HTC Vive Wrist Tracker for Focus 3 and XR Elite

Ok so everyone will have different opinions for 1 and like anything you will really have to try things yourself. Now Ive had almost every headset, from Pimax 8kX to original Vive, Cosmos, Rift S and now focus 3, plus I have a quest 2. Its nice to have a headset wireless, that is my main goal, and why I sold my Pimax. Now for the $1300 price tag, im not seeing the benefits over another wireless like a quest 2, now for Arcade Business then Yes, specially for the super wide room scale. As with other Vive Fresnel lens, they give off to much glare, the sweet spots are to small. The resolution is awesome, the tracking is on par, Hor FOV is better as well, Vert FOV is fine, between quest 2 and this, you definitely feel the difference wide. Lack of a extra battery extension sucks, you can swap one out but then the headset shuts down. If this was like $600 then it would be an awesome upgrade for sure but not for $1K plus Naaaaa. not with the glare you get and blurry-ness when not in the small sweet spot. In Pistol Whip, awesome, Half life ehhh, . Mine will prob be going back after a few more days.

Bought this despite the previous intermittent reviews of the headset arriving dead/won’t turn on. Happened to me, too. Contacted Amazon customer service for a replacement, they said talk to HTC. After talking with HTC, they said Amazon needs to issue the exchange. Talked with Amazon again, explaining the situation, and they agreed and said they’d email me a return label and options for the replacement. It’s been days, still no email, no return label. Frustrated.

I thought it had to be the best VR headset in the market for 1400 USD.... but I was wrong, when I got it took three days and a couple of hours each day to get it working finally, there were no rays casting; coming out of the handles... Then finally, I got it working and started to play some games I have on Steam, like beat saber, etc. it was the worse, I used Wiffii and a USB cable, and there was no way to get the game synchronized, then I tried other games and the same problems. On my 4th day, I returned. I dont understand how can hardware so expensive it is not better than the Oculus Quest 2, which I bought, and I was impressed from the beginning! everything works and there is no delay in playing any game, and what is the best news, it is only 300 USD, 1100 USD Dollars less. great Graphics. Some people dont like it because it is tied to Facebook, but who cares.... I just want to play.

March 2022 update: Increased the review to 4 stars because HTC made a MAJOR UPDATE and now visual quality is way higher. Honestly, its so good now that its the only headset I use for any games that involve standing up, I only use my Reverb G2 for sims now. In so many ways, the physical hardware of the Focus 3 screams quality, the displays have such high pixel density that I can barely make out the individual pixels and even then only when Im standing still and really trying to notice them. Its a pleasant experience to wear, really well balanced and well shaped, I could wear it for hours. I like the controllers overall, theyre a major improvement over my previous Reverb G2 controllers. The battery life is over two hours and it recharges quickly. The optics could be better but theyre good enough most of the time. Now the bad part. It feels sometimes like the software and firmware is in beta. Especially if you use this for wirelessly running steamvr apps and games, the hardware is very bottlenecked by 100mbps whether wifi or cable mode. For comparison, the much lower resolution Quest 2 is 200 mbps wifi and 500 mbps via cable. And what worries me is that they havent raised that ceiling in the over half a year that its been on the market. The Focus 3 is the first ever VR headset to utilize WIFI 6E but whats the point of that feature if the bandwidth is so low? Another example of the beta software experience the microphone wasnt usable with steamvr apps until November 2021, 4-5 months after the Focus 3 came out. So, see what I mean? Its like a pattern where excellent hardware was put out and HTC will properly finish the software over the next... who knows how long. The Vive Focus 3 has the potential to be the best wireless VR headset on the market, even now I am really enjoying this headset, its my only choice now in any game that is played standing up and when HTC delivers the firmware/software to let it live up to its potential, I will be more than happy to come back and update my review, but as of February 2022, this is how things stand.

Ordered one but it arrived dead. Wouldnt power up or respond in anyway after charging battery. Hardware looked and felt nice. Just a shame it wouldnt turn on.

This device seems to have a lot of cutting edge features, but totally lacks in the most important departments, WIFI and lens clarity- crap. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED. Try playing some streaming wireless SteamVR games - unless they run at about 20 fps or less - they stink - unplayable. Constant wifi disconnects.

Finally, a truly MDM friendly enterprise class VR device. Kiosk mode works great, MDM is super easy and fully featured.

For $1300 you expect something fully completed. Well this is not the case. I posses the rift , oculus , valve and hp2 and by far this is the worst headset in the market. Full of Bugs , glitches and Defect, Controllers disconnecting, wifi disconnecting, Failing to start giving me corrupt data . i have to factory reset it . After that it went for bad to worst. the streaming software that allow you to play with steamvr was completely useless . causing my pc to cash 20 times. After 2-3 hours of trying to fix the issue i just couldnt anymore. STAY AWAY THIS HEADSET IT still a prototype and shouldnt never been released.

ENTERPRIZE USERS BEWARE: It is an awful IT, software, and user experience. If you are an enterprise or business who is going to own more than one device, go with ANY OTHER option (oculus for business or really any other consumer grade model for a better enterprise experience). We have 50 of these enterprise headsets, and it is an IT nightmare that has exceeded cost expectations by alarming amounts. Updates have to be done individually (think of more than 90 minuets per device per update). There is no useful update every device the company owns, and even if you are using the business interface, you still have to have a human put the head set on their head, wait for boot up, setup the boundaries, click though some things, and then finally click a YES PLEASE UPDATE THIS DEVICE. We contract with other companies to provide us VR software and they hate the HTC products... Firmware and other issues make our providers look like idiots, but after extensive troubleshooting (People with programming PhDs spending hours just to get one device updated)