Alcatel Expands Mobile Virtual Reality Ecosystem with Standalone Headset
Alcatel this week announced the launch of a new products called Vision, making it the first global smartphone brand to offer its users an all-in-one virtual reality experience.
Vision is the world’s first all-in-one mobile home entertainment virtual reality device to be offered with entry-level pricing. It can be worn comfortably for up to three hours, with or without glasses, allowing plenty of time to take a VR tour of a museum or for watching a movie.
Alcatel partnered with Jaunt VR, Magic Interactive Entertainment, and Fraunhofer, which will provide preloaded content. Jaunt VR brings cinematic VR that gives users an exclusive, immersive 360-degree stereo video experience. For those who enjoy VR games, Vision includes Magic Interactive Entertainment’s BattleBlock, a frisbee combat game designed for VR that supports a person-to-person mode. Fraunhofer offers an immersive audio solution to support VR, one that adapts real-time sound to correspondent perfectly with what’s being seen while looking around.
With its smartphone IDOL 4S, introduced earlier this year, Alcatel was the first mobile phone brand to put VR in-the-box and ship a smartphone with VR goggles. The new VR products and partnerships demonstrate Alcatel’s commitment to mobile VR and the 360-degree camera industry.
Unlike other headsets, Vision is not tethered to a smartphone or computer, so users can move naturally while exploring VR environments. Vision offers 120-degree field of vision, the widest in its class. It also integrates the lowest latency available at 17 milliseconds.
