- Vivo has shown its mixed reality -headset
- Device looks like an Apple Vision Pro
- It signalizes Vivo’s big push in … Robotics?
Meta Quest 3 is the best VR Headset for most people thanks to its impressive performance and reasonably affordable price. After awarding 2024’s Upstart, Apple Vision Pro – which couldn’t explain why anyone should spend a ridiculously high sum on it – Metas Quest in 2025 is set to meet Samsung and Google’s project Moohan Android XR Headsets, but there may be a bigger threat
That’s because Vivio – a Chinese electronics company – has just debuted its Vivo Vision, Mr Headset, which could be the real headset to see this year.
The prototype Vivo, on screen, looks almost identical with an Apple Vision Pro – all the way down to the battery pack you put in your pocket to keep the device driven and laptop. Heck, you could have both Apple and Vivo heads next to each other and most people would not be able to separate them from each other.
Under the hood, I expect there are plenty of differences – but right now it is unknown what drives the Vivo headset.
In addition to a guard debut in the middle of 2025 for the prototype, Vivo has been close to the device’s specifications, weight, battery life and price. Although its technique generally lands somewhere in the middle class to affordable flagship area when it comes to phones (usually undercut similar specified rivals such as the iPhone 16 Pro with its Vivo X200 Pro).
If this headset can find a way to deliver premium performance at a more affordable price than other advanced models, it could earn some fierce competition for Meta in the regions, where both Vision MRI and Quest 3 headsets are available.
When we talk about, Meta’s great advantage in this match will be the Vivo device probably exclusively launched in China and some Asian countries instead of getting a full global release. But even though it is limited to a continent and never comes to the United States, Vivos headsets can be a fascinating launch to look at.
Getting ready for a revolution
What is interesting about Vivo is that XR Tech seems like a reflection rather than its primary goal.
Vivo explains that the headset is part of its strategy to “strengthen its real-time spatial computer capabilities” but not to develop slim AR-glasses-which appears to be Meta and Samsung’s goal with their respective Meta Orion specifications and leaked smart glasses plans-but for “future applications in consumer robotics.”
At the same time, Vivo has announced that it is creating a new robotic laboratory in China.
AI robots-from autonomous vehicles to humanoid assistants-healing a lot of steam in the tech room right now with high profiled companies NVIDIA and Tesla, making their high robot-based targets known in recent months.
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Mixed the headset of reality has to perform a lot of spatial treatment to create realistic experiences that mix your real and virtual worlds, so the technology would apparently be useful in robotics-ice to home to the home that need to know how to navigate around and recognize different furniture (something headset can already do).
Meta also has robotic plans based on its researchers and leaked memos, but it has not yet published its bold plans in public if it has any. But if it doesn’t respond soon, it could find its XR lead slip away in what appears to be the next limit of the sector.
We will have to wait and see what has been announced in the coming months, but of all the XR headset launched this year, I think the vision MRI has a shot on being by far the most interesting.
