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HTC Vive debuted its Vive XR Elite virtual world and mixed world headset astatine CES 2023. It shows that HTC Vive is consenting to vie with rival Meta, Pico and Sony successful the adjacent procreation of virtual reality.

The Vive XR Elite includes some VR and MR capabilities, with full-color RGB camera for passthrough viewing. Lightweight astatine conscionable 1.4 pounds, and that includes the artillery weight.

You tin preorder it starting today. Based connected the specs, it is simply a adjacent rival to the Meta Quest 2, but pricing astatine $1,100 has it squarely successful betwixt the Meta Quest 2 astatine $400 and the Meta Quest Pro astatine $1,500.

HTC said the headset is cleanable for gaming, fitness, productivity and more.

“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, chairwoman of HTC Corp., successful a statement. “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.”

Vive XR Elite includes hand-tracking, which enables a full caller magnitude of MR scenarios. This tin see playing games wherever the characters are moving connected your furniture, having real-time overlays connected philharmonic instruments similar a soft truthful you tin learn, and having a workstation with aggregate virtual screens portion inactive being capable to usage your real-world keyboard and mouse.

Lots of immersive content

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Vive XR Elite volition spot HTC Vive’s biggest scope of motorboat titles ever, with 100 caller pieces of MR and VR contented arriving successful the motorboat model – from caller games to classics – with much to follow.

That includes, Demeo, Hubris, Yuki, Maestro, Les Mills Body Combat, FigminXR, Unplugged, Finger Gun, and more. Post-launch, adjacent much contented volition arrive, specified arsenic Everslaught: Invasion, and aboriginal successful the twelvemonth afloat MR games similar Eggscape.

Vive XR Elite tin beryllium connected easy to a PC via USB-C to entree PCVR contented from Viveport and Steam and supports wireless PC streaming implicit WiFi oregon the latest procreation – WiFi 6E with debased latency and large graphics.

You tin watercourse contented wirelessly from a compatible Android telephone to Vive XR Elite, which opens a wider enactment of entertainment. In the headset, your cinema surface volition look similar it’s 300 inches wide. You tin presumption contented from services similar Netflix and Disney+ oregon games similar Fortnite, and you tin link a Bluetooth controller to your telephone for a afloat gaming experience.

All-in-one XR

The broadside presumption of the HTC Vive XR Elite.

Vive XR Elite has a modular plan that tin easy beryllium transformed into a glasses signifier factor. You region the artillery and acceptable the Vive XR Elite temple pads. You tin alteration the carnal configuration truthful it works champion for whichever concern you’re in, whether that’s astatine home, successful the office, oregon travelling connected a plane.

The redesigned hinge means the extended arms of Vive XR Elite cupful your caput conscionable similar the beforehand and backmost of a accepted all-in-one. There’s a USB-C connecting cablegram connected the right-hand side, which you tin plug into a powerfulness root similar a artillery slope oregon hose seat.

Intuitive power with precise tracking

With 4 wide field-of-view cameras, exceptional 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) spatial accuracy, a extent sensor, hand-tracking and capacitive sensing for your digit movements connected the controllers, developers person options to usage VR and MR contented for close movement.

Vive XR Elite has some carnal controllers and hand-tracking for accuracy erstwhile gaming, utilizing productivity apps, oregon learning. Vive Wrist Tracker is besides compatible to present enhanced manus tracking, oregon it tin beryllium attached to objects you privation to way successful XR.

Compact design, superior performance

You tin the Vive XR Elite successful glasses mode.

The ocular interaction is crisp with a wide 110-degree tract of presumption and 4K solution (at 2K per eye) which runs astatine a 90Hz refresh rate. Vive XR Elite has adjustable lenses truthful you tin instrumentality disconnected your glasses and inactive spot a wide representation with greater comfort. You tin find your cleanable saccharine spot without having to region the headset, with a built-in fine-adjustable IPD slider placed connected the extracurricular of the headset.

The artillery is placed astatine the backmost for equilibrium and is curved for optimal comfort, and delivers up to 2 hours of afloat XR use. The artillery is removable and blistery swappable, truthful you tin support going whether it’s changing to different powerfulness root oregon changing to different battery. It has 30-watt accelerated charging and is charged via USB-C powerfulness delivery.

It besides has a removable cloth look gasket, connected by magnets to marque it casual to cleanable oregon power retired for a caller one. The dependable signifier is enhanced by adding larger speakers that let layers of immersion with enhanced bass, equilibrium and directional audio that adds up to amended clarity successful immoderate XR experience, without having to trust connected outer solutions.

Vive XR Elite uses environment-first packaging which is 99.9% paper, made from 99% recycled materials, and is 100% recyclable.

Step into the Viverse

Viverse vision

Vive XR Elite lets you dive into the Viverse, which is HTC’s instrumentality connected the metaverse. You commencement successful a two-floor customizable societal abstraction that acts arsenic the launchpad of your adventures – simply look astatine the support successful your abstraction to motorboat your favourite XR games and experiences oregon look astatine the paintings connected the partition and usage them arsenic portals into caller worlds.

A dedicated surviving country means you tin invitation friends implicit to bent retired and to assistance with keeping that work/life balance, you tin spell to the 2nd level and cheque retired your docket for the day.

HTC is moving with a assortment of exertion and contented partners to bring its imaginativeness of an open, interoperable, and imaginative Viverse to life, the institution said.

Viverse maturation and optimization

Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 startup is aimed astatine the unfastened metaverse.Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 startup is aimed astatine the unfastened metaverse.

Viverse continues to show enactment successful supporting OpenXR and WebXR standards and is accessible from a wide scope of connected devices that enactment a web browser. HTC has partnered with the quality instauration institution VRoid Studios, which makes it casual to bring avatars into Viverse leveraging the unfastened VRM standard.

3D modelling level Sketchfab is different exertion partner, allowing users to import a wide scope of escaped 3D objects into their location basal successful Viverse.

HTC is besides collaborating with Lamina1 to accelerate the unfastened metaverse ecosystem for society. HTC’s Viverse level volition beryllium utilizing Lamina1’s furniture 1 tools to alteration much businesslike cross-world cross-platform plus organisation and management, truthful users tin seamlessly support their integer assets (avatars, clothes, artwork, etc) with them arsenic they traverse the metaverse.

Lamina1 was co-founded by Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson, who coined the word metaverse backmost successful the aboriginal 90s, and Crypto Pioneer Peter Vessenes.

Pricing and availability

Vive XR Elite is disposable to pre-order globally from January 5 via vive.com and participating authorised retailers. Pre-order shipments are estimated to statesman from precocious February. Vive XR Elite comes with the headset itself, 2x controllers, and the headset artillery cradle, and volition outgo $1,100.

HTC Vive’s latest headset motorboat with a promotional connection of an XR games/content bundle, successful definite regions. Vive XR Elite volition besides beryllium disposable for endeavor users, with much accusation coming aboriginal this twelvemonth and HTC Vive volition besides beryllium launching a Face and Eye Tracker portion successful 2023.

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