Without it, there’s nothing to pull the glasses up to your face, and light leaks are much more common. There is another power mode, where you don’t attach the battery pack but instead run a USB-C cable from the headset to some other power source, but we found the battery pack mode is the best. You can just pull the plug and blame the batteries. It’s got an advertised life of two hours, giving you a very plausible excuse if someone in your meeting is droning on too long. The headset comes with a battery back, that attaches to the arms of the glasses and sits at the back of your head, nicely offsetting the weight of the glasses themselves and holding everything firmly (but not too firmly) in place. HTC’s Vive XR Elite virtual- and mixed-reality goggles have a rear battery pack that nicely distributes the weight and lets you use the headset for two hours of meetings in a single charge. You’re drawing in three dimensions in thin air, and can walk around your drawings as if they, too, are solid objects floating in space. Though I must say, drawing is a very odd experience inside the Vive XR Elite. You can also use the controllers to walk around 3D objects that have been placed inside the meeting space, and even to draw on them as part of the discussion. When I couldn’t quite follow what he was saying, I just used the buttons on my controller to turn on my own virtual laser pointer, and pointed at the huge screen myself. In one meeting I attended, the presenter had called up an image onto a huge, virtual screen inside the virtual meeting room, and was using a virtual laser pointer to highlight the things on the image he was talking about. The headset has sensors on the front which can track your hands and place them as blue apparitions inside the virtual space, and using either your hands or (better) the two handheld controllers that come with the headset, you can interact in your meetings in ways that you simply can’t do in regular Zoom meetings. Vive Sync lets you meet inside the metaverse Photo taken by John Davidson’s avatar While the novelty factor of such meetings will doubtless wear off inside the hour (I can last about 40 or 50 minutes in the new headset before it starts to get uncomfortable), there is something about it that could keep you coming back. The Vive XR Elite headset has speakers built into the arms of the glasses, rather like the Bose Frames sunglasses we reviewed several years back, and it’s got built-in microphones, too, so conversations inside Vive Sync are pretty natural, other than the fact you’re inside a video-game-style virtual reality.
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