HTC has announced that it is working on a standalone headset for Chinese markets: while it will be cosmetically identical to the one that HTC is bringing to the US with Google, the China-focused standalone will utilize Qualcomm’s Snapdragon VR tracking tech and run on HTC’s Viveport platform. Our version, which is rumored to release by the end of this year, will be built on Google Daydream and utilize Google’s WorldSense positional tracking technology.



“China is the leading mobile market in the world today, and has the momentum to lead the global VR market as well,” said HTC Vive exec Alvin W. Graylin in a statement. Neither HTC or Qualcomm had much to share about what exactly there was to expect from the standalone Vive coming to either U.S. or China, though details on Qualcomm’s 835 reference VR headset likely offer some perspective. “It’s following the reference design and the reference design has a given set of specs and features,” Hugo Swart, a product management senior director at Qualcomm tells me.

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