- Vivo showed his mixed reality headset
- The device looks like an Apple Vision Pro
- Does this signal Vivo’s great push in … robotics?
The Meta Quest 3 is the best VR headset for most people thanks to its impressive performance and a reasonably affordable price. After having rejected the upstart from 2024, the Apple Vision Pro – which failed to explain correctly why anyone should devote a ridiculously high sum – in 2025, the quest for Meta is ready to face the project of Samsung and Google Moohan Android XR Headset, but there could be a greater threat
Indeed, Vivio – A Chinese electronics company – has just made its debut on its Vivo Vision MR helmet which could be the real helmet to watch this year.
The Vivo prototype put in exposure seems almost identical to an Apple Vision Pro – to the battery you put in your pocket to keep the device powered and portable. Heck, you might have the Apple and Vivo headsets side by side and most people could not distinguish them.
Under the hood, I expect there to be a lot of differences – but at the moment, we do not know what feeds the Vivo helmet.
Beyond a wave early in mid-2025 for the prototype, Vivo remained tight on the specifications, the weight, the lifespan and the price of the device. Although its technology generally landed somewhere in the mid-range to an affordable flagship range with regard to phones (generally underestimates specific competitors such as the iPhone 16 Pro with its Vivo X200 Pro).
If this helmet can find a way to provide premium performance at a more affordable price than other high -end models, this could serve difficult to meta competition in regions where vision MR and Quest 3 headsets are available.
Meta’s great advantage in this fight will be the Vivo system should be launched exclusively in China and in certain Asian countries rather than obtaining a full world version. But even if it is confined to a continent and never goes to the United States, the Vivo helmet could be a fascinating launch to watch.
Prepare for a revolution
What is interesting about Vivo is that XR Tech seems to be a reflection afterwards rather than its main objective.
Vivo explains that the helmet is part of its strategy to “strengthen its spatial IT capacities in real time”, but not for developing elegant Arcs – which seems to be the objective of Meta and Samsung with their respective meta -order specifications and their intelligent glasses plans disclosed – but for “future applications in consumption robotics”.
At the same time, Vivo announced that he is establishing a new robotics laboratory in China.
AI robots – Autonomous vehicles to humanoid assistants – currently collect a lot of steam in technological space with high -level companies Nvidia and Tesla aware of their robots in recent months.
To watch
Mixed reality headsets must do a lot of spatial treatment to create realistic experiences that mix your real and virtual worlds, so that technology would also be useful in robotics – especially for home auxiliary robots which must know how to do and recognize different furniture (which helmets can already do).
Meta also has robotics plans on the basis of her researchers’ work and has disclosed memos, but he has not yet rendered his plans daring if they have them. But if that does not react soon, he could find his lead XR slip into what seems to be the next border in the sector.
We will have to wait and see what is announced in the coming months, but of all the XR headsets launched this year, I think that the vision MR has a chance to be by far the most interesting.
