HTC finally makes its standalone VR headset official: Vive Focus on its way

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.

The Vive Focus hasn’t been given any official launch date or pricing, but it’s safe to assume that it'll 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 it, 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.

Harry Domanski
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