HTC's most advanced VR headset, the Vive Pro Eye with built-in eye tracking, is now available in North America.
VR headset
It was announced at CES in January and was first launched in China and Europe. With a price of 1,599 dollars, the Vive Pro Eye doubles the price of the HTC Vive Pro, which was launched in 2018.
Sure it is an expensive VR headset and raises an obvious question:
"Why would anyone buy the Vive Pro Eye through the Wireless Oculus Quest, which starts at $ 399?"
It is not really fair to compare the HTC Vive Pro Eye with the Oculus Quest. They are two different kinds of VR headsets.
Live Pro Eye
It has a higher resolution and eye tracking technology, requires a powerful PC and needs "Base stations" Additional for body-scale monitoring of the room.
Meanwhile, Oculus Quest is a completely wireless headset that works with a mobile processor and has weaker graphics.
The comparison
It will be done, and for most people, buying a Live Pro Eye makes no sense. Not only are headphones expensive, but the configuration to immerse yourself in virtual reality is complicated. The Quest, however, is a much simpler and more intuitive VR configuration.
You want the best VR headset that HTC sells
The Live Pro Eye looks pretty solid. The headset has a resolution of 2,880 x 1,600 (1,440 x 1,600 per eye) and the built-in eye tracking has the potential to do things that other VR headphones cannot, such as "Create more expressive avatars for immersive virtual interactions in meetings and collaboration" and "tools capture user feedback in real time through heat mapping and eye tracking to obtain information about user behavior and processes of decision “, according to HTC.
When we tested the Vive Pro Eye at CES, my colleague Karissa Bell was impressed by VR headphones.
She said the "gaze-oriented menu navigation" that is controlled with the eyes "It worked almost as expected, although it was only available with game menus."
further
Eye tracking could provide people with disabilities with an alternative way of controlling things in virtual reality if they cannot use the standard Vive manual controllers.
Like all PC-based VRs, the HTC Vive Pro Eye is for enthusiasts who invest heavily in long-term VR. It is possible that its cutting-edge features never become the mainstream, but that's fine because HTC seems to be courting more and more users of virtual reality and the company instead of the average consumers. For these first users, being the first to experience the latest VR technology is worth the higher cost.
