HTC simply introduced Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient, a refresh of Vive Focus 3.
Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient inherits the rear battery design, 2.5K LCD shows, fresnel lenses, and unique Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset from Vive Focus 3. However HTC has upgraded the sensor suite and RAM, and added a number of new options together with eye monitoring and help for DisplayPort PC VR by way of an adapter.
Whereas Vive Focus 3 was solely offered to companies, Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient is being provided to customers too, primarily pitched for PC VR and priced at $1000.
| HTC Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient |
Meta Quest 3 |
Sony PlayStation VR2 |
|
| Lens Kind | Fresnel | Pancake | Fresnel |
| Show Kind | LCD | LCD | OLED |
| Pixels Per Eye | 2448×2448 (RGB) |
2064×2208 (RGB) |
2000×2040 (PenTile) |
| Eye Monitoring On PC |
✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Wi-fi PC VR |
H.264/HEVC by way of Wi-Fi 6E |
H.264/HEVC/AV1 by way of Wi-Fi 6E |
❌ |
| Wired PC VR |
Native by way of DisplayPort ($150 Adapter) |
Compressed by way of USB |
Native by way of DisplayPort |
| Eye Reduction Adjustment |
❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Strap Kind | Inflexible Plastic | Material (Replaceable) |
Halo Strap |
| PC VR Worth | $1000 (+$150 DP Adapter) |
$500 | $550 + Adapters |
Vive Focus 3 had fundamental black & white passthrough. Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient provides two coloration cameras for stereo passthrough that HTC claims presents “depth-correct combined actuality”, in addition to a depth projector for scene meshing and improved hand monitoring in low mild.
The addition of eye monitoring has enabled HTC to take away the lens separation adjustment slider, changed by motorized actuators for absolutely automated IPD adjustment, just like Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and Pico 4 Enterprise. This can be a welcome enchancment for enterprise and location-based VR venues the place customers usually do not know how you can regulate for his or her IPD, in addition to for customers demoing their headset to others.
Eye monitoring additionally works with PC VR, not like PlayStation VR2, that means it may be used to drive your avatar’s eyes in VRChat and for foveated rendering in video games which help this. And to additional entice PC VR customers, HTC has added help for lossless DisplayPort PC VR. It requires a $150 adapter although, which can be included with preorders. You may’t simply plug it immediately into your GPU.
On the standalone aspect, whereas the chipset continues to be the identical XR2 Gen 1 utilized in Quest 2, the attention tracked foveated rendering ought to enhance its efficient efficiency. HTC has upgraded the RAM to 12GB and improved the cooling fan to be each quieter and higher. The corporate says Vive Focus 3 is generally used as a wi-fi PC VR headset, so determined towards the price of upgrading to the XR2 Gen 2.
One other fascinating new function is battery hotswap. Vive Focus 3 had a swappable battery, however doing so would minimize the ability and thus power a reboot. With Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient, HTC has constructed a 10-20 minute battery into the visor to permit greater than sufficient time to hotswap.
The benefit of inheriting its predecessor’s design is that Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient is suitable with all the identical official equipment. That features the multi battery charger and the $100 face monitoring addon, in addition to the Vive Final Trackers for physique monitoring.
Vive Focus Imaginative and prescient preorders open as we speak. In addition to the DisplayPort PC VR adapter, HTC says it would allow you to select “one among three standard recreation bundles” as a preorder bonus.
