Many VR headset owners buy their devices simply for gaming. Others use them for creative, educational, or professional purposes. With the all-new Vive Focus Vision, it looks set to fill the mid-range professional mixed reality void for those who feel they need it.
The Focus Vision, like the Quest 3 and Vision Pro, has VR cameras that combine real-world images with overlaid virtual objects. The standalone headset is described as the successor to the previous Vive Focus 3, and still uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 processor and has the same 2448 x 2448 pixel resolution per eye with a 120-degree field of view.
eye tracking
Focus Vision integrates eye tracking that also manages automatic measurement of interpupillary distance to form the headset.
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HTC took its first steps into mixed reality with the Vive XR Elite, which is designed to be more experimental than a pair of glasses. The Focus Vision XR looks to be more practical for glasses wearers, with a hot-swappable rear battery that can last around two hours. The headset has a relatively small storage capacity of 128GB, but a microSD card slot can expand that up to 2TB.
Display port mode
This headset also promises to work well with PC gaming, with DisplayPort coming next year that connects directly to your PC's graphics cards and runs apps at 120Hz. The Focus Vision has two USB-C ports, one of which can connect to DisplayPort via an adapter.
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At €1,199, the Focus Vision sits well above the Quest 3, but is significantly less expensive than Apple’s Vision Pro. While gamers have a great, affordable headset with the Quest 3, the Focus Vision could offer a middle ground for businesses and developers looking for a compact, PC-compatible headset for training. In that sense, it might be the most practical, most premium, and most PC-friendly headset we’ve seen this year.
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