HTC Vive announces new XR Elite VR headset costing £1299 - Eurogamer.net

HTC Vive has announced its marque caller XR Elite headset, which combines Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality, for a whopping £1,299.

The headset includes a afloat colour RGB camera for passthrough, positive hand-tracking, meaning players tin acquisition real-time overlays and much interactivity betwixt the instrumentality and their existent satellite environment.

The versatile, lightweight instrumentality tin beryllium utilized wirelessly oregon connected to a PC for PCVR games from Viveport and Steam.

The XR Elite offers a wide 110 FOV, 4K solution and 90Hz refresh rate. It weighs 625g (including the battery) and delivers up to 2 hours of use. The artillery battalion tin besides beryllium removed for glasses-like usage instead.

Other features see carnal controllers and hand-tracking, a removable look gasket for casual cleaning, immersive audio, and connectivity via USB-C.

During its motorboat window, 100 caller pieces of MR and VR contented volition beryllium available. That's successful summation to Viverse, a personalised societal abstraction wherever players entree games and interact with friends.

"The VIVE XR Elite all-in-one represents the adjacent milestone successful the progression towards the afloat immersive internet, going beyond today's VR with close pass-through video to unfastened up a caller realm of realism successful learning and playing," said Cher Wang, co-founder and chairwoman of HTC Corp.

"This precocious yet compact instrumentality offers the champion of each worlds for consumers, providing the perfect carnal gateway to the beingness of experiences offered by Viverse, our mentation of the metaverse, with the widest assortment of contented inputs adjacent up to the precise latest standards specified arsenic WiFi 6E."

Pre-orders for the instrumentality are present open, with pre-order shipments estimated to statesman from precocious February.

At a whopping £1,299 successful the UK, this is intelligibly a high-end instrumentality for VR aficionados. The XR Elite comes with the headset, 2 controllers, and a artillery cradle. That's inactive cheaper than the Meta Quest Pro.

The timing is cardinal too, arsenic the XR Elite volition vie straight with Sony's PSVR2, which besides arrives successful February. That instrumentality - portion inactive pricey, particularly for casual players - is half the terms astatine £530 (though of people requires the PlayStation 5 console too).