How to watch the HTC Vive Flow event
HTC has been teasing an event due to take place later today for the past few weeks, with the tagline ‘Go with the Flow’. Given the fact that the companysubmitted a trademarkfor a head-mounted display called the “Vive Flow” back in August, it’s looking likely that we’re going to get our first look at a new HTC Vive headset.
We cover when the HTC Vive event is due to take place, along with details on livestream availability and what to expect from the event, right here.
When is the HTC Vive Flow event?
The first rumblings about an event came in theform of a tweetfrom the China President of HTC Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, teasing “some big news in a small package” with a link to a registration site.
The event is due to take place today,14 October 2021 at 8am PDT/11am EDT, and while the VR registration site notes that it’ll begin at 3pm GMT, that timezone is incorrect for this time of the year in the UK.If you’re in the UK, it’ll kick off at 4pm BST.
Can I watch the HTC Vive Flow event from home?
As with most modern product reveals, you’ll be able to watch the Vive event from the comfort of your own home. In fact, Vive is leveraging its power as a VR company to bring two livestreams; one standard stream, and a live VR event you can watch from within your VR headset.
If you want to watch the standard Vive live stream, you can tune in via theHTC Vive website, and it’s not hard to imagine it’ll also be streamed via theVive YouTube channeltoo. If it does appear on YouTube, we’ll embed it at the top of this page for ease of use.
If, however, you want to don your VR headset, you’ll have to pre-register ahead of time via theEngage VR website. Once you’ve pre-registered, you’ll be sent specific instructions on how to access the virtual content via most VR headsets.
What should I expect from the HTC Vive Flow event
As mentioned, Vive has been teasing the tagline ‘Go with the Flow’ and following a trademark filing in late August, and amore recent FCC filing, it’s widely expected that we’ll be getting our first look at a new headset called HTC Flow at the event. But what will the headset offer?
While details are scarce on the ground right now, areport from Protocolsuggests it’ll be a lightweight headset tailored to media consumption and light gaming, which to us sounds similar to the Oculus Go than Oculus Quest 2, though Protocol notes that the new headset “is supposed to feature 6 degrees of freedom tracking”, so it should be advanced than Oculus’ now-discontinued Go headset.
There are also official Vive teasers to consider, showing off whatlooks to be a carry casefor a device much smaller than the Oculus Quest 2, andmore recently it showcasedwhat’s believed to be an outline of the headset, and it looks eerily similar toVive’s Project Proton prototypeit teased at the beginning of 2020.
Whatever Vive has planned, we don’t have long until we find out for sure.
Author: Lewis Painter, Contributor
Lewis Painter was once a Tech Advisor Senior Staff Writer. He covers everything from iPhone to AirPods, plus a range of smartphones, tablets, laptops and gaming hardware.
