Every time you put on the headphones, they adjust to equalize the interpupillary distance. Anyone who has ever gotten a prescription for glasses is familiar with this process. If the lenses are not aligned with the distance between your eyes, you can end up looking through the edges of the lenses and getting a much more distorted view. HTC combats this with motorized lenses and internal eye tracking that detects how far apart your eyes are and physically moves the lenses to the appropriate distance.
It’s a useful feature, I wish it didn’t do this every time I put the headphones on. Fortunately, you can disable this in the system settings, but I quickly found it irritating if I took off the headphones for just a second (usually to deal with some detail of the setup process for some app or another) only to have the headphones forgotten for a while. complete. where my eyes are the moment I put it back on. I understand that the idea is to adjust settings for different users, but perhaps a good middle ground would be to ask users if they want to reset each time or offer a shortcut button.
It also bothered me how quickly the lenses fogged up. The foam on the headphones was not particularly breathable and the lenses fogged up in a matter of seconds. It would level out over time as the earbuds warmed up, but it’s still annoying. These are the types of minor flaws you’d be tempted to overlook in a more affordable headset, but for a device that starts at $1,000, they’re hard to overlook.
Immersion and Control
In line with competitors such as 3S meta searchand Apple Vision ProVive Focus Vision is designed to be a mixed reality headset. The pass-through view is solid enough to see your surroundings and not hit anything, although the video is still grainy and washed out. I also tried to walk a few steps to my refrigerator and as I did, there is fair Enough delay to make you feel disoriented.
HTC’s controllers are similar to those on the Meta Quest 3, with a few buttons, a couple of triggers, and full motion tracking. It also supports manual tracking, which in my experience worked quite well, although it can sometimes be a little frustrating to get the cursor to click the right buttons with just your fingers.