According to HTC, these should keep you going for 4-5 hours of continuous use, so it’s not what I would consider a wireless headset the way the Quest 2 is since there is no internal cell and you’ll always need to be tethered to something. During my hands-on, I was connected to one of the Vive-branded 10,000mAh power banks the entire time I used it, but it should work with any USB-C compatible battery pack. The entire time you use it, the Vive Flow needs to connect to an external power source. There is an onboard battery, but it’s only meant for hot swapping. Using a phone as the controller was janky at best, but I’ll reserve judgment since I was talking to three people at a time while playing. There are also two front-facing camera sensors for 6DoF head and hand tracking, but you’re not really meant to be playing room-scale games here, and I was only able to test it with Space Slurpies, a VR multiplayer arcade game that has you controlling snakes. It supports 3D spatial audio and can connect to Bluetooth headphones and earbuds. The Flow has a 3.2K display, a 100-degree field of view, and a 75Hz refresh rate. I can see it being useful for airplane travel. It essentially just creates a cinema-sized VR screen as most headsets do. I was able to connect to Netflix and start watching Squid Games without any real problem. Your phone also doubles as your Bluetooth controller and your main point of interaction with the Flow, so no other remote or controller is included.Īside from these apps, you’re also able to mirror the screen and run various streaming services and games off your phone, PC, or laptop.

While it does have a Qualcomm XR chip and runs an Android-based OS, it’s not enough for gaming and mostly serves as a way to get onto the Viveport platform, which will be your main portal for various apps and games. The hardware on the Vive Flow is a bit vague to me since it’s not entirely a stand-alone headset in the way the Quest 2 is. Two new ‘game-changing’ VR headsets could arrive at HTC’s ViveCon next week HTC’s new Vive VR Wrist Tracker tracks hands accurately - even when out of sightĮverything HTC announced at ViveCon 2021: Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2 With its fabric finish, black plastic, and flexible headband, the big selling point here is that it’s compact at 189 grams, looking and feeling more like glasses than the standard top-heavy VR headset. On first look, the HTC Vive Flow looks like a pair of welding goggles, complete with the bug-like mirrored front panel that’s immensely reflective and was quite an ordeal to photograph under the cloudy sky.

Ajay Kumar/Digital Trends Comfort and fit are the biggest selling point Admirable aspirations in principle, but the $499 price was the sticking point for me, as I suspect it’ll be for most people who compare its sparse hardware to the $299 Oculus Quest 2, which is capable of doing much more in terms of multimedia and gaming. HTC, for its part, did its best to convince me of various use cases ranging from mediation and wellness to use in care homes and hospices, as well as helping relieve some of the loneliness and stress caused by COVID.

Am I supposed to meditate with this thing on?.

Comfort and fit are the biggest selling point.

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