Monday, September 16th 2019
HTC's Next VR Product, the Vive Cosmos, to be Available for $699
HTC has invested heavily into its VR place in the market, with the company being one of the most prolific in both exploring the market (that's till a relative niche) and developing improvements on their products. The new Vive Cosmos VR headset is another take on the VR world, one with modularity in mind and set with better technical specification than the original Vive - while undercutting the Vive Pro by $200, down to $699.
The Vive Cosmos features a higher 2880 x 1700p combined lens resolution (90Hz refresh rate), up from the original Vive's 2160 x 1200p. Usability improvements include the faceplate, which is now of a flip-up design that keeps the headset resting on your head when you need to actually take a look at the world around you (or your pet, or your staring significant other and the cold food that lays on the table by now).
The headset is entirely self-contained, with an "inside-out" motion system that doesn't require any exterior, room-scale sensors - but an upgrade module for the headset will make it compatible with such sensors and bring its motion detection acuity up to the same level as regular exterior-based motion detectors. The wireless modular mod is already available, as it was for the Vive Pro, but the Vive Cosmos, being built from the ground-up for such added improvements, will see more of them in the market. Software improvements and a new Vive user interface in the form of the new Vive Reality System. Also quoted are improvements in the controllers, now packing "precision" joysticks. Grab yours from October 3rd.
The Vive Cosmos features a higher 2880 x 1700p combined lens resolution (90Hz refresh rate), up from the original Vive's 2160 x 1200p. Usability improvements include the faceplate, which is now of a flip-up design that keeps the headset resting on your head when you need to actually take a look at the world around you (or your pet, or your staring significant other and the cold food that lays on the table by now).
The headset is entirely self-contained, with an "inside-out" motion system that doesn't require any exterior, room-scale sensors - but an upgrade module for the headset will make it compatible with such sensors and bring its motion detection acuity up to the same level as regular exterior-based motion detectors. The wireless modular mod is already available, as it was for the Vive Pro, but the Vive Cosmos, being built from the ground-up for such added improvements, will see more of them in the market. Software improvements and a new Vive user interface in the form of the new Vive Reality System. Also quoted are improvements in the controllers, now packing "precision" joysticks. Grab yours from October 3rd.