HTC’s new headset will reportedly be called “Vive XR Elite” and cost $1400 - MIXED Reality News

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Update January 1, 2023:

Lynch posts much images connected Twitter of the caller Vive headset, which helium says volition beryllium called the “Vive XR Elite.” Lynch claims that the terms volition beryllium $1400.

Twitter idiosyncratic Inscothen recovered an beforehand listing connected the Vive Store for the Vive XR Elite astatine the equivalent of astir $1400.

Inscothen recovered the accusation by simply Googling for Vive XR Elite – the web store was already displayed successful the hunt results. The website is accessible via the web cache here.

The artillery successful the backmost of the VR headset is expected to beryllium a powerbank that is connected to the beforehand portion of the headset via USB. This way, the artillery could beryllium changed successful betwixt and the headset could beryllium successful usage without charging pauses. The authoritative unveiling volition instrumentality spot connected January 5 astatine CES 2023 (see nonfiction beneath for much information).

Original nonfiction December 16, 2022:

At CES 2023 successful January, HTC volition present a slim VR AR headset that is expected to vie with the Meta Quest (Pro). Now we got the archetypal authoritative picture.

HTC showed the archetypal teaser for a new VR headset for consumers backmost successful October. The institution hinted that the upcoming instrumentality could beryllium a premix of the slim Vive Flow headset, which requires an outer player, and the higher-quality standalone Vive Focus 3. Vive Flow is simply a flop, Focus 3 is lone sold to enterprises and arcades.

HTC plans its comeback connected the user market

HTC wants to marque a comeback connected the user XR marketplace with the caller headset. According to HTC’s planetary merchandise main Shen Ye, the as-yet-unnamed instrumentality volition beryllium slim, person each the hardware built in, and connection full-fledged augmented reality capabilities successful summation to virtual reality. The caller Vive headset volition beryllium 1 of the lightest XR glasses connected the market, Ye said.

The archetypal authoritative representation shows a plan akin to the Vive Flow, with broadside and front-facing tracking cameras and a depth sensor. Like the Quest Pro, the headset volition connection stereoscopic colour video passthrough for mixed world applications, which would acceptable it isolated from the Quest 2 and Pico 4. The Pico 4 besides offers colour passthrough, but lone successful monoscopy. HTC’s video passthrough is expected to beryllium bully capable to work substance connected the show oregon smartphone.

The instrumentality comes with the aforesaid VR controllers arsenic Focus 3 and besides supports optical manus tracking. The artillery of the standalone headset is expected to past astir 2 hours.

Due to the extent sensor, the caller Vive headset could successful mentation enable higher-quality AR applications than Quest Pro, arsenic it tin seizure the situation faster and much precisely than Quest Pro with axenic camera tracking. Ultimately, however, bundle prime plays a decisive relation here, and developers indispensable archetypal find meaningful exertion scenarios for video passthrough.

HTC wants to basal retired from Meta with amended privateness protection. VR headsets are presently “massively subsidized by companies that are trying to vacuum up and instrumentality idiosyncratic information to supply to advertisers,” Ye told The Verge. “We don’t judge the mode that we privation to attack it is to compromise connected privacy.”

New Vive headset volition beryllium pricier than Quest 2 and Pico 4

So overmuch hardware comes astatine a price: according to a November leak from Brad Lynch, the caller Vive headset volition outgo much than $1,000 and, much similar Quest Pro, volition beryllium aimed astatine “prosumers.” Modules for look and oculus tracking are to travel later. The processor is the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1, a derivative of the Snapdragon 865 smartphone SoC that is optimized for VR and AR and has been installed successful astir standalone XR headsets successful caller years. Meta Quest Pro uses the Snapdragon XR2+ (infos), a revision of this spot with up to 30 percent much performance, mostly acknowledgment to a spatial separation of CPU and RAM.

A render representation of the caller HTC headset with controllers. The render is said to beryllium based connected leaked images. | Image: SadlyitsBradley / Marcus KaneThe optical strategy includes level pancake lenses and 2 LC displays with a solution of 1,920 by 1,920 pixels astatine 120 hertz. The lenses are expected to let adjusting the ocular acuity, which would beryllium beneficial for radical with oculus disorders. HTC besides plans a modular design for antithetic exertion scenarios.

An earlier mentation of this nonfiction stated that Quest Pro uses the XR1 Gen 1. This accusation was incorrect and is corrected successful the text.

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