FEBRUARY 2019 PCWorld 29

HTC reveals two VR headsets,

the untethered Vive Cosmos

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Only one of them seems worth your attention, though. BY HAYDEN DINGMAN

A

few months back we went to

look at HTC’s new Vive Focus

(go.pcworld.com/f0cs), a

clunky standalone headset that

stumbled through all the demos we tried. It

didn’t impress us much, to say the least—and

that was a shame, because HTC needs

something to counter Oculus’s upcoming

standalone Quest headset (go.pcworld.com/

qest). Much as we love PCs here at PCWorld,

the Quest’s slick wireless VR is impressive

enough that we’ve already hypothesized it

“could be the VR headset moving forward.”

Luckily HTC gets a second try. At CES,

HTC hosted a small press conference that

revealed multiple new pieces of hardware:

The Vive Cosmos and Vive Pro Eye. Details on

both were skimpy, but perhaps HTC’s finally

landed upon a proper Oculus Quest

competitor.

IMAGE: HTC