The 2018 MWC Shanghai was held from June 27 to 29. Vivo, the global smartphone brand, brought the AI smart flagship vivo NEX and the popular product vivo X21 FIFA World Cup Extraordinary Edition to Shanghai, bringing an extraordinary smart phone experience to the on-site exhibitors.
What attracted much attention was that vivo also released the "TOF 3D super sensing technology" for the first time on the MWCS site. The emergence of this technology broke through the limitations of the current three-dimensional imaging technology in the mobile phone industry, brought infinite possibilities for future imaging, human-computer interaction, AR, etc., accelerated the arrival of the smart phone era, and attracted the enthusiastic attention of the on-site media and exhibitors.
Evolving from 2D to 3D, vivo accelerates the industry reform
Vivo has always followed the concept of creating extraordinary life with technology and fashion, and insisted on breaking through the smart future with technology acceleration. At last year's MWC conference, vivo officially released the screen fingerprint technology, and achieved mass production on the subsequent release of vivo X20 Plus screen fingerprint version, vivo X21 and the latest AI smart flagship vivo NEX. Today, vivo screen fingerprint technology has evolved to the third generation, and has become one of the best solutions to achieve a true full screen.
This time, MWC and vivo launched a new technology to transform the industry TOF 3D super induction technology, which opened a new outlet for the arrival of new human-computer interaction, and also became the key to breaking through the smart future.
In the 2D information age, due to the lack of depth information reading, it is difficult for smart phones to make further breakthroughs in application scenarios and security. Only by developing into the 3D field can we break the bottleneck of current imaging technology.
Vivo saw the future of 3D technology and judged that revolutionary technology upgrading was imminent and a new 3D era was coming. Relying on vivo TOF 3D super sensing technology, smart phones can obtain more detailed depth information and more powerful 3D modeling capabilities. Applications in 3D vision fields such as face recognition, gesture and limb recognition, 3D photography, AR, etc. will be realized one by one.
Breaking through the technical bottleneck of the industry, vivo accelerates the construction of a smart future
At present, the mainstream solutions in the field of 3D vision are structured light and TOF, of which structured light technology is the most commonly used solution. However, structured light technology has many challenges, such as less effective depth information, large baseline, short working distance, and great difficulty in mass production. In order to explore new human-computer interaction methods and more application scenarios of intelligent terminals, vivo chose "TOF 3D super sensing technology", which has the advantages of high effective depth information, long working distance, flexible structure layout, rich application scenarios, etc., to meet users' more expectations for stereo vision experience.
Vivo TOF 3D super sensing technology transmits near-infrared light, and the sensor calculates the time difference between the infrared light and the target, so as to achieve stereo vision. Compared with structured light technology, the effective depth information points of vivo TOF 3D super sensing are up to 300000, 10 times that of structured light technology, which is the highest number of effective depth information points in the industry at present.
In terms of working distance, vivo TOF 3D super sensing technology can increase the working distance to 3 meters, which further broadens the application scenarios, such as 3D fitting, 3D photography, MR somatosensory games and other long-distance application scenarios.
In addition, because the demand for baseline of vivo TOF 3D super sensing technology is zero, the ID design of the body has more flexible space, providing more possibilities for future mobile phone forms.
Wide application scenarios, vivo accelerates the landing of 3D applications
Hardware and technical conditions are the preconditions for realizing application scenarios. The arrival of vivo TOF 3D super induction technology also indicates that a broader application scenario is coming.
For example, online clothes cannot be tried on, resulting in an extremely high return rate. Through the vivo 3D fitting function, buyers can easily build a mannequin with their mobile phones, try them on online, quickly and conveniently find good goods and avoid the embarrassment of "buyer show".
Another example is the somatosensory game. With the addition of 3D vision, players can remotely control the characters in the game through gestures and limbs to gain a more immersive game experience and enjoy the fun of professional game console anytime, anywhere.
In addition, vivo 3D photographing function provides a more three-dimensional data model. With the help of AI, you can make fine adjustments to the face and body shape, and obtain a painting effect comparable to that of a professional artist with lighting, virtualization, coloring, etc.
In order to put vivo TOF 3D super sensing technology into application as soon as possible, vivo has officially launched the "3D Vision Developer Program", inviting industry developers, service providers and users to explore and continuously improve the performance and experience of 3D vision.
At the press conference, vivo also announced that it had taken the lead in reaching in-depth technical cooperation with WeChat. At present, TOF 3D super sensing technology has successfully supported WeChat face recognition payment and will be put into commercial use in the second half of 2018. At that time, vivo will not only be the first mobile phone manufacturer in China to support WeChat fingerprint payment and WeChat screen fingerprint payment, but also the first mobile phone manufacturer in China to support WeChat face recognition payment.
Dare to break through, vivo leads the industry into a new era
In addition to vivo TOF 3D super induction technology, the AI smart flagship vivo NEX officially released on June 12 is also a highlight of this exhibition.
In vivo's exhibition area, the large screen made up of 44 NEX mobile phones showed the shock brought by the zero boundary full screen, attracting a large number of on-site exhibitors to take a look. As the new flagship of vivo, NEX integrates many achievements of vivo in R&D and innovation, such as zero boundary full screen, elevating front camera, full screen sound technology and other black technologies, leading the industry to a new stage.
In addition, NEX is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and a new generation of AI engine AIE, which endows NEX with powerful AI computing capability. The new Jovi intelligent voice assistant developed by vivo brings a future oriented AI experience.
In addition to breaking through the shackles of design, NEX has inherited the music gene of the vivo brand, and is equipped with DTS virtual surround sound technology, bringing users a perfect listening and position discrimination experience in the game. This vivo exhibition hall has set up a DTS auditorium for this purpose, and many exhibitors have come to feast their ears.
In vivo exhibition area, vivo X21 FIFA World Cup Special Edition and V FRIENDS also appeared together, attracting a large number of fans and V fans to stop.
Continuous exploration and pursuit of perfection
From the world's first officially commercially available screen fingerprint technology at the beginning of 2018, to the highly innovative zero boundary full screen vivo NEX, to the leading industry TOF 3D super sensing technology displayed at this MWC conference. Vivo is accelerating the pace of scientific and technological innovation, driving product upgrading through technological innovation, and showing the industry its ultimate pursuit of innovation.
It can be predicted that vivo TOF 3D super induction technology combined with AI will be an upgrade from intelligent terminal to intelligent terminal for vivo and even the whole industry, and also a breakthrough in technology enabled life. In the future, vivo will continue to deeply layout AI, accelerate the landing of AR applications, meet user needs, drive the development of the entire industry, and move towards a truly smart future.
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