HTC`s Vive XR Elite does VR and AR for $1,099
(CrackBerry.com)

Step aside, Meta. Take another look, Apple. There`s a new boss in town. HTC saw what Meta`s trying to do with its Quest headset, and has seen all the rumors of Apple`s long-gestating entry into virtual reality or augmented reality headsets, and said to themselves `We`re HTC, VR is our thing we can do better.` And so they did, rolling out the fully standalone Vive XR Elite headset that hits all of the marks: it`s compact, light, and powerful. The Vive headset line has until now been focused primarily on VR, so expanding to AR meant a new approach to some of HTC`s strengths. Chief among them was adding in passthrough cameras to show the outside world that are color and space accurate — what you see through the headset should exactly reflect what you would see without it. The Vive XR Elite also has cameras on it for hand tracking without a motion controller, though it does include two of those as well. By pulling all of this together into a headset that has the necessary power to run...