HTC is revamping its Vive Focus standalone virtual reality headset, adding a 5K screen, a 120-degree field of view, and a swappable battery. The Vive Focus 3 follows HTC’s Vive Focus Plus. Like its predecessor, it’s a self-contained product that uses inside-out tracking instead of external sensors, designed for business customers. The headset will be released worldwide on June 27th for $1,300 a price that includes tech support and a suite of business services.
The Vive Focus 3’s biggest specs upgrade is its display. The headset uses one 2448 × 2448 panel for each eye with a 90Hz refresh rate, compared to 1440 x 1600 pixels per eye with a 75Hz refresh rate for the 2019 Vive Focus Plus. (For the record, there’s no Vive Focus 2 HTC seems to be retroactively giving the Focus Plus that status.) That’s a leap over the 2160 x 2160 pixels per eye you’d find with the HP Reverb G2, a more significant bump over the 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye of the Oculus Quest 2, and a vast i
HTC Vive s Pro 2 and Focus 3 are high-powered 5K VR headsets for pros yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Report: HTC to Announce Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2 Next Week
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email
The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.
Email Address
A report from
Protocol, citing undisclosed “company documents” from HTC, claims that the company will reveal two new headsets during the VIVECON event next week: Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2.
Following HTC’s teases about the upcoming reveal of “game-changing VR headsets,”
Protocol claims the company plans to reveal the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition and Vive Pro 2 headsets. The publication cites “company documents,” and sightings of the headsets on the European ecommerce site Alzashop, apparently now removed. The report says the listings indicated both headsets could launch by May 20th.
It s got a Focus Plus 20,000DPI sensor powering it, but the big step up comes in the form of its polling rate of 20,000Hz, which is way, way above what most gaming mice out there are managing, and effectively makes for way more frequent pinging to your computer to update where the pointer or cursor should be.
On the surface that sounds like a big win, but in practise it s not so guaranteed, since even Razer happily admits this really comes down to margins so fine many people won t be able to perceive them. From Razer s point of view, it s a step forward that could make minute but important differences if you re playing reaction-based, twitchy games like shooters online.
Join / Sign In
CNET editors pick the products and services we write about. When you buy through our links, we may get a commission.
Razer Viper 8K Hz gaming mouse leads at the polls and in my heart
With an 8,000Hz polling rate, Razer s excellent new wired mouse heads for the big leagues. Listen - 04:00 Lori Grunin/CNET
Razer levels up its Viper Ultimate gaming mouse with a wired model, announced Thursday, that octuples its polling rate to a market-leading 8,000Hz. Using the same Focus Plus 20,000-dpi sensor and updated optical switches as the Ultimate, Razer s $80 HyperPolling Viper 8K Hz is fast becoming my favorite mouse. It s the first mouse I ve been able to use at higher resolutions, up to 1,600 dpi for gaming and 6,400 dpi for nongaming, which means good gamers will get a lot more out of it. It feels fast, fluid, accurate and responsive.