Dean Takahashi demos a Qualcomm XR virtual reality headset.
Dean Takahashi demos a Qualcomm XR virtual reality headset.
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HTC teams up with Qualcomm for Vive XR mobile devices

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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HTC announced that its Vive division will use Qualcomm’s technologies for XR standalone and 5G smartphone in its Vive Wave mobile virtual reality platform. Using both the HTC and Qualcomm technologies, headset makers will be able to deploy inexpensive headsets for augmented reality or virtual reality.

That future of inexpensive XR (extended reality, including both augmented reality and virtual reality) headsets is coming pretty fast, as companies are starting to announce headsets that take advantage of connections to smartphones — or connections via 5G or 60-gigahertz wireless to PCs.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.