TechCrunch, spent a while with the $1,119 Vive XR Elite moveable headset that had Meta’s Quest Professional firmly in its sights. The brand new Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient, which was introduced on Wednesday, is a good bit bigger and $1,000 cheaper than that system.
The brand new headset seems to swim in comparable waters as Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional, Microsoft’s HoloLens, and the Magic Leap 2. It’s a combined actuality headset, that means it gives VR and passthrough-style AR experiences. It’s additionally combined use, aiming at each avid gamers and enterprise companies.
Very similar to Magic Leap, HTC understands that enterprise is the place the cash is — particularly now that Meta’s loss-leading Quest headsets have come to dominate the informal market. That mentioned, together with its enterprise bona fides, the Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient has sufficient firepower below the hood to attraction to PC avid gamers tethered through the DisplayPort.
“Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient offers you one of the best of each worlds, with excellent standalone capabilities, and DisplayPort mode help for visually lossless PCVR experiences,” says International Head of Product Shen Ye. “Now, PC avid gamers can convey the identical high-end headsets utilized in VR arcades into their properties. We’re taking all the things to the following stage with built-in eye-tracking, stereo coloration passthrough cameras for depth-correct combined actuality, and even an infra-red sensor for enhanced hand monitoring in low-light situations.”
The headset takes a kitchen sink strategy to the class. Together with DisplayPort help, it options built-in eye monitoring, twin 16-megapixel digital camera for full coloration passthrough, depth sensing, and a mixed 5K decision. The show has a 120-degree area of view and may help as much as a 120Hz refresh price.
The cooling system has been upgraded — a should for the aforementioned lossless PCVR periods. There’s additionally an onboard backup battery that retains it alive when swapping out the primary battery.
Preorders open Wednesday. The system ought to begin delivery in mid-October.
