![]() ![]() While the 6DoF headset (which allows moving around and leaning forward like most other VR headsets do, using its onboard cameras) encourages you to stand up and walk around within some premade safety boundaries, the controller sort of permanently floats around in front of you no matter where you are holding the phone on your person.ĬNET's Russell Holly got to try the hardware in person in New York. You can point with your phone and tap the top part of your screen to select something. Some parts of the phone can be seen while in VR: There's a set of button zones on the screen, for instance. Russell Holly/CNET Trying the Flow in person: Phone-connected VR revisitedĪ Vive app on the phone connects with the headset and turns the phone into a sort of laser pointer, or a three-degrees-of-freedom controller much like earlier VR headsets like the Oculus Go and Google Daydream View used. In a lot of ways, the headset looks like another example of the type of phone-driven smart glasses Qualcomm's been promising for over a year. HTC Vive America head Dan O'Brien didn't confirm what chipset was in the Flow, but it may not have the same Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip as the Quest 2 and Vive Focus 3 do. Specifically, a certain range of compatible Android phones, as there's currently no support for iOS. ![]() Instead, the Flow uses your phone to navigate. But there are no controllers included with the Vive Flow, and it doesn't support hand tracking. The 100-degree field of view of the lenses and the 3.2K resolution display with a 75Hz refresh rate work with HTC's Viveport user interface, much like its other VR headsets, and will work with about 50 apps at launch. The glasses also lack any interpupillary distance adjustment (a common feature on other VR headsets), so if your eyes are a little closer or farther apart than what is considered average you might feel eyestrain during extended use. But these glasses only work up to a -6 prescription any more, you're out of luck. You could hand this headset to five people with five different prescriptions and a small adjustment would make the display perfectly clear for all of them in moments. These diopter dials turn to match your prescription, which means no more ordering separate lens inserts or trying to stuff your glasses into a headset as long as your prescription is within this threshold. When you have the Vive Flow glasses on your face, there's a set of dials over the lenses counting from zero to six. They can be tethered via USB-C, or content can be streamed wirelessly over a local connection.īut one of its wildest features is that prescription-adjusting diopter tech. Unlike stand-alone VR headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 or Vive Focus 3, these glasses are phone-connected, and require that phone to power apps and experiences. ![]()
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