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This video is what convinced me to buy these trackers! Been using them for a little over a week now and I do not regret my purchase one bit!

People hate on the Vive Focus Vision, but it's still a baller headset. I don't like the price, but it's got good features That being said, I love the Vive XR Elite and have been using the ABSOLUTE SHIT out of mine

Cause the other vr headsets are sold as full kits too

This sounds pretty good but i'm definitely not sidegrading my quest pro when the deckard is around the corner *copium*

ya worlds most fragile headset vive xr, the arm gonna brake.

hellow Jacobfov i wood like two give you a heeds up info bast on the htc vive er eliteth-cam.com/video/mpagl6OF2Js/w-d-xo.html wen going two this websit two youtube you can get the upgrade for free how ever if you are not in eney part of us this dos not aply two you 1 eg uk also heeds up if you ask this in there you tube the will block your comets also if you do a revew you will a dmca take done if you have a low view a cont. when doing a review dis conting that 1 thing i dont like is the magnetes on the fase

I don't understand the hate for the focus vision. Using it for the first time tonight with pcvr, the only annoyance I had was that it sometimes required you to fire up the controller it came with when it fell asleep after a 15 min break to get past the menu and back into steam. Apart from that the face and eye tracking worked, not as good as the pro eye mind you. The sweet spot was small yeah and the god rays were about as meh as the vive pro 2.... But apart from that it did what I wanted which was face and eye tracking.

I love seeing new cheaper tracking options MONTHS later and now they're stuck being sold out for the rest of my life!

oled cost more

The Hp Reverb G2 is Not 1K it’s half that 😭

7:54 blud has a 4090 owo

Still love ur new avi smmmm

I really appreciate your point of view. A lot of headset reviews are from the perspective of general VR use and "does it just work" I feel like this take was giving a nod to those things but more for those that can tinker and like pcvr. Appreciated

Got vr xr elite on day one it was really bad

Is it just me? Or does this dragon sound like Styropyro? It's....crazy, I can't shake the idea. lol.

When Meta releases the OS for other headsets this is going to be a great headset to have.

this made me appreciate my pico 4 even more cuz holy shit this htc headset hasnt gotten much better it seems. On pico side they have fixed streaming assistant(its now called pico connect) and its fairly close to VD in terms of quality now. Standalone has now quite lot of popular games, not as good as quest but still FAR better than htc💀. And they also made cheap as hell fbt trackers that are pretty good with ir drift correction.

You could prob just do some quick edits in cad and 3D print a facial gasket for it. 🤔

HTC has really crumbled compared to what they used to be! I'd love to see a real comback from them!

Well, I was looking for a replacement route for a headset that's capable of facial tracking. Guess the elite is out of the ring

Or I can save up my money for the 600 dollar (not including tax) Vive Ultimate Trackers.

Ok $300 for this is a crazy deal I should look at ebay more often

Also the selling point of the XR is it’s lightweight compact design, it’s so much more portable then any standalones.

OMG FINALLY!!

I've owed both preordered XR Elite and Vive Focus Vision headsets. Ended up returning both for a refund because I felt that my now 2yo Quest Pro/rtx4090 is still better for PCVR, esp with flight/racing sims. I really liked the VFV DisplayPort streaming kit, but the headset was let down by its poor fresnel lens and a very small vertical FOV. Hopefully in the near future Vive will release a VFV2 with pancake lens and better screens (QLED with local dimming or maybe micro-oled), plus a more modern chip (at least as good or better than the Q3's Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chip. Anyway, I'm glad you're happy with your $360 XR Elite. Since I now own both a QPro and Q3/512Gb, I wouldn't consider getting another XR Elite, even if it were offered to me for free, lol!

Where did you get it for that price?

Jacobbbbb!!!!!

why are the controller so big? lol

Vive headsets feel so uncomfortable

I love your thumbnails!

Hard to justify spending 1300 on something you could get for 300$ or less with meta, but with only a few drawbacks

Not a bad headset for htc. If they were to make something like this but better, i'd totally switch out of my quest 3 to a htc headset

Wish more headsets had the ability to bypass the battery, much nicer than wearing out the battery, by technically constantly charging it using it for wired pcvr.

i came here to say, the namco museum remix/megamix music immediately makes you goated

I use their ultimate trackers daily, but wow it's so bad I hate it. One always tracks differently than the other 2, random disconnects and sometimes it just doesn't track. I had their XR Elite too, returned it, I HATED the controllers, my touch sensors were defective, the displays had dead pixels, fov and resolution is worse than the quest 3, only good thing about it is the size and weight and that's literally it. The glasses mode rubber feet adhesive melted off and got in my hair within a few days, that's why they sold packs of them! I hate HTC and will never buy a product from them again, many of my casual consumer friends agree, including the tech nerd ones like me. I am buying Diver X contact gloves 2, and diver X and shiftall trackers combination. Metas customer service is industry leading for being the worst in the business, HTC wasn't much better, I had to go to their discord to explain I had to return 3 of my 6 trackers because at the time it was like 2 months sitting on my shelf last the return period and on the website it didn't mention it maxed out at 5 trackers and it didn't work on anything other than HTCs HMDs so they were paper weights for awhile. The software back at launch was significantly worse, now the trackers just suck but at least the software isn't is trash, I felt like at least 2 of my pre-order trackers were just straight up defective too. HTC quality control is even worse than Pimax.

Thanks for doing a more up to date review on this. I wasn't planning on getting it, but was always curious if they ever improved it with updates. I want HTC to do well, but they keep repeatedly rushing products out that feel like a beta tests and for what they're charging, their headsets aren't really worth it for most people.

Everything you mentioned has me nodding like a bobblehead in 110% agreement 😂 Especially the 30watt issue (currently dealing with their lacklustre 'tech support' team now regarding power delivery issues). But my reasoning for getting the XRE was its smol AF (small enough for carry-on and not take up so much space), diopters so I can actually see, its flexibility for standalone and PCVR and the glasses mode (i almost never used the battery cradle... Before my temple arm snapped... More on that in a moment). I think its a good little kit but the pricepointe killed it in my opinion. Also, while the diopters are great for us blind folk lol they actually make the experience (FOV) a little worse. Look too far out of the 'sweet spot' and the secondary lense causes extreme blurr. Regarding their choice to iterate the Focus series, I think they might leapfrog it, so now that the Focus has had an iteration, 2025 might be when the XR series gets an interaction, meaning the next one may not be until 2027. Just my hypothesis based on how other brands iterate their series lines.

Hey, chiming in as an owner of a Zenbook Duo. Vive hub straight up doesn't work with it. Like at all. I downloaded it and it kept telling me my laptop was either under-powered or that I had too many monitors connected even if I disabled the secondary display. I do hope I can get the headset working with virtual desktop or ALVR, though I have yet to try this. My Zenbook as a 3050 ti, so I very much doubt it's a processing power issue. Also great vid as always Jacob!

holy yap

Eyy! A review of the same headset i have from my fav derg! Its about bloody time! :D

Cool you were able to make it work with the printed interface. I like the diopter dials. A lot of people are interested in this headset for the face/eye tracking add-on, but I heard it makes the FOV even worse.

Not available in my country. Guess im still building my own 😕

It’s so blurry tho for me

How do I punch the block and then it breaks on 1.19.2?

is the actual tracking of these any good? or are they worse than slime?

That video doesn't make sense The Kit includes 2 Basestations, 2 Controller and the Headset + Cable You say the VR Headset costs 500$ and then 1000$ Ofcourse the kit costs 1000$ if it includes the 300$ controller and two 320$ Basestations

Lmao somatic is completely sold out of V2 with nothing indicating when they’ll be in stock or when the V3 trackers will come out.

What we seem to need is a combo of lens and display that work together to eliminate the limitations of both lens and display. I wonder when that will be coming.

Thankie Jakie, my Somatics are charging in a cool stack as we speak

Can you do a tutorial on how you build it? :p