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But 5G will take time to roll out and probably widespread 5G VR streaming will take some years. Of course, HTC’s dream is 5G streaming: the fact that the Vive Cosmos will be able to connect to a 5G phone and that Viveport Infinity looks a lot like the Netflix of VR, clearly shows what is the direction that the company wants to take. Be sure that in October I will immediately try it and review it… 😉 A glimpse of the future The evolution of VR content, as envisioned by Mister President (Image by Alvin Wang Graylin) At the time of writing, no reviews are available yet. so, considering that you can launch Steam games with the Viveport launcher… you know what I mean 🙂 ReviewsĪll of this seems overly cool… but since the feature has not been launched yet, we must wait for it to be released in the wild so that we can test it and see how much it works well.

FOCUS GAMER HEADSET PC

This will let you access in streaming on the Focus more than 1700+ PC VR titles at no additional cost!Īnyway, whatever content seen by Viveport can be used with this streaming feature. Notice that to use it, you must own a Viveport Infinity subscription. HTC hopes to deploy it for October.Īt the beginning, it will be an exclusive feature of the Vive Focus Plus, but then it will be made compatible with all the other Wave VR headsets.

FOCUS GAMER HEADSET PLUS

Streaming to Vive Focus Plus is expected in Q4 2019. And considering that the Viveport Infinity subscription encompasses both PC VR and standalone VR, it is clear how HTC is continuously blending the line between PC and mobile virtual reality. The user experience seems incredibly natural, and the Vive Focus Plus becomes this way the first device that can work natively both as a standalone device and a wirelessly connected PC headset. I don’t usually praise HTC for its UX… but this time, they had really a great idea. In the lower right corner, you can see that the user has selected the “PC Stream” tab, and so he is able to select PC VR games and play them on his mobile headset

And in fact it is… but if you read the titles of the games, you can see that they are actually PC VR ones (e.g. At a first sight, this seems the standard UI of the menu of the Vive Focus Plus. This way you can launch a cool game like Superhot VR as if it were a native title of the Focus Plus… and play it without the hassle of a cable. It all feels natural, once the PC and the Focus are connected. No need to continuously remove and put on your headset again. You use the same main menu of the Focus that you already use to start all the other mobile VR games, just selecting a new tab. And what is even more beautiful is that it is embedded into the UI of the headset. It is easy to notice that this process is far easier than the previous one listed above.

You wear your Vive Focus Plus, and inside the main UI of the headset, you choose the “PC Stream” tab, select the game to play and start playing.

You make Viveport recognize your Vive Focus Plus.

You connect the PC and the mobile headset (Vive Focus Plus) to the same Wi-fi network (a 5Ghz Wi-fi is advised).

Conceptually, it is not that different from the solutions listed above, but what is interesting is that for the first time, this is embedded into the official store of a major vendor. Today HTC has unveiled an official streaming solution for Viveport on the Vive Focus Plus. The process is anyway slightly complicated, it feels like a workaround. The results are nice, even if there are some visual artifacts and some latency. Notice that I’m talking about Steam, because usually these streaming solution target SteamVR because Oculus is a closed system The content will be rendered on the PC and streamed to the mobile device.

You can launch your Steam games on PC and play them on your mobile headset.At this point, Steam VR sees your mobile headset as a PC connected headset.You launch the streaming app client on the mobile headset.You launch the streaming app server on PC.You connect the PC and the mobile headset to the same Wi-fi network (a 5Ghz Wi-fi is advised).