Use the Force with Lenovo Mirage AR solution

porina · September 4, 2017

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Lenovo is creating the hardware: a light beacon, a tracking sensor, a lightsaber controller, and the augmented reality headset designed for smartphones. The approach for Lenovo’s AR is different to how Samsung and others are approaching smartphone VR, or how Microsoft is implementing Hololens: by implementing a pre-approved smartphone into the headset, the hardware uses a four-inch diagonal portion of the screen to project an image that rebounds onto prisms and into the user’s eyes. The effect is that the user can still see ahead of them, but also images and details on the screens – limited mostly by the pixel density of the smartphone display.

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11814/playing-as-a-jedi-lenovo-and-disneys-star-wars-augmented-reality-experience

Is VR too 2016 for you? Done Trials on Tatooine and want more? Here's an enhanced mobile solution entering the playing field with an AR headset, using a currently very short list of compatible mobile phones. Priced at US$199.99 or 299.99 EUR (plus compatible mobile) it might be cheap enough for the masses, but we're still going to have to wait and see what other content will be available. I doubt many will spend that much just for this...

Here you can see Anandtech's Ian Cutress making a fool of himself trying it out. I'll see if I can find some example footage of what you might see in the headset...

A longer hand's on review (thanks @RadiatingLight for tip). With 3 included games it could be enough to tempt a Star Wars fan. Beats a Jedi mind trick anyway...