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VR Attraction Zero Latency Ditches Backpack PCs in Favor of Vive Focus 3 & Wireless Rendering

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Zero Latency, one of the longest running VR attractions in the out-of-home VR space, is dropping the backpack PCs that were once the backbone of the platform. Image courtesy Zero Latency. The company says it’s streaming over a local Wi-Fi 6E network which purportedly offers lower latency than prior Wi-Fi revisions.

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HTC Vive Focus 3 Facial & Eye Trackers Revealed

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HTC Vive this week unveiled two new accessories for the Vive Focus 3 that introduce both facial and eye tracking support to the all-in-one VR headset. A 60Hz tracking rate means little to no latency between your voice and the mouth movements of your in-game avatar. Image Credit: HTC.

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HTC Promises Less Than 7ms Latency For Intel’s Wireless Vive

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Wired VR headsets have barely noticeable motion-to-photon latency. Introducing wireless add-on kits for these devices threatens to risk increasing these latency times, however. As we reported back in January , HTC is partnering with Intel to create one of these wireless solutions, named WiGig.

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Hands-on: Vive Wireless Adapter Debuts With Robust Connection but Latency Too

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Revealed this week at CES 2018, HTC has announced their own Vive Wireless Adapter which promises to break the tether on the Vive and Vive Pro. One year after announcing their intent to create a wireless adapter in collaboration with Intel at CES 2017, HTC revealed the Vive Wireless Adapter this week at CES 2018. Photo by Road to VR.

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Hands-On: Zero Latency Sees Big Improvements With New Wireless System

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Just a few weeks ago Zero Latency announced some upgrades which include ditching the heavy backpacks and opting for a new system that wirelessly streams content to headsets from on-site PCs. The tracking was also noticeably improved and seemed less glitchy than my previous Zero Latency sessions a few years ago. .

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HTC Announces Face-tracker for Vive Pro and Vive Tracker 3.0, Launching This Month for $130

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HTC today announced two new VR accessories: a consumer version of its face-tracker and a new version of the Vive Tracker which is said to bring a large jump in battery life alongside being smaller. Image courtesy HTC. HTC’s new Vive Facial Tracker is a face-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro headset. .”

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Zero Latency Replaces Backpack PCs With Streaming To Vive Focus 3

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Location based VR company Zero Latency is getting rid of the backpacks. Zero Latency’s existing offering uses a HP Reverb headset connected to heavy backpack PCs worn by each user. Vive Focus 3 is HTC’s standalone VR headset, designed for businesses, priced at $1299. Wi-Fi 6E support was added in a recent Focus 3 update.

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