In the boundary section, you can change the color and opacity of the boundary, enable automatic passthrough when you step through the boundary, and recalibrate the floor and safe area. In the settings general menu, you can set the time, date, see the headset software version and prompt it to check for updates, and enable double-click passthrough view. You also get a settings menu to adjust some of the configuration options for the headset. You can access the content library, which provides you with a tiled listing of the installed software. We could log in to our Viveport account However, it did not give us access to the Viveport marketplace. The environment is fancy, but the menu system is relatively basic. The Vive Focus 3 home looks like a modern office space that overlooks a desert scene. Once you've set the guardian, the passthrough view fades away to the virtual environment. Next, trace the border of your safe place space by pointing the controller at the ground while pulling the trigger. If the headset is not detecting the correct height, reach to the floor with one of the controllers to set the floor position. The pairing process took less than a second.Ĭalibrating the tracking guardian works exactly how it does with the Quest 2. The process is simple and involves pressing the Vive logo button on the right controller and the hamburger button on the left controller. The next step is to connect the controllers. The on-screen calibration gives you a readout with two decimal points, but the dial isn't that precise, and we found that the measurement update interval doesn't keep up with the dial movement.

The next step is the IPD adjustment, which is done with a dial found below your nose on the bottom of the visor. A progress bar will fill up as you hold the button, and when it completes, the app message goes away, and you'll find yourself in passthrough mode with an initial configuration process to follow. To bypass the app install screen, press and hold the menu button on the left side of the headset. Unfortunately, those apps were not available ahead of launch, so we have not tested them out. When I first started the headset, we were greeted with a message telling us to download the companion app for my smartphone or the desktop software for my computer. However, the headset came pre-loaded with a small selection of apps for reviewers, which we'll get into in the dedicated section below. The headset that HTC provided us for this evaluation is a pre-release model which does not have all of its features enabled. Like the Quest controllers, the Focus 3 controller features a halo with infrared LEDs for tracking. The Focus 3 controllers feature internal lithium-ion batteries with a USB Type-C charge port on the bottom of each handle.

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