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Free at last—HTC cuts the wires that bind

Now you can walk away from your computer—maybe HTC has announced the Vive Focus, which they say is an all-in-one mobile device free from any connections to PCs or smartphones.   HTC’s wireless VR HMD     Through the power of that amazing Qualcomm 835 super SoC, HTC has been presumably able to do all the processing in the Vive ...

Jon Peddie

Now you can walk away from your computer—maybe HTC has announced the Vive Focus, which they say is an all-in-one mobile device free from any connections to PCs or smartphones.   HTC’s wireless VR HMD     Through the power of that amazing Qualcomm 835 super SoC, HTC has been presumably able to do all the processing in the Vive Focus HMD, just as if it had a smartphones tucked in it. The new HMD, says HTC, has 6-degrees-of-freedom tracking (6DoF), so one can move around a room, free of wire-tethers and umbilicals. However, there is no information on how
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