{"id":83935,"date":"2019-02-21T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/337220"},"modified":"2019-02-21T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:26:00","slug":"htc-is-launching-the-vive-focus-plus-this-year-complete-with-6dof-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/htc-is-launching-the-vive-focus-plus-this-year-complete-with-6dof-controllers\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC is launching the Vive Focus Plus this year, complete with 6DoF controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HTC Vive has announced that the Vive Focus, its business-focused standalone VR headset, is getting an upgrade through the freshly revealed Vive Focus Plus.<\/p>\n<p>The Vive Focus Plus comes with the same focus on HTC\u2019s enterprise customer base, but adds in upgrades like new controllers with 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) capability built in, a more comfortable design, and a handful of hardware improvements.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, HTC Vive notes that the changes introduced with the Plus aim to make the stand-alone device more easy and comfortable to use while the 6DoF features ultimately\u00a0make it easier for devs to port their PC VR projects to the Plus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Vive, the announcement of Vive Focus Plus furthers our commitment to rapidly iterate and refine the VR market for both businesses and consumers,\u201d said HTC Vive&#8217;s American GM Daniel O\u2019Brien. \u201cThis rollout of Vive Focus Plus leads the way for deeper immersion, more realistic training,\u00a0and simulation, and easier porting of experiences from PC to the stand-alone category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315718\/HTC_to_launch_standalone_Vive_Focus_headset_outside_of_China.php\">original Vive Focus launched<\/a> in China before getting a worldwide release, the Vive Focus Plus is due to release in 25 countries during Q2 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC Vive has announced that the Vive Focus, its business-focused standalone VR headset, is getting an upgrade through the freshly revealed Vive Focus Plus. The Vive Focus Plus comes with the same focus on HTC\u2019s enterprise customer base, but adds in upgrades like new controllers with 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) capability built in, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}