In the field of VR, the cheap VR glasses program Cardboard launched earlier in Early VRACE has spawned the domestic cheap VR box market.
According to statistics, the current VR glasses of the Cardboard series have occupied 98% of the entire domestic market. Although the VR glasses of the Cardboard series are once considered inferior VR products, their huge consumer market is still attracting many manufacturers to jump into this "pit".
Compared to VR, MR gives consumers' feels much higher. This is mainly because the world's first MR product Hololens is $ 3,000 for most consumers.
Recently, a British startup published a "cardboard" of the MR boundaries - Zapbox.
Zapbox is actually a solution for a cheap MR device proposed by ZAPPAR. With this set of scenarios, users only need to insert a mobile phone installed into the Cardboard header to create its own mixed real world with the dedicated mobile phone lens and the attached "Zapbox Code" controller.
From the introduction of the official website, the scene provided by Zapbox has a golf course, exploring Mars, dancing games, painting and playing five MR scenes.
Most importantly, its price is only one percent of Microsoft Hololens - $ 30.
This MR-Terior "Cardboard" has a price of 30 dollars, although it is not so cheap compared to Cardboard, it is quite cheaper for Hololens priced at $ 3,000.
In the future, as the VR market has gradually matured, Ar / MR will become a field that various manufacturers will follow the fields.
So the problem is coming, as a device that is also a cheap popular route, is Zapbox to reproduce the glory of Google Cardboard?
From a product, Zapbox is not intended to be paper, and the handle for interacting is also used in "Zapbox Coded Paper" DIY. That is, the focus of Zapbox is on the lens specialties with apps and mobile phones.
In the last two days, the famous foreign VR Information Platform Uploadvr released a detailed launch of this device. In the report, although ZapBox's roughness and Cardboard were not accepted, the MR experience was really realized from interaction.
However, in this way, the Tunet thinks that the experience provided by Zapbox does not count a complete MR experience. This experience is acceptable from the cost aspects. But in turn, no one will be willing to admit that the effect of the paper on her own wall is the true MR experience.
From the perspective of market supply, the current Zapbox has just logged in to Kickstarter for crowdfunding, Zappar is also just a few small teams.
Unlike Oculus or HTC Vive, the MR device as the main low-end market If the crowdfunding Zapbox will face the distress of the productivity is not enough to supply large users' demand.
Compared with the same tiger's attention to Microsoft, Google, Facebook is really stress (of course, Oculus is a special case, if Zappar can find a riser like Facebook, it is entirely two yards).
It can be seen that in all aspects, the experience of the so-called Zapbox inexpensive MR may be just a foot stone on the long road. However, it is worthy of being the design of Zapbox to present a new MR interactive experience for the manufacturer.
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