Last week, OnePlus launched OnePlus Featuring, a brand-new platform which has been launched gradually across the global market to aid its co-creation journey. Under the new platform, its first product is going to be a customisable mechanical keyboard with collaboration with Keychron. At that time, there were very few details about it, but OnePlus is ready to share more now.
First of all, OnePlus held its first OnePlus AR Wearables Design Contest, which garnered the interest of 50,000 users within two weeks. After pre-selection and nomination from professional designers and product managers, followed by voting from community users, OnePlus community user @Concept Central won the first prize and got the chance to co-create a non-functioning prototype together with Industrial Designers and AR experts from OPPO Research Institute.
Considering that OPPO has just announced their AR glasses during the OPPO Inno Day 2022, we think OnePlus is also coming up with one of their own in the future.
Now, about the mechanical keyboard. OnePlus said Keychron is involved in the co-creation process through technical support and collaboration. This keyboard will come with a double gasket mount design and a CNC aluminium body that provides weight and durability for long-term usage and stabilization.
OnePlus added that this keyboard is compatible with macOS and Windows as well. Apart from this, it also works with Linux, ideally handling all operating systems.
Additionally, it supports all the customisable keyboard’s advanced features like hot swappable and open-source firmware (VIA/QMK). Hot-swappable allows for easy change of switches by users themselves, increasing the keyboard’s playability. While the open-source firmware allow users to configure the keyboard’s macros, lighting, custom keycodes and etc.
OnePlus said they are going to release this mechanical keyboard in the Asia Pacific region in the early 2023. So, there’s a chance it could be coming here as well.
