HTC launches pre-order Wireless Kit for Vive Virtual Reality Helmet

HTC, the manufacturer of the HTC Vive virtual reality helmet, launches a pre-order wireless Wireless Kit that can be installed on existing helmets. Lovers of virtual reality "freedom from wires" will cost $ 220. True order can be made only in the Chinese segment Vive .

The manufacturer of the wireless adapter is TPCAST, which developed the transmitter as part of the Vive X program.

Vive X is a project of HTC, in which it invested about $ 100 million in BP start-ups in order to provide a technological breakthrough in this direction. The program started in the spring of this year and, apparently, has already borne fruit.

In September of this year, we talked about another development of wireless VR-helmets by the startup Quark VR. Unlike TPCAST, their work was aimed at all existing helmets, including the Vive competitors in the face of Oculus Rift, Playstation VR and others.
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Technical specifications HTC does not disclose. A limited number of Wireless Kit-kits will also be sold, which can be regarded as the next stage of alpha testing of the new technology. It is likely that the novelty uses a video stream optimization system to reduce the load on the wireless channel, which cannot boast of high bandwidth against the background of the cable.

Creating a Wireless Kit was only a matter of time. A heap of wires hampering the movement and restricting the user in his actions, from the very beginning seemed like a relic of early prototypes, which, unfortunately, lived to the stage of extensive sales.

All manufacturers, without exception, noted the difficulty of creating a stably operating device that would be able to provide a wireless connection and power to the VR helmet of any manufacturer. HTC, which some time ago was considered the “second” company after its main competitor and the oldest player in the market, Oculus Rift, makes the first steps towards wireless BP headsets.