CES 2019: New HTC Vive Pro Eye and Vive Cosmos
The CES 2019 conference in Las Vegas pleased with announcements from HTC, which brought new VR gadgets - Vive Pro Eye with eye tracking and a standalone helmet Vive Cosmos. In addition, the developer introduced the Viveport Infinity subscription, which for $9 per month will provide unlimited access to a huge collection of VR content.
By tracking the direction of the user's gaze, Vive Pro Eye uses selective image rendering. Simply put, the technology creates clear and realistic objects only where a person is looking, and outside this zone, the picture is blurred. This requires many times less computing resources for rendering the scene and allows you to draw a high-quality virtual world.
The main features of the helmet do not differ from the Vive Pro: two AMOLED displays with a resolution of 1440 × 1600 each and a refresh rate of 90 Hz, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a proximity sensor, an IPD lens for individual adjustment to the level of vision, USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 4.2. The cost of Vive Pro Eye remained unknown, the helmet will appear on sale until the second quarter of 2019.
Vive Cosmos is a wireless VR headset that can be connected to both a PC and an iOS or Android smartphone. It became the first HTC device to work on the Vive Reality System, the main principles of which are ease of use for any customer. Cosmos is incredibly easy to set up, set up and activate.
Four cameras are responsible for tracking the location and walls in space: two on the front panel and one on the sides. There is active cooling, modified Vive controllers and manual lens distance adjustment. The cost of the device also remained unknown.