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HTC promised its Vive Cosmos would be an extensible, modular virtual reality headset and now the company is finally making good on its promise with some new add-ons and variants.
First up the new Vive Cosmos Elite is a more, well…elite version of HTC’s latest VR headset that adds a pair of SteamVR base stations for even more accurate inside-out. This precision tracking focused headset also comes with a preinstalled External Tracking Faceplate as well as a pair of Vive controllers for $899, which puts it a $200 premium over the $699 Vive Cosmos, when it releases Q1 (or roughly between now and April).
Aside from the new face plate and Lighthouse tracking base stations, this is still the same exact Vive Cosmos headset HTC put out earlier last year. From the 1,700-by-1,440-pixel resolution per eye to the halo-style headband, this Elite version of the Vive Cosmos hasn’t upgraded anything else.
That’s exactly why and how HTC also plans to release the External Tracking Faceplate as a standalone upgrade for $200. This will allow users to add external tracking their headset simply by switching out the faceplate on the original Vive Cosmos or the new entry-level Vive Cosmos Play—which we’ll get into now.