, etc. We are familiar with that. Due to the large amount of information in VR video, a video in just a few minutes requires hundreds of megabytes of traffic, and a movie may require several gigabytes. Therefore, we recommend that you connect to Wi Fi before you start downloading.
Most of the current VR games are Parkour/Shooting. In the game, we control the direction of the characters through the rotation of the head, and can switch the perspective 360 ° in all directions.
When watching 3D VR movies, the movie resources in Pico VR will switch the video background into a cinema projection hall, creating a real immersive 3D experience, which really has the illusion of a real cinema. If the virtual reality device wants to create a real immersive experience, the field angle of its lens must be close to or greater than the field angle of the human eye, and the field angle of view that can be clearly observed by the human eye is 30 °~100 ° (slightly different from people), while the field angle of the lens of Pico 1 helmet is 96 °, so its actual experience effect is also very excellent. Pico 1 helmet, this cinema mode will The visual field is directly separated from the reality, and the effect of watching the film is very shocking. It even feels like watching IMAX-3D in the cinema.
summary
As a virtual reality helmet, Pico 1 tries to create an immersive experience for users through high transmittance wide-angle lenses. Wearing the helmet is another world. However, since the experience of Pico 1 VR helmet is limited by the quality of mobile screen and movie resources, it is recommended that you use high-resolution mobile screen to download high-quality movie resources.
At present, this Pico 1 virtual reality helmet is still in JD's crowdfunding, so friends who are interested in virtual reality might as well try it.
