HTC Announces Portable VIVE Flow Immersive VR Glasses

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HTC today announced the VIVE Flow, a pair of portable, bug-eyed VR glasses that allows users to watch TV and movies on a cinema-sized VR screen, exercise their minds with brain training apps, collaborate with colleagues and friends, and more. The glasses offer a 100-degree field of view, sharp 3.2K resolution, smooth 75 Hz refresh rate, 3D spatial audio, and even an active cooling system that vents heat out of the eye chamber for improved comfort. HTC’s VIVE Flow will be available in November for $499 at the official VIVE store, as well as retailers around the world.









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Designed to fit into your life easily, VIVE Flow weighs about the same as a chocolate bar at just 189g. Its dual-hinge design and soft face gasket allow it to fold down into a compact footprint for effortless portability. VIVE Flow’s unique hinge is designed to fit...
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Read a review and the lack of the head strap causes stability issues, like the glasses move around or pop off your head. Also they "saved" all the weight by moving the battery to an external battery pack, which you have to be plugged into to use. Not cordless/wireless. And it doesn't include any hand controls, you're supposed to use your phone as a controller ???

And last... why make them "look" like AR glasses when they clearly aren't? Confused marketing I guess?
 
As usual, interesting wearable but due to so many compromises, it will not do well until another company excels at this.
 
Those thing slook like something out of Blade Runner, or a Front 242 music video :p
 
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