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HTC Cancels U.S. Release of a Google Daydream VR Headset, Reveals Own Standalone Headset

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday November 18 2017, @12:56PM   
from the just-daydreaming dept.

takyon writes:

HTC will not widely commercialize a planned Google Daydream headset, but released more details about the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with integrated positional tracking:

HTC has officially revealed the Vive Focus, its all-in-one VR headset. As previously announced, the Vive Focus runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip and uses inside-out positional tracking. It should be the first standalone six-degrees-of-freedom VR headset to see release, though HTC isn't saying exactly when it'll be available.

[...] HTC has only announced plans for the Vive Focus in China just yet, and even then there aren't any details on pricing or a release date. If you were holding out for that Vive-branded standalone Google Daydream headset, meanwhile, there's bad news — HTC and Google have cancelled their plans to bring it to the US.

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• Moron Scum (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:29PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:29PM (#598649) Homepage

  It won't be shit.

  All armies in question are H1-B scum. They're too busy doing things that H1-B scum do, namely sucking at programming. AR/VR are actually simple things to do when you have armies of programmers, but they're too busy fighting legal battles and having whites fix H1-B hires' Java-monkey mistakes.

  You made your beds, now sleep in them.

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