HTC shows off Vive Focus headset, standalone Daydream VR accessory cancelled

The Vive Focus will accomplish after a affiliated smartphone or PC system, admitting HTC says its ahead appear Daydream VR angle has been canned.

This commodity originally appeared on our sister site, VR Source. 

HTC aboriginal appear that it was alive on a standalone VR angle artefact way aback in July, but there’s been little added altercation on the assemblage aback then. This was to be a China-exclusive angle that would lack the antecedent activating PC requirement. Yesterday, HTC appear the device, accepted as the Vive Focus, in China and provided a bigger attending at what it would offer.

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As you can see in the video beneath (via SlashGear), the accessory is a far cry from the architecture apparent on the original Vive, advancing as it does in a sky dejected color. It’s not absolutely antithetical to the Acer Mixed Reality angle for Windows seen here, and admitting the blush arrangement ability not amuse everyone, the all-embracing artful looks like a significant improvement over the approved Vive (which, let’s be honest, looked appealing awful).

The angle should fit bigger too, featuring a alternating punch at the aback to bind or alleviate it like on the Vive Deluxe Audio Strap, and it comes with what looks like a abate adaptation of its absolute Vive controller, complete with trackpad. What’s more, the assemblage doesn’t crave a smartphone to accomplish like added VR products and instead will run on a belvedere alleged Wave VR with admission to the VivePort store.

We still don’t accept any added account about the affectionate of accouterments it will be based on, or its absolution date and price, however. We’d ahead heard that it will be based on a Snapdragon 835 dent and accept an AMOLED screen, as able-bodied as affection 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) tracking, but that’s all we accept to go on appropriate now.

Though this accessory is set for Asia, HTC had planned to accompany a standalone VR angle to added markets to assignment with Google’s Daydream platform. According to RoadToVR, though, HTC has now accepted that those affairs accept been cancelled.

“We still accept a abundant accord with Google, but will not be bringing a standalone accessory to Western markets on Daydream,” an HTC agent told the website. “We’re attractive carefully at our accouterments roadmap, and will allotment back there is added to appear for Western users abutting year.”

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