I remember that before the rise of VR, everyone said that the mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Huawei, and Hammer entered the market and may quickly promote the popularization of VR. Not long ago, Xiaomi released his own millet VR toy glasses, zipper + "Leica cotton" material, it is said that "1 yuan beta" booking users easily break millions, there are hardware must have software, millet VR applications (toy version) also Formally on the line, we tried it out, found that as the main 360 video playback flawed, and some games actually induced users to install rogue software!
Design + Mode Normal / VR Watch Two Steps
Millet VR application design is good, simple and clear, there are big factory style. Millet VR has two modes to use, one is an ordinary mobile phone 2D mode, can be more clear choice of video or application download; VR mode is mainly to watch VR and ordinary 2D video content. Before we tried some VR applications, we found that some only gave the VR mode, but due to design problems, there is no ordinary operation mode which is quite inconvenient in practicality, so it is still the main mode of dual-mode operation.
In terms of interaction, Xiaomi chose the Google Cardboard II model, which is to set a button in the upper right corner of the glasses box. Click to connect and switch to touch the center of the screen of the mobile phone, which is the center of the user's line of sight for selection and playback. Compared to last year's popular cheap Bluetooth handle, this interaction is simpler and more convenient, and the cost is lower. what!
Content is still rich: 360 ° video + VR games + local video
The content of Xiaomi VR application can be divided into 3 categories: 360° video of partners, VR games of local partners, and local videos.
360 ° video: Barley VR, Lanting digital, Wyatt Tour VR and other cooperative vendors to provide millet VR applications dozens of 360 ° video, from concerts to travel to the suspense drama, and so forth.
VR application: Although it is a VR application, most of them are VR games, including Xishanju's "Knight-errant VR", Super-dimensional "secondary beauty fighting" VR appreciation, and VR horror games through the brain.
Local Video: Xiaomi VR application can play the scanned mobile phone storage, play ordinary video and VR video content in the local folder.
360 video player has flawed player function to be strengthened
360° video playback in Xiaomi VR supports both online direct viewing and download viewing. The 360° video of the application is relatively large. We have seen about 1.86GB of video in about 4 minutes. And, Xiaomi VR will not consider the user's bandwidth during playback and play it directly at the highest resolution. We are using 50MB of China Unicom broadband, and online direct viewing will still often be stuck. On the contrary, when downloading video, the peak speed reaches 12MB, and almost 2GB files can be downloaded in about 4 minutes.
Millet VR 360° video player options, you can adjust the screen brightness (doesn't work), regain the viewing direction, select the play mode (virtual theater 2D + 3D; normal panorama, 3D panorama left and right format, 3D panorama up and down format) . After experimenting with several 360° video content, we found a problem: all the 360° videos can see a very obvious gap between the dog and dog, this situation has not appeared in the general VR applications and players, so We suspect that the player in the application may be developed by Xiaomi itself.
In addition, we tried to use the millet VR to play the local 3D 360° video. Although the application can choose the left and right and up and down 3D video formats, but basically can not play normally. In fact, most VR players currently have problems when playing 3D 360° video. Common disadvantages in the industry are similar to Xiaomi VR.
VR applications and games: Handicap software for the whole family
In addition to 360° video, VR applications and VR mini games are also a major source of content for Xiaomi VR. Currently, there are about 10 products in the application, including Xishanju's “Kingsman World VRâ€, Australian experience (also 360° video), and two educational applications created by the China Digital Science and Technology Museum.
We downloaded all the applications and games and tried it. Each application is only 100MB, and it's faster. After the experience, we found that whether it is tourism or educational applications, or the VR games of Dachang Xiaochang, the picture has been simple enough, and the number of game frames and delay performance are unsatisfactory. The "Knight-player World VR" has a scene in which the male and female protagonists fly in the air. Because the number of frames is not enough and the angle is problematic, it is very easy for people to feel dizzy.
Finally, there is one thing. Xiaomi VR has a game called the luxury car experience. The maker of the logo is App Teeka. After downloading and installing the 50-plus megabyte mini-games, they actually pulled out 3 or 4 advertisements. Without asking, they downloaded 360 safe guards, Jingdong shopping, PP assistants and other APKs. Immediately enter the installation page, and then click on the "install" button.
Playing VR for so long, used so many VR applications, we really saw such a shameless application for the first time. In addition to wanting to play against the App Teeka, we actually wanted to ask the staff of Xiaomi, you have a game. Don't try it yourself? A free game through the millet VR platform, to the user loaded with 360, PP Assistant or Jingdong shopping, knowing that millet is not strict, do not know the estimate has to doubt how much the company has to pay on the Xiaomi VR platform, The ultimate goal is to cheat everyone!
postscript
As a millet's attempt in VR, Xiaomi VR application should not be light - it will eventually become the VR version of the millet store. From the current application perspective, Xiaomi VR is still the main VR content, and does not like many video platforms, as many hard-core traditional video content into VR applications. However, in such important links as 360° video playback, there are still some flaws in the Xiaomi VR player, and further improvement is needed.
In VR applications and VR games included, millet VR also pay more attention, after all, download a game is loaded with a bunch of rogue software, users will not blame the software side, but will spread the anger on the platform body - you have filtered Obligations!