HTC Announces its First Standalone VR Headset - IGN

HTC has yet unveiled the HTC Vive XR Elite arsenic an all-in-one VR headset meant to vie with the Meta Quest 2.

The HTC Vive XR Elite looks dissimilar astir gaming VR headsets successful that it’s truthful compact. The beforehand of the headset lone juts retired from the beforehand of your look by a fewer inches. The artillery has besides been placed wrong the backmost headrest, truthful it’s heavier successful the backmost to the value disconnected your face.

If anything, the Vive XR Elite looks similar a much casual and minimal brace of VR goggles akin to the company’s past product, the HTC Vive Flow. However, it’s inactive a precise susceptible headset for gaming acknowledgment to its 4K solution with 2K displays for each oculus a refresh astatine 90Hz, and offers a 110-degree tract of view.

The headset features a Snapdragon XR 2 chipset with 12GB RAM and 120GB ROM to store games and contented locally connected the headset. Of course, you tin besides link this headset to a gaming PC implicit USB-C for a higher-resolution, desktop-powered VR experience. The artillery is rated for 2 hours, and it offers 30W accelerated charging, which should springiness you a half-battery complaint successful 30 minutes.

It’s besides much comfy to deterioration than astir VR headsets, acknowledgment to a precise pliable removable cloth gasket that’s besides casual to cleanable and power out. Every oculus has built-in diopters, truthful astir users tin instrumentality disconnected their glasses portion utilizing this headset.

The arms connected this headset are designed to beryllium minimally bulky and beryllium to the sides of your caput similar a brace of glasses. That said, determination are inactive speakers built into the stems, which HTC committedness to present improved bass, directional audio, and clarity implicit the dependable provided by its erstwhile headsets.

You tin besides region the artillery battalion disconnected the stems, link it to a telephone oregon PC with USB-C, and usage the headset similar a brace of VR goggles. Without the artillery pack, the Vive XR Elite weighs a specified 0.53 pounds (240g).

Moreover, this VR headset tin fold up similar a brace of sunglasses and beryllium stored successful a compact lawsuit for travel.

As for tracking, the HTC Vive XR Elite comes with 6Dof controllers, positive it tin bash manus and digit tracking acknowledgment to a laser depth-sensing camera astatine the beforehand of the headset – nary IR lighthouses needed. The headset besides features an RGB camera astatine the beforehand to enactment mixed-reality experiences.

Regarding content, HTC claims determination volition beryllium implicit 100 games disposable astatine motorboat connected apical of Vive Connect. Users tin besides watercourse video contented and games similar Fortnite Mobile from Android phones to a backstage 100-inch surface portion wearing the headset.

The HTC Vive XR Elite is expected to beryllium connected shelves successful February and volition retail for $1,099 for the headset, controllers, and carrying case.

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