At HTC’s Vive Developer Conference, the company finally got to show off its upcoming standalone headset to the Beijing crowd – the Vive Focus.
Designed to be an all-in-one device, the Focus won’t need to be hooked up to a powerful desktop PC in order to run and won’t have the same interactivity constraints that mobile VR currently has.
Instead, the unit intends to tread the lines between power, portability, and affordability, which puts it in competition with some recently announced Oculus headsets, in particular the Project Santa Cruz and more affordable Oculus Go.
The unit will be feature an AMOLED display and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 CPU, capable of “world-scale” tracking – the name HTC is giving to its inside-out 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) tracking. This allows for detecting three-dimensional movement and three-dimensional rotation in any environment, with no need for additional external sensors.
The Vive Focus hasn’t been given any official launch date or pricing, but it’s safe to assume it will be available in China before going global.
Vive Wave
Alongside this announcement, HTC also unleashed its new VR development platform, which will be utilised by the Focus. The company hopes that Vive Wave will “bring together the highly fragmented mobile VR market” by make device optimisation and content creation easier for third-party developers.
With 12 third-party hardware partners already supporting the platform, and over 35 developers already creating content for the platform, Wave’s future is looking bright… at least in China.
While a lot of the presentation did reference China-specific goals, the likelihood of these developments eventually reaching the global audience is good.
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