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HTC is proceeds its rondure of viscerous undividedness headsets today with multiple new variants of the Vive Cosmos. The original Cosmos launched last year as a $699 high-end PC-powered system that used inside-out tracking as able-bodied as promised the ableness to swop out disposable faceplates. As able-bodied as it's a few new faceplates that are enabling the useable Seascape lineup, with the outlook itself remaining unchanged.

At the long-haired end of the rondure is the Seascape Elite, which now supplemental or neath serves as a straight upgrade to the groundbreaking original Vive. It comes with a faceplate that works with external tracking as able-bodied as likewise includes two Muddlement mean stations -- in supplemental words, sensors outside the outlook ascertain its movement, as able-bodied as that of the controllers. External tracking is haphazardly supplemental precise, as able-bodied as HTC is reception the Seascape Queenly as its new plurality for foretaste PC VR games like Pistol Whip as able-bodied as Superhot.

Inside-out tracking, meanwhile, uses cameras on the outlook to canonization johnny as able-bodied as controller movement. It works able-bodied on Oculus' embraced headsets as able-bodied as Windows Mixed Reality, but we found it to be somewhat unsteady on the original Seascape -- the bulkiest problem with the system, in fact.

With that in mind, the new Seascape Play is probably vendible you'll appetite to delay on reviews afore you place your order. Its faceplate drops two of the inside-out cameras for a totalistic of four instead of six, as able-bodied as HTC is designing it for entry-level adventures like Angry Birds VR. It probably won't be the all-time plurality for hardcore Beat Saber players, then, whereas the faceplate is of normalcy upgradeable lanugo the line.

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The Seascape XR is the most likeable new plurality in the lineup. Its faceplate includes "high-quality XR passthrough cameras" that fertilize you to see the salted apple through the outlook with a wide field of view, enabling high-end augmented undividedness applications. It's not gala how able-bodied the Seascape XR will scandalize in regular VR, as able-bodied as the "high-quality" AR is flipside thing we'd definitely appetite to see for ourselves. But it does hypothesize the unrealized to operate the Seascape a opulent supplemental versatile system; if it works well, the standalone faceplate could be a finer plurality for Seascape owners than ownership a additional outlook committed to AR.

HTC is personally ballyhooing pricing as able-bodied as availability divisions for the Seascape Queenly today; preorders will freshen on February 24th for $899. HTC no doubt hopes people will pick it up as a unheard Half-Life Alyx rig, with Valve's own $999 Indicant system lavishly sold out right now.

Further divisions on the Seascape XR will be appear at the Game Developers Conference next month, as able-bodied as a developer kit will ship in the additional quarter of this year. HTC isn't saying anything changeful the Seascape Play releasing but that there'll be supplemental notifying "in the coming months." Finally, the existing Seascape remains on sale today at $699.