ⓒ GIHAWOO DESIGN 2010-2022
Porket VR
Portable VR Device / Internal Project
2022
This is a small, portable VR device that resembles a piglet (porket). You can attach your mobile phone to this product and carry it with you. This is not much different from the shape of a conventional cell phone case. It just has a lens that allows you to experience VR contents. In fact, VR devices are not products with such advanced technology. If you hold a convex lens to your eyes and look at the phone screen, you will see an expanded image in front of your eyes. Today, as display technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, we are provided with images and images with more pixels. And even if you expand it with a convex lens, the picture quality isn't that bad. This is the simple principle of VR devices.
But, why do existing VR devices have a thick volume? The biggest reason is the focal length of the convex lens. For accurate focus, a gap of at least 4-6 cm is required. I was thinking about how to adjust this distance variably. I thought: Normally, the product is folded and stored, but when using a VR device, it is opened and unfolded and the lens is pushed back at the same time. The folding structure of this product has another very big advantage. It creates a screen that blocks the light. As you know, in order to watch VR contents, it is essential to block the light and darken the area around the eyes.
This product is not suitable for watching videos with a long running time. However, after the VR environment becomes more active in the future, there will be more short VR videos. In a situation where you need to watch such videos instantaneously and conveniently, you will need this product now. At the time I was designing this product, there were no products around for reference. Through the process of prototyping the structure and functional usability of the product, data was obtained and corrected. In industrial design, innovation is the creation of new things that did not exist before.
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