HTC VIVE - New Year's Resolution - Can we expect a higher resolution for this HMD this year?
HTC will be announcing on the 8th of January 2018, so this Monday at the CES something new and related to the resolution of the HTC VIVE
— HTC VIVE (@htcvive) 5. Januar 2018
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So what will it be? Will it be a new and better HMD (Head Mounted Display)? Better resolution? Better lenses with less screen-door effect? The speculation starts and I have to admit to be very much hyped for this.
Remember the HTC VIVE has been released on the 5th of April in 2016 and the price has not been lowered significantly since then. This means there will be a lot of grim from the community, from gamers that have just bought the HMD for Christmas. But this is how technology works, especially with new state of art technology like VR.
But with all the speculation put aside, I do not expect a release before Octobre 2018.
The PC Gamer speculates with a 4K screen resolution
This would of course be perfect. But I doubt that we will see such a big step in the technology this year. On the other hand it goes without saying that NIVIDIA will have also a great interest in a better resolution of HMD, since they are more than likely to announce this year the GTX 1100 series of new GPUs.
Personnally I am super hyped and can not wait for the announcement. Will I purchase a completely new HMD after 1 1/2 years of mine? Good question. It will depend on the step forward of the new HMD. Maybe not directly on release, but a little bit down the road. 4k definitely. 2k less likely.
Let's get hyped!
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