HTC is teasing a brand new Vive headset.
On the finish of a brand new video posted throughout the corporate’s YouTube channel and social media channels titled HTC VIVE: A Imaginative and prescient for You, the silhouette of the brand new headset might be seen. The video description reads:
Devoted folks have all the time discovered methods to interrupt down limitations and redefine the human expertise. Via prolonged actuality, we got down to do the identical.
But every part you’ve seen has solely been the beginning of one thing higher.
Maintain your eyes open — what’s coming subsequent will change the sport for good.
In January Qualcomm, the corporate that provides the chipsets for all non-Apple standalone headsets, confirmed that HTC will likely be one of many 5 corporations to make use of its new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset, a higher-end variant of the bottom XR2 Gen 2 utilized in Meta Quest 3.
XR2+ Gen 2 can even be utilized in Samsung’s upcoming headset, Sony’s standalone headset, Immersed’s Visor, and Play For Dream MR.
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Qualcomm simply introduced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset utilized in Quest 3.
HTC started its journey in VR by way of a partnership with Valve that spawned the unique HTC Vive, the primary headset with room-scale positional monitoring and tracked controllers. It efficiently launched in 2016, and at its peak it accounted for 2 thirds of SteamVR utilization. HTC and Valve seemingly went their separate methods quickly after although, and HTC started a sluggish spiral to irrelevance within the shopper market.
HTC’s higher-end Vive Professional headsets and follow-on Vive Cosmos headsets have been by no means capable of obtain the identical success as the unique Vive, particularly after Valve launched its personal Index headset, and at this time HTC headsets account for lower than 7% of SteamVR utilization.
The corporate has principally transitioned from the patron market to the enterprise market although, the place it has seen respectable success with each its Vive Professional PC VR headsets and Vive Focus standalone headsets.
Vive Focus 3 launched in 2021 and nonetheless has larger decision than Quest 3, although makes use of the outdated authentic XR2 chipset. Extra just lately HTC launched Vive XR Elite with the identical chipset however a extra compact design with coloration passthrough, and it is also provided to customers, although has seen restricted success in that market.
We’ll preserve a detailed eye on HTC within the coming days and weeks because it appears to be gearing as much as launch a Vive Focus 4, Vive XR Elite 2, or one thing fully new.
