On HTC’s Facebook page today the company showed off the new design for the upcoming HTC Vive Cosmos.
Vive Cosmos is HTC’s next consumer focused PC VR headset. It was first announced and shown at CES 2019 in January, but HTC still hasn’t given details on specs or pricing.
The previous design.
At the time it had four tracking cameras- two on the front (facing forwards) and two on the side (facing outwards). The new design retains these cameras, but adds two more- one on the top edge (facing upwards) and one on the bottom edge (facing downwards).
With other inside-out tracked headsets, controller tracking is lost when the user brings the controller close to and under the headset. The new bottom camera would likely help with this case, which could make the Cosmos more suitable for shooter games with scoped rifles. Onward recently released a ‘Virtual Gunstock Mode’ to work around this limitation in the Oculus Rift S and Windows MR headsets.
The top camera would fix the upwards deadspot of the original Cosmos design and Windows MR headsets. A top camera is also used on the Oculus Rift S, and the Oculus Quest’s top corner cameras can see upwards.
During the teaser, HTC showed that the front plate with the two new cameras could be detached. While this could indicate that this is an optional upgrade and not standard, the wording of the video’s description seems to indicate this is the new standard design:
Introducing the HTC VIVE COSMOS, fresh off the line. We’re excited to show you COSMOS, or as we affectionally named it, D120165. Today is the first look at the new design.
Vive Cosmos is slated to launch in Q3 of this year. We’ve reached out to HTC for clarification on whether the two new cameras will be a standard part of Cosmos.
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