TechVRHTC VIVE’s 5G VR is really exciting. I hope Apple’s AR/VR headset copies itFor once, I’m hoping that Apple will Think Similar when it comes to its AR/VR headset in 2022When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechVRHTC VIVE’s 5G VR is really exciting. I hope Apple’s AR/VR headset copies itFor once, I’m hoping that Apple will Think Similar when it comes to its AR/VR headset in 2022When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
For once, I’m hoping that Apple will Think Similar when it comes to its AR/VR headset in 2022
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One of the most interesting announcements atCES 2022is HTC’s new “portable, private 5G experience” for its VIVE Focus 3, a wireless all-in-oneVR headsetwith 5G connectivity. As much as we love theHTC VIVE Pro 2, you can hardly take it out and about with you. But the VIVE Focus 3 is designed for you to do just that.
HTC is targeting the corporate world with the Vive Focus 3, but the “high-fidelity, low-latency wireless VR” it’s designed to deliver is just as relevant to the rest of us too. And I can’t help thinking that the way HTC is approaching this could be howAppleis thinking too. We knowApple’s AR/VR headsetis coming, probably this year, and we know it’s designed to be mobile. So what HTC’s doing here is very interesting indeed.
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It’s not the only way the HTC VIVE Focus 3 works – its Snapdragon XR2 platform is pretty powerful, and you can run VR apps locally – but it enables developers to think beyond the capabilities of the headset. And that’s awfully exciting.
We don’t know whetherApple’s AR/VR headsetwill have 5G in the first generation, but mobile connectivity is clearly coming: according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s goal is for its AR/VR headset to replace theiPhonein 10 years, and AR’s most exciting applications are in the outside world, not your front room. I think Apple may do what it did with theApple Watchat first, with theiPhone 14handling the processing and the headset just displaying the results. But in the long term the AR/VR headset needs to run free, and iCloud processing could help it do just that.
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