Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient Introduced with Blended Actuality & Eye-tracking, $1,000 Worth & Pre-order Dates

HTC right now revealed its subsequent standalone XR headset, the Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient. The corporate seems to be interesting once more to enterprise and prosumers, packing in a mishmash of specs from Vive Focus 3 and Vive Elite XR—priced at $1,000.

HTC launched pre-orders right now for its new MR headset, Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient. Pre-orders can be found from right now by October seventeenth, after which the headset will presumably launch.

Chances are you’ll acknowledge many of the specs under from Vive Focus 3, which was launched primarily for enterprise in 2021. It has the identical controllers, similar Fresnel optics and twin 2,448 x 2,448 decision LCDs, and works with Vive Focus 3 equipment too, just like the non-obligatory Vive Focus 3 facial monitoring module ($100).

In contrast to Focus 3, Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient nevertheless boasts coloration passthrough for combined actuality due to twin coloration cameras and depth sensor, bringing it a lot nearer in perform to the corporate’s Quest Professional competitor Vive XR Elite, which was launched in 2023 for $1,100 (now $900).

Moreover, it comes with 4 front-facing monitoring cameras and infrared floodlight for illuminated hand monitoring.

Packing in Vive XR Elite’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset, Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient comes with built-in eye-tracking—later added an non-obligatory module on XR Elite which additionally tracks the person’s mouth. Therefore ‘Imaginative and prescient’ (no relation to Imaginative and prescient Professional). Automated IPD adjustment for customers between 57–72mm should enchantment to VR arcades and different enterprise use instances the place a number of individuals use the identical headset.

The corporate calls it a “hybrid machine,” owing to its skill to play PC VR video games through Steam and Viveport. In addition, pre-orders come together with a newly unveiled Vive Wired Streaming Package at no cost ($150 MRSP), which features a 5-meter streaming cable and converter, each with DisplayPort compatibility, providing what HTC says is lossless visuals from PC to the headset itself.

Ostensibly interesting to avid gamers, pre-orders are additionally set to return with seven video games: Metro Awakening VR (coming to Viveport in late 2024), Arizona Sunshine 2, Bootrap Island, Breachers, The Pirate Queen, Taskmaster VR, Kayak VR: Mirage, Wanderer, and MR-compatible video games Puzzling Locations, Magic Keys, Toy Trains, Yuki, and Figmin XR.

Try the spec sheet under:

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