The self-contained Oculus Go headset is actually manufactured by Xiaomi, as announced at CES 2018, and a China-exclusive equivalent called Mi VR Standalone is also in the pipeline.
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It was pretty hard to take Xiaomi’s rookie virtual reality hardware effort seriously with a name like Toy Edition (or even Mi VR Play), not to mention the… unconventional zipper design and Lycra build, but the follow-up is a whole different story.Dubbed simply Xiaomi Mi VR, this graduates to an arguably handsomer, more traditional and far less experimental plastic construction, strongly resembling the super-high-end Sony PlayStation VR, which is hardly a bad thing when it costs a measly 199 Yuan ...
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It’s pretty rare to schedule product announcement events and start teasing big releases in trendy tech industry segments as VR on such short notice, but for all we know, Xiaomi could have initially planned to unveil this device that’s being hyped up right now alongside the Redmi Pro phone and Mi Notebook Air.Perhaps the company felt it was too much action for one day, or maybe its first ever virtual reality headset won’t be ready to launch commercially for a while longer. Either way, it’s ...
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