Play For Dream is a Chinese language headset firm that was previously referred to as YVR.
Its newest headset, Play For Dream MR, was introduced again in June as coming to China and another Asian international locations, and final month it launched a Kickstarter to convey it to the west too.
Play For Dream MR makes use of the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen chipset and can retail beginning at $2000. Its design seems to be a crossover between Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and Meta Quest Professional.
The XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, Qualcomm’s strongest XR chip but, is paired with 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and both 512GB or 1TB of UFS 3.1 storage, relying on the mannequin you purchase.
The headset options twin 3840×3552 micro-OLED shows from BOE, larger decision than Imaginative and prescient Professional‘s Sony panels, with a refresh fee of 90Hz and 92% DCI-P3 shade gamut, the identical as Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Its pancake lenses provide a claimed subject of view of 103°, and the headset has eye monitoring for automated IPD adjustment and foveated rendering.
Along with eye monitoring, the headset options high-resolution shade passthrough, a depth sensor, hand monitoring, and Contact Plus-like ringless tracked controllers.
The headset’s complete weight is strictly the identical as Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, 650 grams, however the distribution of this weight is vastly totally different. A curved battery is constructed into the again of the strap, just like the strategy Meta Quest Professional took.
The battery on the rear of the strap can energy the headset for simply over 1 hour, and an included tethered exterior battery provides 2.5 hours for a complete of three.5 hours utilization.
Play For Dream claims the primary international items will begin transport in December, and that every one headsets ought to be shipped throughout the first weeks of 2025.