Even the most rudimentary experiences require some serious might as the software effectively needs to run twice simultaneously to create the VR effect, once for each eye. Of course, you must also have a PC good enough to run the VR software. And it's still tethered to the PC, although that's a necessary evil if you want the very best visual experience. The eye-tracking of the Vive Pro Eye is absent too. The controllers don't have the finger-tracking of Valve's own Index, nor the improved battery life found in the new HTC Focus 3 controllers. The headset doesn't have built-in cameras for tracking, unlike the HTC Vive Focus 3 which has 4. As well as all the software available through VivePort and Steam VR.Īs for an overview of the cons, that's easiest to explain by pointing to the features that the HTC Vive Pro 2 doesn't have.

This means peripherals such as the Wireless Adapter, Vive Tracker 3.0 and the Facial Tracker will work just fine. I'll go into detail about the pros and cons of this in my final verdict below, but the main pro is that it's fully backward compatible. This negates you from having to take your headset on and off frequently, which I find reduces issues like fogging.Įverything else in the headset is older technology already available. It's much easier to activate passthrough so you can see the real world without taking off your headset, as well as remotely view and interact with your desktop. There are front-facing cameras too, and combined with some improvements to the Steam VR interface, do make for a much more user-friendly experience. On the sensor-front, there's a G-sensor, gyroscope, proximity sensor and IPD sensor all funnelled through SteamVR Tracking V2.0. As I will go into below, this does a decent job, relatively, of keeping the minimum PC specifications down.Įlsewhere in the headset you'll find the same built-in high-res headphones and integrated dual microphones. To better handle the added volume of data that comes with being able to enjoy visuals in greater detail, the HTC Vive Pro 2 utilises Display Stream Compression.

Those 2.5K displays are fast-switch, real RGB sub-pixel, dual-stacked LCD screens too. The 5K display (made of 2 x 2.5K displays), 120Hz refresh rate and 120-degree field-of-view is as good as it gets in 2021. The legacy of the HTC Vive headset demands quality and the HTC Vive Pro 2 steps up.

Display Stream Compression keeps minimum specs competitive.

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