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wearing a VR headset without a phone and no wires necessary that's a thing that's happening in 2018 the Lenovo Mirage solo daydream VR headset is coming later this year at a price somewhere around $400 or less and it has a snapdragon 835 processor inside you don't have to put a phone in and in that partnership with Google it allows not just daydream VR which is available on a number of other Android phones but you can also do a little bit of movement to thanks to to stereoscopic cameras in the front that allow agree of freedom tracking that's kind of like where you get in your top-end VR headsets that are connected to pcs the motion range is a little more limited though you can duck and move we were not really meant to walk around the controller is the same one that comes with other daydream headsets currently we tried a few experiences including a Blade Runner experience that allowed me to click around walk up to virtual noodle stands and duck in and look at details I wasn't able to walk but I was able to click duck and lean and that's kind of the way you're going to move with this headset that's different than oculus go a 200-dollar headset coming this year that also won't have a phone but will not have that leaning motion element added now it's unclear how many apps daydream has that are going to work with that extra movement and leaning function and that's the thing to keep an eye on here but as a standalone headset that doesn't need a phone that definitely seems where mobile VR is heading for those people that may not want to pay up for a phone that can do it Lenovo is also making a separate story Scapa camera the Lenovo Mirage camera in partnership with Google that is meant to shoot 180 degree 4k 30 frames per second video that's also 3d and that stuff can not only playback on a daydream VR headset or upload to YouTube you could also just send it to a phone and use it to record moments it's not 360 and it doesn't have a viewfinder but the camera is meant to be very easily used and record anything that you're pointing at because that field of view will cover anything that's in front of the camera that's gonna cost around $300 that's where VR is headed with Lenovo and with Google and we're at CES in Las Vegas trying