The Chinese company held a press conference in which the company’s CEO, Gang Li, showed off the VR specs and laid out the issues it addresses.
“Mark Zuckerberg has said the VR devices in sunglasses style is a must and will be the future trend and it will take Facebook five to ten years to realize this dream,” Li said via a translator, during the press event. “However, today, here, we can be proud to share everybody that we have made it.”
Pronounced with the Ls silent, the first “Do” syllable stretched, and the second one short, Dlodlo seems to be trying to leapfrog over other companies’ future efforts for a more streamlined VR experience. Unlike the box-on-the-face form of other VR company’s modern headsets, the Dlodlo V1 looks like a pair of oversized sunglasses. It is made of carbon fiber, weighing only 3.1 ounces — compared to the Gear VR’s roughly 16+ oz., the Rift’s 16+ oz., and the Vive’s 19+ oz. It is also only 0.63 inches thick, about the size of a penny, as the company stressed in its presentation.
And what about the tech specs of these specs? It is similar to other units: two 1200 by 1200 screens, for a total of 2400 by 1200 pixels, running at 90 frames per second. With the size of the screens being what they are, the image has 800+ PPI.
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