VIVE Focus Vision — specification and verdict
VIVE Focus Vision lists the highest resolution in this comparison at 2,448 x 2,448 pixels per eye, with a field of view up to 120 degrees, 90 Hz standalone and 120 Hz over a DisplayPort connection. Interpupillary distance adjusts automatically between 57 and 72 mm — the only motorised adjustment among these models, and a real advantage when a headset passes between people all day. Tracking uses four cameras across areas up to 10 by 10 metres, with 120 Hz eye tracking on board. HTC publishes no weight anywhere, so the ≈785 g shown here is a hands-on measurement, marked as such.
HTC still sells first-party fleet tooling: VIVE Business+ handles remote monitoring and settings across devices, alongside support for Intune, VMware and third-party platforms. The Business Edition bundles two years of VIVE Business Warranty & Services, and commercial use requires activating that warranty within 90 days — a licensing detail worth catching before deployment rather than after. Face and rear cushions are magnetic and swappable, and the wipeable surface is designed for shared use. It is available through HTC's European business store, Poland included.
Choose VIVE Focus Vision when visual fidelity and large tracked areas matter — walkthroughs of real-scale spaces, detailed inspection work — and when you want warranty and management under a commercial agreement rather than consumer terms. The automatic interpupillary adjustment quietly removes one of the most-skipped setup steps in shared training.
How it compares within its class
The axis runs from the lowest to the highest published figure among the VR — standalone devices in this catalogue. The grey tick is the median of that class.
Median for this class: 103°, from 25 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: 180 min, from 25 models that publish the figure.
Median for this class: $624, from 36 models that publish the figure.
Full specification
An em dash means the manufacturer does not publish that figure.
- ManufacturerWho makes it — and who you buy support from.
- HTC VIVE
- CategoryWhich kind of product this is. It decides which rows below make sense at all.
- VR — standalone
- Device typeWhere the computing happens, and therefore what you need to run it.
- Standalone VR, also PC-powered
- AnnouncedThe day it was shown, which is not the day it shipped.
- 2024-09-18
- ReleasedYear the model went on sale. Older is not automatically worse in this category.
- 2024
- AvailabilityWhether you can still order it new today.
- On sale
- Support endsThe date the manufacturer stops supporting it. Decisive for a fleet you are about to buy.
- Support ends: not published by the manufacturer
- PanelThe screen type. micro-OLED gives deeper blacks and higher contrast; LCD is brighter and cheaper.
- LCD
- OpticsThe lenses in front of the panel. Pancake stays sharp closer to the edges than older Fresnel, which decides how much a trainee has to aim their head to read something.
- Optics: not published by the manufacturer
- Eyes coveredOne eye or both. Over a full shift this is a real difference in fatigue.
- Both eyes
- Resolution per eyePixels delivered to each eye. Higher means small text and labels stay readable.
- 2448x2448
- Refresh rateImages per second. Higher feels smoother and helps people prone to motion discomfort.
- 90/120 Hz
- Field of viewHow much of your view the image covers. Bigger is more immersive, not automatically better for work.
- 120° horizontal
- Pixel densityPixels per degree of view — the honest way to compare sharpness between a headset and a pair of glasses. Higher is sharper. Only shown where somebody published it; we never compute it ourselves.
- Pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- BrightnessIn a plant or outdoors, brightness decides legibility more than resolution does.
- Brightness: not published by the manufacturer
- WeightThe device alone. Anything above roughly 150 g is felt within an hour.
- ≈785 g*UploadVR hands-on
- Visible field of viewWhat the eye actually sees through the optics, by axis.
- Visible field of view: not published by the manufacturer
- Rendered field of viewWhat the device draws. Never smaller than what you see.
- 117.22° horizontal · 96.46° vertical
- Binocular overlapWhere both eyes see the same thing — this is where depth happens.
- 79.13°
- Average pixel densityPixels per degree across the image. More is sharper.
- 20.4 PPD horizontal (computed)
- Peak pixel densityThe sharpest point, usually the centre of the lens.
- Peak pixel density: not published by the manufacturer
- Subpixel layoutHow the coloured dots sit in a pixel. A stripe looks cleaner on text than PenTile.
- RGB stripe · 3 subpixels per pixel
- Foveated renderingWhether detail is dropped outside where you look, to save performance.
- Eye-tracked
- PassthroughWhat the front cameras give you: colour, grayscale, or nothing.
- Colour
- Passthrough camerasResolution, density and frame rate of that camera feed.
- Passthrough cameras: not published by the manufacturer
- IPD adjustmentMatching lens spacing to the eyes. Motorised is fastest when one headset passes between people.
- Motorised
- IPD rangeHow far the lenses travel to match eye spacing. A narrow range excludes part of any group of adults, which matters when one headset is shared.
- 57–72 mm
- Works with glassesWhether people who wear glasses can use it — fits over them, or takes prescription lens inserts.
- Yes
- Vision correctionHow somebody who wears glasses uses it, and in what dioptre range.
- Fits over glasses
- DimensionsWidth, height and depth of the device itself.
- Dimensions: not published by the manufacturer
- Weight with strapWith the strap it ships with — the weight you actually wear.
- Weight with strap: not published by the manufacturer
- Head strapSoft band or a rigid one. Decides how the weight sits over an hour.
- Rigid strap with a dial
- MaterialsShell and facial interface, in the vendor’s words.
- Magnesium alloy frame · PU leather trim
- ColoursColours the manufacturer sells it in.
- Black
- Haptics in the headsetVibration in the headset itself, not in the controllers.
- No
- TrackingWhether content stays put in the room (6DoF), follows head rotation (3DoF) or is simply fixed.
- inside-out 6DoF
- Base stationsWhether boxes have to be mounted on the walls before it works.
- Not needed
- Tracking camerasHow many cameras it uses to know where it is.
- 4
- Tracking rateHow often position is recalculated. Higher is steadier.
- Tracking rate: not published by the manufacturer
- Depth sensorA dedicated sensor for distance, on top of the cameras.
- Yes
- Hand trackingWhether bare hands can operate the interface, without a controller or the phone.
- Yes
- Eye trackingThe headset knows where the trainee is looking. Enables sharper rendering where they look, and attention analytics.
- Yes
- Face trackingTracks facial expression — for avatars, not for training scenarios.
- No
- Body trackingHow much of the body the device knows about. Estimated legs are not tracked legs.
- None
- Controllers includedWhether motion controllers come in the box, or are bought separately — or the device is hands-only.
- Yes
- Controller modelThe manufacturer's own name for the controller.
- Vive Focus 3 Controller
- Controller tracking6DoF controllers track position and rotation, so a hand reaches in space; 3DoF only point. “None” means hands only.
- 6DoF
- Finger tracking on the controllerWhether the controller senses individual fingers, and how.
- Capacitive (partial)
- Controller inputsButtons, sticks and triggers the controller offers.
- Capacitive face buttons · capacitive joystick · capacitive touch pad · capacitive index trigger · middle finger trigger
- Controller hapticsVibration feedback in the hand.
- Yes
- Controller powerDisposable cells or a built-in rechargeable — a fleet question.
- Built-in rechargeable
- Controller weightOne controller, as the vendor weighs it.
- 142 g
- Other input methodsWays in beyond controllers and bare hands.
- Other input methods: not published by the manufacturer
- PerformanceHow much the headset can run — sharper scenes, more objects, smoother mixed reality. Higher is better.
- Good
- ProcessorThe processor and memory inside. This is what the performance grade above is derived from.
- Snapdragon XR2
- CPUCores and clocks, where the manufacturer publishes them.
- Octa-core Kryo 585 (1 x 2.84 GHz, 3 x 2.42 GHz, 4 x 1.8 GHz)
- GPUThe graphics part of the chip.
- Adreno 650
- MemoryRAM on the device. Together with the chipset it sets how complex a scene can be.
- 12 GB
- PlatformThe platform an application is built against — and what an MDM has to speak.
- Android
- StorageOn-board space for downloaded courses. More matters for an offline library in several languages.
- 128 GB
- SD card slotWhether storage can be added with a card.
- Yes
- BatteryRuntime as the manufacturer states it. A hot-swappable pack matters more than the figure.
- 120 min
- Battery capacity (Wh)Energy in the cell. Bigger is longer, given the same power draw.
- Battery capacity (Wh): not published by the manufacturer
- Battery capacity (mAh)The same fact in the other unit vendors use. We never convert between the two.
- 7000 mAh
- Charge timeFrom empty to full. Rarely stated by the manufacturer, so it usually comes from whoever timed it.
- 90 min
- ChargerPower of the supplied charger — it decides the charge time above.
- 30 W
- External batteryBattery on a cable or a puck instead of on the head.
- External battery: not published by the manufacturer
- Charging caseExtra runtime carried in the case the glasses ship with.
- Charging case: not published by the manufacturer
- Hot-swap batteryWhether a charged battery can replace the empty one without ending the session. This is what decides if a headset can hold an all-day training station.
- Yes
- Runs Skillsive appsOur own statement about whether Skillsive training applications run on it today.
- Yes
- Suitable for trainingOur judgement on whether it survives real deployment: comfort, hygiene, fleet management.
- Yes
- Kiosk mode / MDMVendor tooling to enrol devices, push an app and lock the headset to it. Practically required above ten devices.
- Yes
- Business tierAn official business tier, so devices belong to the company rather than to employees’ personal accounts.
- Yes
- Swappable facial interfaceRemovable, wipeable face padding. A consumable, and the difference between shared use and complaints.
- Yes
- CertificationsIndustrial certifications stated on the manufacturer's own page. Empty means unconfirmed, never "probably fine".
- Manufactured in a TAA-designated region · NDAA Section 889 compliant
- PortsPhysical sockets and charging contacts.
- 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C
- Wi-FiThe Wi-Fi generation — it decides how well wireless streaming holds up.
- 6E
- BluetoothFor controllers, headphones and accessories.
- 5.2 LE
- Video from a computerWhether a computer can drive it, over a cable or wirelessly.
- Over a cable · Wireless
- AudioBuilt-in sound. Matters most where somebody has to hear a remote expert while working.
- Built-in speakers · Headphone jack
- MicrophoneBuilt-in microphone — the other half of talking to a remote expert.
- Yes
- MicrophonesHow many. An array picks a voice out of a noisy hall; one does not.
- 2
- Price bandThe band it sits in, rather than a price that goes stale.
- Enterprise
- Launch priceThe manufacturer's launch price. Fixed history, so it never goes stale.
- $999
- Price by configurationWhat each configuration cost at launch.
- Price by configuration: not published by the manufacturer
- Price todayApproximate current net price in USD — a general figure, since these barely differ between regions once tax is stripped out. A snapshot from the date shown, not an offer.
- $1149
- Comfort (from reviews)How it wears over a full session. Scored from agreement between independent reviewers, not from our own testing.
- Comfort (from reviews): not published by the manufacturer
- Edge clarity (from reviews)Sharpness away from the centre of the lens. Scored from agreement between independent reviewers.
- Edge clarity (from reviews): not published by the manufacturer
- Tracking reliability (from reviews)How tracking holds up in poor light and fast movement. Scored from agreement between independent reviewers.
- Tracking reliability (from reviews): not published by the manufacturer
- Hand tracking quality (from reviews)How usable controller-free hand tracking is in a training scenario. Scored from agreement between reviewers.
- Hand tracking quality (from reviews): not published by the manufacturer
Average pixel density is our own arithmetic: panel pixels divided by the field of view on the same axis. It is the standard approximation, and it runs lower than a published peak figure because a lens packs pixels denser at the centre.
Who this device is for
Focus Vision is for organisations that need one headset to do two jobs: standalone training on the shop floor, and wired PC VR for a simulator or an engineering review. It ships with vendor device management, kiosk mode, enterprise licensing and eye tracking, our courses run on it, and it is one of the few devices here still sold as a business product rather than a consumer one.
How it differs from its predecessor
Against VIVE XR Elite it is a heavier, more capable machine: 2448x2448 per eye against 1920x1920, 120 degrees of field of view, eye tracking on board and a DisplayPort mode the Elite reaches only over Wi-Fi. Against Quest 3 it is twice the price and 270 g heavier, and it buys back the fleet management Meta no longer sells.
What is missing, and what the manufacturer does not publish
At 785 g it is the heaviest device in this class and the weight is a third-party measurement, not an HTC figure. Storage is 128 GB, the lowest of the enterprise headsets here, and the DisplayPort mode needs the separate wired streaming kit plus a capable PC. The content ecosystem is also smaller than Meta's — for training that matters less, because the application is yours.
VIVE Focus Vision in independent reviews
Reviews we consider worth your time, each with a note on what the reviewer actually tested and why it matters for a training rollout. We do not own this hardware, so the tests are theirs — the reading of them is ours.
- MRTV - MIXED REALITY TV2024
The rundown of what HTC actually built here, with the DisplayPort mode as the headline: a standalone headset that also works as a wired PC VR display. That hybrid is the reason this device is on a shortlist at all, and this is the clearest explanation of how it works.
Watch on YouTube - VoodooDE VR - english version -2024
A blunt review from a channel that does not grade on a curve. Useful for the comfort verdict in particular — at 785 g this is the heaviest headset most buyers will consider, and weight is the thing a spec sheet cannot convey.
Watch on YouTube - VR Flight Sim Guy2024
A flight simulator user's review, which sounds narrow but is the best available test of the DisplayPort mode: hours of use, fine cockpit text, and a PC doing the rendering. Exactly the load a professional simulation puts on the headset.
Watch on YouTube
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VIVE Focus Vision — frequently asked questions
- What is DisplayPort mode on the VIVE Focus Vision?
- A wired connection that turns the standalone headset into a PC VR display, with the computer doing the rendering and no Wi-Fi compression in the path. It needs HTC's streaming kit and a capable PC, and it is the reason to choose this headset over a purely standalone one.
- Is the VIVE Focus Vision too heavy for long training sessions?
- At around 785 g it is the heaviest headset most buyers will consider, but the weight sits in a balanced halo strap with a rear battery, which is why reviewers report it wearing better than the number suggests. For hour-long sessions it is workable; for a full day, plan breaks regardless of headset.
- Does the VIVE Focus Vision support company device management?
- Yes — HTC sells it as a business product with device management, kiosk mode and enterprise licensing included in the offer. That is now a differentiator rather than a given: Meta stopped selling its equivalent to new customers in February 2026.
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