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HTC just announced updates to the Vive Cosmos, its sked of consumer-ready viscerous universality headsets. Except it's likewise testing a over-and-above streamlined mixed universality device codenamed "Project Proton." While the Proton is just a prototype, HTC shared concept images of its design, shedding some scintillant on the company's goals.

The Proton mooch seems functionally agnate to the upcoming Macrocosmos XR. Both are constitutional for mixed or augmented universality experiences, except vacillating Microsoft or Occultism Leap's mixed universality glasses, they use passthrough video instead of transparent waveguide lenses. (So basically, you're looking at a VR-style screen, except it shows you rustling video overlaid with viscerous elements.) Except where the Macrocosmos XR looks like the Macrocosmos VR headset, the Proton looks over-and-above like ski goggles or -- to put it glaringly -- very large sunglasses.

The visitor is revealing two contrasted visions for the product: one that's fully self-sufficing and one that offloads some components to a wired external pack, agnate to the Occultism Limited One's puck-like Lightpack. HTC CEO Yves Maitre offered an likeable reason for the closing design: it could suture 5G, and therapeutics users made it "massively clear" that they're old-maidish of a mooch with a 5G antenna. "We do believe that it's not reasonable to have a 5G antenna near the smart-ass of customers, so painfully this is something that we don't appetite to do," says Maitre.

HTC Proton ancestor mooch design — *Concept image of the Proton prototype.*

HTC originally said that the Macrocosmos nimbleness assignment with mobile phones. It's been mostly silent on that fondness lately, and Vive Americas manager Dan O'Brien says it's now a longer-term goal. "We're still oratorical on that idea. The levelheadedness isn't reservedly there," he says. "But we do visualize that we're making very gratifying strides in that direction." In the stretched run, Maitre wants 5G phones to reach the mooch due to the genuineness that users shouldn't have to buy a caseation of contrasted computing devices.

Maitre fatigued to The Verge that the Proton is still in development, so there aren't specs, a price, or uptown a final form factor. It currently uses a pointer-style controller, not fully tracked motion controllers like the Cosmos. HTC was distrustful narrowly the headset's screen, although it told Input that the Proton uses high-resolution "microdisplays."

We've seen a few glasses-style VR headsets, including a steampunky prototype from Panasonic. Over-and-above companies, like Varjo, have reworked a VR mooch into a high-resolution AR system. HTC is compilation the two and offering the full-blooded of its big VR brand. We had mixed results with the Cosmos, except the Vive Pro is still a go-to high-end headset. Microsoft and Occultism Limited have likewise set a ejaculatory standard for waveguide-style AR glasses, and a passthrough design avoids putting HTC in dyed-in-the-wool concours with them.

Beyond any practical value, Maitre says the Proton is testimonial that HTC reservedly cares narrowly mixed reality. "We appetite to move one day to [normal-looking] glasses, and it is a journey," he says. "We just appetite to slickness that we are committed to the journey, that we are investing against this journey, and we have a first product."