HTC Improves VIVE Flow User Experience

HTC updates it latest wearable to improve day-to-day usability

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HTC Improves VIVE Flow User Experience
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Published: December 10, 2021

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Rory Greener

Taiwanese technology firm HTC announced on Friday a key update to its HTC Flow virtual reality (VR) headset that greatly improves the device’s functionality and user experience.

New features offer updated cross-platform functions, media playback and streaming capabilities, and overall hardware performance.

Additional upgrades to the Flow headset include:

  • Compatibility with smartphones using Samsung’s Exynos chipset.
  • Improved phone streaming with an increased 300 inch maximum screen size, streamed phone screens to imitate movie theatres, three background brightness settings, horizontal scrolling, and new customisable screen placement options.
  • Control over Passenger Mode, which users can switch on and off after leaving their play area. Passenger mode improves visual stability when in dark environments such as a moving vehicle.
  • New and improved start-up tutorials for first-time users.

Additionally, the patch notes contain several bug fixes that resolve minor issues with the HTC Flow including Wi-Fi connection problems, sign-in errors, and phone streaming failures.

Behind the Hardware

In November, HTC debuted the headset at its “Go with the Flow” online event. The device is part of the company’s larger vision of providing VR solutions to improve users health, wellness, and productivity.

HTC achieves this with a rich storefront that hosts a series of immersive applications for meditative experiences, media streaming, and multiplayer collaboration environments.

HTC is showcasing key applications such as Tripp VR, STYLY, and VIVE SYNC on the Flow storefront to help with the day-to-day management of an individual’s mental and physical health.

The lightweight mobile headset is only 189 grams and comes with 5G built-in, so that users can quickly download immersive VR applications. The HTC Flow also supports a 100-degree field of view, 3.2K resolution, 75 Hz refresh rate, Bluetooth connectivity, and 3D spatial audio.

The powerful specifications of the HTC Flow means that users can fully immerse themselves in many wellbeing VR applications, thanks to the device’s extremely high-quality image and audio output.

 

 

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