![]() ![]() 2018 phones have the newer Snapdragon 845. The Lenovo Mirage Solo has a Snapdragon 835 processor, one of the most powerful phone processors of 2017. WorldSense is fairly new, and the apps and developers of this ecosystem are those of the mobile rather than console space, and since the Lenovo Mirage Solo uses mobile phone-style hardware, the experience with the HTC Vive is markedly better. Nevertheless, you still get a higher-grade of experience with an HTC Vive. However, many of the apps and games on offer are fun and interesting, a good fit for the shorter kind of play sessions most people want from VR. The titles are more mobile games you might otherwise play on your phone. WorldSense and Daydream don’t yet feature any games that would make me want to go out and buy a Lenovo Mirage Solo instantly, however. However, there’s still a thrill to maxing-out the view window then sitting down in front of it like a kid who’s booked out their own cinema. Resolution is far from perfect – it looks around 480p quality. These put a big cinema-style screen in front of your face. You can also watch Netflix, YouTube and Google Play Movie content through the headset. It’s probably worth visiting the WorldSense library to see if anything appeals, before buying a Lenovo Mirage Solo. Other high-profile titles to check out include Ultrawings (£8.99), Toy Clash (£4.79) and Lola and the Giant (£8.49). In titles that don’t support extra movement tracking, vertical movement won’t actually be tracked. The most famous Daydream VR games are probably the racer, Need for Speed: No Limits, and Hungry Shark VR, which sees you play as a shark, swimming through the sea, eating stuff. ![]() This is the interface you see when using the Mirage Solo Extreme Downhill, for example, is a cartoony snowboarding game, where the extra movement tracking is used to let you duck down under barriers as you slalom down a mountainside, collecting coins. Right now, there are around 60 WorldSense apps and games, some of which were existing Daydream titles now upgraded with extra freedom of movement. Google Daydream VR has been around for a while, but the Lenovo Mirage Solo is a launch device for WorldSense, which makes use of the headset’s additional positional sensing. Some “porthole” effect is visible, where the extreme edges of your vision are blocked off, but I find the image wide enough to let you get lost in a VR experience.Īfter a few hours I started to notice the black level isn’t close to that of an OLED headset, but this only serves as a reminder that VR headsets such as this are still quite young. Here you get 110 degrees, matching the HTC Vive, and up from 90 degrees in the Oculus Go and 101 degrees in the latest Samsung Gear VR. This determines how much of your vision is taken up by the VR image. Who moves their head to look at action going on at the edge of the frame in the cinema?įield of view is good, however. This isn’t such a big deal in games where you move your head instead of your eyes, but it isn’t great for movies. You can see the fresnel lens pattern here ![]() High-contrast white text on a black background starts to blur at just 15-20 degrees off-centre. Only a relatively small area at the centre is perfectly sharp. The Lenovo Mirage Solo’s lenses smear the image at the edges, causing chromatic aberration and purple fringing. There is a visual effect mentioned earlier that can appear like motion blur, however. This is excellent news, since it’s blur that can cause motion sickness. Some people are more sensitive to motion blur than others, but I haven’t noticed it here. The best early VR headsets all used OLED panels because they have much faster-reacting pixels, but the Lenovo Mirage Solo has a fast-ish 75Hz refresh rate panel. I’m also impressed by the lack of motion blur. Screen-door effect, where you can see the black space between pixels, is minimal too. As long as you’re not too picky about visual clarity, that is. However, sharpness is good enough to make game worlds immersive and films enjoyable. You can always see the pixels, and it’s the same with the Mirage Solo. I have issues with the resolution of all VR headsets. This is actually a higher resolution than either the original HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. It uses a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440-pixel LCD panel. The Lenovo Mirage Solo performs well in most of these categories. Resolution, any associated screen-door effect, motion blur, field of view and lens quality all matter. ![]() There are several aspects to the image quality of VR headsets. Lenovo Mirage Solo – VR and image quality
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