HTC simply introduced Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient, a refresh of Vive Focus 3.
Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient inherits the rear battery design, 2.5K LCD shows, fresnel lenses, and unique Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset from Vive Focus 3. However HTC has upgraded the sensor suite and RAM, and added a number of new options together with eye monitoring and assist for DisplayPort PC VR through an adapter.
Whereas Vive Focus 3 was solely bought to companies, Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient is being provided to shoppers too, primarily pitched for PC VR and priced at $1000.
| HTC Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient | Meta Quest 3 | Sony PlayStation VR2 | |
| Lens Kind | Fresnel | Pancake | Fresnel |
| Show Kind | LCD | LCD | OLED |
| Pixels Per Eye | 2448Γ2448 (RGB) | 2064Γ2208 (RGB) | 2000Γ2040 (PenTile) |
| Eye Monitoring On PC | β | β | β |
| Wi-fi PC VR | H.264/HEVC through Wi-Fi 6E | H.264/HEVC/AV1 through Wi-Fi 6E | β |
| Wired PC VR | Native through DisplayPort ($150 Adapter) | Compressed through USB | Native through DisplayPort |
| Eye Reduction Adjustment | β | β | β |
| Strap Kind | Inflexible Plastic | Fabric (Replaceable) | Halo Strap |
| PC VR Worth | $1000 (+$150 DP Adapter) | $500 | $550 + Adapters |
Vive Focus 3 had primary black & white passthrough. Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient provides two shade cameras for stereo passthrough that HTC claims gives “depth-correct blended actuality”, in addition to a depth projector for scene meshing and improved hand monitoring in low gentle.
The addition of eye monitoring has enabled HTC to take away the lens separation adjustment slider, changed by motorized actuators for totally computerized IPD adjustment, much like Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and Pico 4 Enterprise. This will probably be a welcome enchancment for enterprise and location-based VR venues the place customers usually do not know the best way to alter for his or her IPD, in addition to for shoppers demoing their headset to others.
Eye monitoring additionally works with PC VR, not like PlayStation VR2, that means it may be used to drive your avatar’s eyes in VRChat and for foveated rendering in video games which assist this. And to additional entice PC VR customers, HTC has added assist for lossless DisplayPort PC VR. It requires a $150 adapter although, which will probably be included with preorders. You’ll be able to’t simply plug it instantly into your GPU.
On the standalone aspect, whereas the chipset remains to be the identical XR2 Gen 1 utilized in Quest 2, the attention tracked foveated rendering ought to enhance its efficient efficiency. HTC has upgraded the RAM to 12GB and improved the cooling fan to be each quieter and higher. The corporate says Vive Focus 3 is generally used as a wi-fi PC VR headset, so determined towards the price of upgrading to the XR2 Gen 2.
One other attention-grabbing new characteristic is battery hotswap. Vive Focus 3 had a swappable battery, however doing so would reduce the ability and thus drive a reboot. With Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient, HTC has constructed a 10-20 minute battery into the visor to permit greater than sufficient time to hotswap.
The benefit of inheriting its predecessor’s design is that Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient is suitable with all the identical official equipment. That features the multi battery charger and the $100 face monitoring addon, in addition to the Vive Final Trackers for physique monitoring.
Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient preorders open right this moment. In addition to the DisplayPort PC VR adapter, HTC says it’ll allow you to select “one in all three well-liked sport bundles” as a preorder bonus.
