The title means that Vivo is not going to make a drone, but Vivo’s new technology is eyeing another key business line of DJI.

Although DJI is known to start with drones, DJI ’s consumer-grade imaging equipment is actually more attractive to ordinary consumers because of increasingly strict flight policy restrictions.

Osmo Mobile’s mobile stabilization gimbal initially solved the problem of unstable video recording on mobile phones, but on the one hand, the mobile phone plus stabilizer is still too large, and the electronic image stabilization of mobile phones is getting better and better. In the third generation, although the product was cheaper, it was not so important for many ordinary users.

After Osmo Mobile, DJI also released the Osmo Pocket, and the label of the Vlog artifact was sold. It sold quite well in the air, but most users around me did indeed get ash for this device because Osmo Pocket, as a portable video device, is definitely quite innovative. The gimbal and camera are directly integrated into a particularly small volume, but the short board is also quite obvious, which is not as good as the quality of mobile phones.

In order to benchmark GoPro, Osmo Action was also done later, this device will not say much, it is really quite good, by the way, GoPro is panic-stricken enough.

But in reality, portable video devicesNo matter how good it is, the most people use mobile phones to shoot some videos. It is not accurate to say that vivo started to grab the DJI rice bowl, but it should be said that before DJI grabbed the mobile phone in the video field, it could not eat rice Now, vivo has to grab it back with a technology called micro-cloud platform.

Simply speaking, the technology of micro-cloud platform is to make a micro-cloud platform in the mobile phone that is more complicated than the original optical image stabilization, to improve its physical image stabilization ability, so that whether it is taking pictures or videos can be more stable.

If you have used DJI ’s own mobile phone gimbal, you know how complicated it is to shrink such a structure into a mobile phone. Because the entire sensor and lens structure must be moved to achieve a stable function, the miniature gimbal has to limit the mechanism, double ball suspension, lens, voice coil motor, double S-type FPC cable, T-FPC, magnetic power frame and protection Cover these institutions are put in, so the overall area will reach 5 times that of the main camera, 3.2 times the periscope camera.

It ’s more troublesome than stuffing the entire complex structure into the phone, because this is a mobile mechanism in the body of the phone, so the accuracy of the parts is particularly high.

Of course, the effect achieved is still expected to be good. According to the official official given by vivo, the anti-shake angle reached more than 3 ° after using the micro gimbal, which is 300% of traditional OIS optical anti-shake.

For ordinary consumers, the benefits that Weiyuntai can achieve are actually two:

First, the video shooting is more stable. Although most mobile phones now have electronic anti-shake, that is, anti-shake through algorithms, but electronic anti-shake will cut off a lot of pictures. Physical anti-shake works with electronic anti-shake. it’s the best.

Secondly, for night scene shooting, a more stable camera can achieve longer exposure, and can also avoid the serious unrealistic painting caused by the multi-frame synthesis used by the previous mobile phone to provide better night scene capability.

Normal Optical Image Stabilization Night View

Weiyuntai Night View

However, the solution of the micro-cloud platform is not omnipotent. It does not mean that you can take a mobile phone to shoot vigorous exercise like GoPro. Although the size of the mobile phone is not suitable for vigorous exercise, it is also not certain With the addition of the micro-cloud platform, when the phone is normally used, will there be the phenomenon of “playing the clapper board” like some ordinary optical anti-shake mobile phones with lenses.

I also asked Vivo about the abnormal sound of “beating the Allegro”. The answer I got was definitely not. I will verify it later.

The more important question is whether such a mobile phone image innovation, which is quite complicated in technology and structure, will become that kind, ordinary usersDon’t care, professional users feel that the tasteless function is not enough.

As for whether the anti-shake effect of this micro-cloud platform is good or not, we will wait a few days for our actual measurement. In a sense, the mass production of mobile phone micro-yuntai technology also means that the market for mobile phone stabilizers is gradually shrinking. When the mobile phone’s ability to shoot videos is getting better and better, in addition to traditional mobile phone stabilizers, some special scenes can be shot To assist, DJI should also think about how to defend its own market.