HTC has been teasing its subsequent VR headset over the previous couple of weeks, displaying off bits of the system at a time which the corporate guarantees will probably be “one thing huge… we imply small.” Now it seems the design and among the specs have been leaked, with the small print gathered courtesy of VR analyst and YouTuber Brad Lynch.
Data surrounding the headset—nonetheless anonymous on the time of this writing—was gathered by Lynch from sources “principally within the provide chain,” he says. Lynch dubs the system the ‘Flowcus’ for its obvious coupling of the sunshine and slim form-factor of Vive Stream and the standalone capabilities of Vive Focus.
Pictures of the headset featured in Lynch’s 10-minute video (embedded beneath) are mentioned to be renderings based mostly on pictures seen by Lynch, one thing he says was achieved to retain the anonymity of the leak’s supply, as leaked pictures apparently contained figuring out markers.
The headset is alleged to include 4 B&W monitoring cameras and one RGB digital camera for passthrough. Controllers are supposedly the identical because the these provided with Vive Focus 3.
The headset can also be mentioned to incorporate a detachable facial interface, which presumably would enable for simply cleansing. That profile view additionally illustrates the system’s slim and light-weight design.
And that’s apparently achieved by pancake lenses, that are slowly changing into the trade commonplace for VR headsets, with Meta Quest Professional and Pico 4 additionally integrating them.
Lynch says the headset contains twin 1,920×1,920 LCDs, closed at as much as 120hz. Mechanical IPD changes are additionally current, Lynch says.
Beneath that facial interface can also be reportedly a USB-C port, which could possibly be used for tacking on an eye-tracking module.
One of many distinctive bits about HTC’s alleged upcoming headset is its modularity; that port connection on the arm of the headstrap is meant to permit the headset to enter a ‘glasses mode’ by permitting you to disconnect the headstrap/battery and use it extra like a Vive Stream for informal viewing. Lynch alleges there’s additionally the likelihood the USB-C port could also be able to connecting to a PC.
When in ‘glasses mode’, the arms are additionally mentioned to fold up for simpler storage, making Lynch’s ‘Flowcus’ moniker much more apt.
As a real standalone system, the headset is alleged to incorporate a chipset “sooner than the [Snapdragon XR2] in Quest 2,” Lynch says, additionally speculating it might be the upcoming Snapdragon XR2 Gen. 2, making it doubtlessly the primary such system to take action.
Offered that is the consumer-focused system it’s chalked as much as be—and coming from the beleaguered HTC—we wouldn’t count on a low value placing it in competitors with Quest 2 or Pico 4. You possibly can try Lynch’s 10-minute video on the beneath, which incorporates extra photographs of the headset and extra hypothesis of its supposed options.