At CES2023, HTC announced a new headset, the Vive XR Elite. Here's what I learned after trying it out myself.
Check out our complete coverage of CES 2023 live from Las Vegas HTC has a new flagship headset, and this time, it’s about more than just VR. Like the Meta Quest Pro, the HTC Vive XR Elite is made to do AR just as well as it does VR.
As you probably know, the Vive XR Elite comes with the ability to remove the battery cradle on the back, which dramatically reduces the weight of the headset. It’s also a lot less comfortable this way. Disconnecting the cradle is fairly easy, but using it in “glasses mode” does require employing the end tips, which are meant to wrap around the side of your head.
Passthrough still needs work In many ways, the Vive XR Elite is a direct evolution of HTC’s headsets that came before. It takes the VR capabilities of the Vive Focus 3 and mixes it with the lightweight construction and comfort of the Vive Flow. So, it’s really the XR, or extended reality, capability that distinguishes this new headset from the rest.
This is all coming from someone who hasn’t yet used the Quest Pro or similar device, so I don’t have a great idea of how exactly the Vive XR Elite compares. That aside, I didn’t get the sense that I could just live my normal life , and occasionally pop in digital elements. These aren’t AR glasses. If anything, the XR elements feel like more of an add-on to VR than the other way around.
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