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According to The Verge, which was provided with a render of the caller hardware, HTC is readying to uncover yet different consumer-focused virtual world and augmented world headset astatine CES 2023 adjacent month, with features that volition perchance rival the recently-announced Meta Quest Pro, including full-color passthrough video.
Although the afloat announcement and uncover is inactive a fewer weeks away, HTC teased immoderate aboriginal details astir the unannounced hardware to The Verge. Like the Meta Quest Pro and older Quest models, the headset volition beryllium a self-contained, all-in-one portion (unlike astir of HTC’s different offerings, which requires a imperishable transportation to a gaming PC) with astir 2 hours of artillery beingness and enactment for controllers with six-degrees of detected motion, positive hand-tracking.
The unnamed headset volition besides see front-facing and side-facing cameras, allowing the wearer to inactive spot their surroundings successful afloat color, facilitating augmented world and mixed world experiences. That was arguably the astir compelling crushed to splurge connected the precocious announced, $1,500 Quest Pro, arsenic Meta’s older headsets lone supply a grainy, achromatic and achromatic video provender of a user’s surroundings to assistance guarantee they don’t clang into thing (or anyone). However, the caller HTC headset volition perchance outperform the competition, with HTC promising capable item to let users to inactive work substance connected computers and smartphones done the passthrough video, portion the summation of a extent sensor volition besides marque it overmuch amended astatine accurately mapping a user’s surroundings and inserting virtual contented into it.
The render of the caller headset doesn’t supply excessively galore further details, though it doesn’t look substantially antithetic to the caller HTC Vive Flow, which looked similar an over-sized brace of information glasses. That goes with hints HTC posted this October that its adjacent large merchandise volition beryllium compact and lightweight.
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HTC volition besides uncover details astir the caller headset’s pricing astatine CES, but Shen Ye, the company’s planetary caput of product, told The Verge that it doesn’t program to subsidize the hardware by collecting and selling users’ data, and arsenic a effect the caller hardware volition astir apt beryllium considerably much costly than the $400 Meta Quest 2. That’s bully quality for those who worth their privacy, but it could marque the n
ew headset a pugnacious merchantability for astir consumers, who look blessed to commercialized privateness for heavy discounted hardware.”
Update 12/16/22 astatine 2:05 PM:
This nonfiction primitively stated that the Vive Focus 3 required a PC connection, which is not the case. We regret the error.
