Lenovo ThinkReality VRX is a standalone headset for companies with shade passthrough.

The corporate didn’t reveal many particulars or specs, however mentioned it has pancake lenses, stereo shade cameras for passthrough, and the battery within the rear. Pancake lenses help smaller panels with a shorter hole to the lenses, and thus a slimmer and lighter visor. Lenovo says the colour passthrough makes ThinkReality VRX appropriate for combined actuality functions.

The headset runs Lenovo’s VR Android fork and could have “a full suite of end-to-end companies — from consulting and content material creation by means of cloud deployment and buyer help”, together with distant schooling platform ENGAGE.

Lenovo has a comparatively lengthy historical past in VR. In 2018 it partnered with Google on the $400 Mirage Solo, the primary standalone headset with positional monitoring launched exterior China – although it was overshadowed by Fb’s $200 rotation-only Oculus Go. Within the years since Lenovo has shipped rotation-only standalone headsets of its personal for the schooling market, beneath the VR Classroom model.

Within the PC VR area Lenovo was one among Microsoft’s unique companions for the 2017 Home windows MR headsets, releasing the Lenovo Explorer based mostly on Microsoft’s reference design. And in 2019 it partnered with Fb on Oculus Rift S.

In August this 12 months, Lenovo teased a ‘Legion VR700’ headset in a poster shared on social media in China, however there’s been no indication of that consumer-focused gaming headset coming to western markets.

Lenovo didn’t reveal a value for ThinkReality VRX however mentioned it should launch in “choose markets” later this 12 months, then globally in early 2023. The headset will face steep competitors: Pico 4 Enterprise and Meta Quest Professional additionally function pancake lenses and shade passthrough, in addition to different options like face & eye monitoring.