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I'm definitely a fan of good VR experiences and I'm sure there are quite a few of you out there that feel the same but the investment required to getting good VR experience can be pretty big it's definitely a barrier of entry for a lot of people who'd like to get into the arc so when Lenovo reached out about doing a sponsored showcase of their Mirage solo daydream VR headset and their Mirage camera I was intrigued it's got two cameras on the front here and this is something that we've seen before in Windows mixed reality headsets but it's also completely self-contained with no wires or separate PC required so let's take a look it's not actually on yet we're just gonna roll the animated intro for now let's put the camera aside for now and start off with the Mirage so the headset this is the world's first stand-alone daydream head-mounted display in the past all daydream headsets were essentially a shell with lenses that you could slide your daydream compatible phone into side note here Google only actually lists 10 phones as daydream compatible on their website three of which are pixel devices so if you want to go that route make sure you double check that list with the Mirage headset none of that matters it has its own built-in computer phone thing to do all of the rendering so stand alone means there's no trip hazard wires all over the place and no external sensors that you have to drill into your wall or mount to your desk or whatever and as a side bonus you won't drain the battery of your actual phone like you would with a Google cardboard you know in case your mom calls or whatever the exterior is made of like a soft touch off-white plastic with padding here here and here and then it's got this dual action adjustability with the button on the bottom and the knob at the back to accommodate really pretty much for its the highs of noggin look at i/o in specs are about what you'd expect for a modern computer phone a modern thing with a USB type-c port on the side for charging 64 gigs of internal storage and microSD expansion of up to 256 gigs the other side then features a power button we have status LED and volume controls and a headphone jack it also comes with a little daydream remote up there it is that while fairly simple in design works pretty well for the types of games that you'll be playing on a device like this which I guess means it's time to get started I'm gonna fire up some Blade Runner here so most of that seems pretty normal so far for a VR headset so while Jake's getting Bladerunner fired up I want to talk you guys through what's really different here the front is where things get really interesting sorry here you go so the mirages duel 13 megapixel front-facing cameras power some new tech from Google called world sense so in combination with the usual internal inertial sensors like a gyroscope and a magnetometer magnetic meter magnetometer magnetized is that right and a magnetometer these cameras allow for six degrees of freedom of movement that means the headset not only tracks your head but also walking dodging leaning whatever you can pretty much move however you want and information collected from the cameras should allow the headset to keep track of where you are because even the best gyroscope is going to be subject to some degree of drift now if you do obstruct the view of the cameras or the room is too dark world sense will automatically fall back to tracking just your head then once the cameras vision improves it resumes full spatial tracking and can even remember where you were it's pretty darn cool you have a setup yet I know how to do that and the world's biggest professional about time we have accomplished more than any other Media Group hey I'm happy for you alright you can try the Eclipse game well writers I don't you try stand-up I feel like this is definitely a better game to be standing up I sure okay you want to reset your view I mean it's definitely still powered by phone graphics like I don't want to set unrealistic expectations for people and the tracking the tracking is what impresses me compared to other phone based VR solutions that I've tried before so this one's pretty cool and a couple of the other games that kind of stood out over the last week or so are fire escape and then Blade Runner revelations depending on whether you're more into puzzle solving action or orb story now with that said if educational content is more your gem the BBC actually created an incredible underwater exploration of the California coast and Google has a tech demo that they're calling audio factory now it's mostly just a showcase for simulated spatial sound but it's also a good bit of fun especially since it's free also for the non-gamers YouTube VR can be a great reason to try out VR I mean everyone knows I think already that you can watch regular videos I think sdt like they're on a big screen but there's also thousands of existing VR 180 and VR 360 videos on the platform and next VR even lets you watch NBA League Pass games courtside in VR and we're adding one more thing that you might want to watch where is it ah thank you this is the Mirage camera so it's a lightweight point-and-shoot style VR 180 camera featuring dual 13 megapixel wide-angle camera is capable of shooting 30 FPS 4k vr1 80 video so it supports either saving content directly to your phone as a 2d video uploading it straight to YouTube or even live-streaming at up to 4k VR 180 also to YouTube without any configuration required whatsoever so we are gonna be using this to do a VR tour of our office that you'll be able to watch over on the Lenovo YouTube channel now the idea behind recording 180 degrees rather than 360 is that it doesn't require image stitching which improves the image quality and it can help with both ensuring that people don't interfere with what you're trying to film and maintaining the focus of your viewers the are 180 can also be used to provide a super cool stereo 3d experience when you watch the footage back on a VR headset it's actually really trippy go check out the VR 180 studio tour that we made in partnership with Lenovo we're gonna have that linked in the video description and it is best viewed with the head mounted display like the Mirage headset or a Google cardboard so if you have one try it out and then after that if you're interested in picking up a mirage solo headset or the Mirage camera check out the links in the description and then we also have links down there to a couple of other creators who also made videos on the two devices we featured today so thanks again to Lenovo for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description okay I kind of already said that but it's part of the standard outro what am I going to do at this point all 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