Lenovo enters Google Daydream platform or will push VR head

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Beijing time early morning on September 1, this spring, Google released the Daydream platform at the I/O Developer Conference. The goal of the project is to establish a "Central Control Center" (VR ecological chain) for mobile VR. Device users specially customize video content, games, and other applications. Google invites YouTube and other VR content production teams. It also collaborates with partners such as Hulu, HBO, Ubisoft, MLB, and NBA to create a Daydream content platform. Among them, partners include Samsung, HTC, LG, ZTE, Huawei, Xiaomi, Alcatel and Asus.

Recently, Jeff Meredith, vice president of Lenovo Group and head of the marketing division of the mobile business group, said in an interview: “We have some Daydream products on our road map.” This will mean that Lenovo will soon join Google’s Daydream cooperation.

However, Jeff Meredith did not disclose specific details about Daydream's cooperation. At present, Google's daydream platform is based on the Android 7.0 system. Daydream-compatible smartphones and mobile VR headlines have strict standards, such as meeting the Daydream platform. Smartphones require a powerful CPU CPU and GPU graphics processor, a dedicated sensor, and a high-resolution display.

Before the industry broke the news, if you want your phone to be perfectly compatible Daydream must have Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 or more CPU, and even have OLED display. Lenovo introduced the Phab 2 Pro smart phone based on Google Tango technology. The mobile phone can superimpose digital information and images to mix the interaction between the real world and the virtual world. The Tango phone is also equipped with special sensors and cameras so that tracking and identification can be done. Measure real-world feedback in virtual things.

In response, Jeff Meredith also stated that Android is very important to Lenovo's future, and this PC maker is working closely with Google on multiple projects.

Although there is not yet a truly Google Daydream device on the market, with the continued popularity of mobile VR, mobile VR devices that use Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard as benchmarks are currently sold regardless of sales or awareness. Have a good reputation, there are a lot of mobile VR devices on the market, especially in the domestic environment of various cottages, cheap mobile VR devices, Google Daydream platform may be able to effectively prevent them to some extent.