99 yuan to realize the virtual reality "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses experience

Wearable devices are a very trendy thing at present. If you add the words "virtual reality" in front of them, it will seem even more advanced.

Can you buy a wearable virtual reality device for 99 yuan? It sounds incredible, but recently, Nanjing Ruiyue officially launched the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses, which are priced at 99 yuan.

What did you buy for 99 yuan?

Although you may not even be able to buy a smartphone now for less than 100 yuan, the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses are definitely not as simple as Google Cardboard made from a copied paper box. Of course, it is also not a virtual reality helmet product equipped with a screen like Oculus Rift. To be precise, the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses are an enhanced product that uses a mobile phone screen to achieve a virtual reality experience.

Considering the product positioning, the overall plastic material texture of the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses is average. As for the product's shape, if you have seen the Gear VR launched by Samsung or the Project Morpheus virtual reality helmet tailored for PS4 by Sony, then these products look similar in appearance.

The openable front cover of the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses is used to place the smartphone that is used as a screen by the device. It is fixed with magnetic tiles. Under normal movement ranges, it is fixed relatively firmly. After the phone is put in, there are two lenses between the phone screen and the human eyes to achieve 3D virtual reality effects, which are also the core part of the product.

According to the product description, the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses recommend that users use mobile phones with 4.7-6 inch screens, and the recommended mobile phone resolution is above 1280×720. It happens that we have Huawei's 6-inch screen mobile phone Mate7 on hand. Can the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses be perfectly compatible with Mate7?

After testing, it is found that there is no problem putting Huawei Mate7 into the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses. However, even if the phone adopts a narrow frame design, Mate7 still occupies the internal space of the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses. Therefore, mobile phones with a screen of more than 6 inches such as Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 are definitely "oversized" in size.

However, it should be noted that after Huawei Mate7 is placed, although the internal protection measures for the phone are relatively comprehensive, the frame of the phone is almost attached to the inner frame of the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses, which makes the power button on the side of the phone often accidentally touched, causing the screen to turn off or even forced shutdown. This also shows that when facing the side buttons of giant-screen mobile phones, there are still some areas in the product design that need to be improved.

Let’s talk about the wearing method. In fact, three wide elastic bandages are used to fix the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses on the user's head. The subjective feeling can be summed up in three words: "not uncomfortable".

Is the “Dream Mirror” experience magical enough?

Unlike reviews of smartphones or other common digital products that can be presented in intuitive graphic form, it may be difficult to understand the real feeling of using the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses without experiencing it yourself.

Simply put, the two lenses in front of the user's eyes change the way the mobile phone screen is displayed. The "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses use sensors such as the gravity sensor inside the mobile phone to create a virtual reality scene with real-time 3D images in front of the user's eyes.

Since the product adopts the left-right 3D presentation format, there is no special hardware requirement for the mobile phone screen, and it can also support general left-right 3D videos very well. However, on the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses, the mobile phone screen will be magnified to a certain extent, so if you don’t want to see densely packed pixels on the mobile phone screen, it is best to use a smartphone with a screen fineness of more than 300PPI.

Immersive gaming is a major focus of virtual reality devices. The Nibiru gaming platform, which is exclusive to the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses, also provides left and right 3D display gaming projects in conjunction with the glasses.

But at this stage, most of the games on the Nibiru platform for the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses are still demo versions for trial use. They use virtual reality to remake the main scenes of large-scale games or only focus on creating game characters, which are not very playable for users.

An external handle is required to control the game, but unlike the previous Nibiru game platform which adopted a closed mode in handle adaptation, in addition to Nibiru's own external handles, brands such as Betu, Paige and standard HID are all perfectly compatible with the product.

Of course, in addition to videos and games, we also saw the prototypes of some good ideas on the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses, such as riding a virtual roller coaster or touring houses in a virtual reality environment. Just imagine that in the near future your "travel" at home will no longer be limited to flat screens, and you will no longer have to travel to model buildings to visit new properties you want to buy. In this way, virtual reality devices still have a lot of potential practical significance.

There are some things I have to say...

The development of wearable virtual reality devices is far from mature. The "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses are also Nibiru's first generation product in this field, which also reflects some problems that exist in the early stages of the development of such products.

The most obvious feeling is that head-mounted virtual reality devices that use mobile phones as screens are not suitable for long-term use. After wearing them for a period of time, the discomfort caused by watching 3D movies will be further aggravated due to the extremely close distance to the glasses. Due to the different materials and adjustment characteristics of mobile phone screens, the final effects of virtual reality glasses are also different, which makes it difficult for different users to have the same experience quality.

But the 99-yuan pricing of the "Nibiru Dream Mirror" VR glasses is still a very good thing. It at least lowers the threshold for ordinary users to access virtual reality products, making this seemingly sci-fi thing no longer out of reach. After this good start, perhaps more affordable virtual reality products will appear in the future to make the entire industry "hot".

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.