During an online launch event today, HTC unveiled its new VR headset, the VIVE Flow. While some details leaked online earlier this week, we now have official details of the product. Unlike the company's previous consumer products, the VIVE Flow will not require a beefy PC to work with as it has been designed with portability in mind. Instead, you use a power bank to supply its juice and can pair with an Android phone over Bluetooth, with the latter working as a controller. With Android devices that support HDCP 2.2, users can mirror their phone's content but it is mainly advertised for dedicated wellness apps, some light gaming and to create a distraction-free VR workspace.

Below are some use cases for the device:

• Meditation 2.0 with apps like TRIPP, or taking a scenic, immersive drive down Route 66 with MyndVR’s original series: A Road to Remember
• Watching TV or movies on their own personal, cinema-sized VR screen
• Exercising their minds with brain training apps
• Collaborating and socializing with colleagues and friends on VIVE Sync

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Specs-wise, the Flow is also HTC's lightest VR headset yet, weighing at 189g. It packs a 100-degree field of view allowing HD quality content, 3.2K resolution, 75 Hz refresh rate. The headset also has built-in diopter dials, speakers pump out crisp as well as noise- and echo-canceling mics. For improved comfort, the VIVE flow also integrates an "active cooling system" that is said to pull warm air away from the user's face.

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The HTC VIVE Flow will retail for £499, with pre-orders starting today, October 14th, globally while open sales begin in November. Anyone pre-ordering will receive the official VIVE Flow carry case and a gift bundle of 7 pieces of content. HTC also announced a a special Viveport subscription plan to accompany the VIVE Flow launch. For £5.29 per month, it provides subscribers with unlimited access to a wide range of immersive apps covering well-being, brain training, productivity, light gaming, and exclusive content like a Lo-Fi room designed to look and feel like a cosy café.

More details about the HTC VIVE Flow and pre-order link can be found on the official website linked below.

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HTC VIVE Flow Official Website

 

[James_]

watch me wear these while walking down the street, i will get laughed at constantly and that is a guarantee

then again i wouldn't be able to see where i'm going so

 

[Dr_Faustus]

About goddamn time.

 

[Aheago]

So dumb

Just a glorified Google cardboard or that crappy Samsung phone VR that was around for a Minute

 

[diggeloid]

This is...weird as fuck. HTC must be in some real trouble if they're launching products like this.

 

[Vila_]

Although it's very cool and stuff, this is just one of those cheap phone VR googles with extra bells & whistles

 

[Deleted member 388531]

wtf is HTC smoking? this is gonna sell like absolute crap

 

[Deleted member 532471]

this woman has some kind of issues with plants
she has like a million house plants, she lives in the middle of a freaking forest YET she puts the damn thing on to see ANOTHER forest, AND IN FREAKING 600AD FOR SOME REASON

 

[Deleted member 532471]

wtf is HTC smoking? this is gonna sell like absolute crap

they used so many tropes from marketing to women that I think this is going to work to some degree.

 

[BeanMKW]

my first thought was that it was glasses lmao

 

[Delerious]

The the human fly memes commence!

 

[Hanafuda]

So for non-gamers who just want some depth perception titties in their face, this is the porn Vive.

I can see where this might sell like crazy.

 

[BeanMKW]

So for non-gamers who just want some depth perception titties in their face, this is the porn Vive.

I can see where this might sell like crazy.

*shivers*

 

[Deleted member 323844]

Meditation, first world problems.

 

[Hanafuda]

*shivers*

You know it's true.

 

[BeanMKW]

You know it's true.

i sure wish it wasnt though

 

[Mama Looigi]

This was cool… until I saw the price

 

[TheZander]

VR kinda undersells some of the features. It should show the people that really benefit from having virtual living rooms. Crack dens for one, No passed out weirdos, broken TV screens, torn and burnt carpet but they never show that kind of contrast that VR can make.

 

[ploggy]

Looking at that headset reminds me I really need to play Jet Set Radio again

 

[Bladexdsl]

VR is that gimmick still around?