Bone conduction earphones that expand the reality from telework to metahabath

SHOKZ Openrun Pro.The project started on January 10 with the crowdfunding site "GREEN FUNDING"

The brand name was changed from AFTERSHOKZ to SHOKZ, the bone conduction earphone flagship model was renewed, and Openrun Pro debuted.It is a successor model of Aeropex, a high -end high -end.Bone conduction earphones that do not burden the ear hole for a long time and do not prevent environmental sounds are ideal for online meetings for home work and teleworking.There is almost no burden on the ears even if you leave it all the day, and you will notice immediately if the entrance bell sounds while wearing it, or even if a landline calls, or a family calls.It can be said that Corona's evil has brought more clearly the charm of bone conduction earphones, where the necessary environmental sounds can be heard properly while concentrating on the sound they want to hear.Openrun Pro, a bone conduction earphone, which covers music, is supported quickly, and the battery driving time has grown from 8 hours to 10 hours.The weight is 29 grams, which is 3 grams heavy, but has been reduced by 20 %.Nevertheless, a 30 % size button is secured compared to the conventional, enhancing operability.However, it is the audio characteristics that are different from before.Existing products have the sound quality that takes into account the middle and high range that can be said to be rather preferable for voice calls such as meetings, but in terms of enjoying music, enjoying content such as movies.Unlike ordinary audio earphones, it was particularly lacking in low -range richness.The difference in sound from the Canal -type earphones in the same price range is clear.The Openrun Pro focuses on this part and improved the rehabilitation of the low range.Even if you actually listen to it, you can clearly see the difference.Still, the sound leakage is minimal and I don't really care.Of course, although it is not equivalent to a high -quality earphone for canal -type audio, it has a good sound quality that seems to be good to wear a reasonable sound quality for a whole day.With the earphones that block your ears, you will be able to immerse yourself in music, but you will not be able to feel like wearing them.At the same time as the brand name is renewed, it can be said that it is an attractive new product that has been renewed the image of the category of bone conduction earphones.What can be obtained by blocking the ears and what can be obtained without a blockage, in fact, bone conduction earphones are technologies that play an important role in future metaberth spaces.A complex space that combines real space and virtual space is called a mixed creativity (MR), but the bone conduction earphones fulfill the MR of the sound.You can concrete another worldview by repeating virtual sounds in the real environmental sound.Now, the active noise cancellation earphone can create sounds that combine real and virtuals by picking up environmental sounds with a microphone and overlapping with playback sounds.That's why you can hear the voice of the other person, and you can talk at the cash register at a convenience store without removing the earphones.Bone conduction earphones are the opposite of that.The real sound remains real, and the virtual sound is overlapped there.There is no need to get out of the virtual space.This technology will be noticed because the world is looking for a hybrid user experience that is not implemented, but a real and virtual multiplication.The request is to secure both what can be obtained by blocking the ears and what can be obtained without a blockage.For now, bone conduction technology is the best way for that.In terms of "listening glasses" that expands reality, Openrun Pro is a glasses to listen to.The mounting method is also an image of wearing glasses from behind the head.I want to see the glasses far away, I want to see them clearly, I want to suppress the glare, so I want to see the nearby, so I choose the frequency and color according to the purpose.Similarly, bone conduction technology can overlap the virtual sound in an optimal state without blocking a real environmental sound.In other words, what is there is an expansion of reality.The only thing I feel dissatisfied with in SHOKZ's products is that the titanium band crosses the back of the head due to its structure.The company calls it a neckband, but it is actually better to be a headband.Turn above the neck, that is, cross the back of the head.When you leave your head on a tall chair or headrest, this band feels in the way.There is a limit to adjusting the position well.If the band is placed overhead, the bone conduction will not work.Also, if you try to lie down on your back, you will get in the way.However, if this band is a cable, the touch noise will surely occur.I hope that it can be a complete wireless left and right separation, but if you put your ears down, it will get in the way, and the separation type is separate and complicated.There are not many aspects that are easier to handle in the band.The usability around that must have been grasped well.How to eliminate the discomfort is to the next generation of products.An active noise cancellation earphone that shuts out the real and invites the virtual to the virtual, and a bone conduction earphone aiming to coexist between real and virtual.Both are the sound experience that the world is looking for.In this way, the difficult task will be solved little by little.Friends in the same space are enjoying the conversation while listening to different music.That's such a world view.This Openrun Pro is approaching the world again.When I witnessed the evolution of these products, I was really happy to be able to live in this era.Author: Shohei Yamada and still contributed to each paper magazine as a freelance life as a freelance writer since the dawn of the PC.He continues to pursue new natural life, from hardware, software, Internet, cloud services to mobile, audio, and gadgets.Authors such as Impress's "I can do the Internet" and "Outlook".

Shohei Yamada