Valve: Wireless high-end VR is a solved problem

Those cables that are holding you down in virtual reality may soon go extinct.

Valve expects wireless technology to come to the HTC Vive and the wider, high-end PC-powered VR market this year. Devices like the TPCast already exist. This is a dongle you add to the Vive that wirelessly beams the HDMI signal to the VR head-mounted display and powers it with a battery. It isn’t on sale yet, but Valve thinks that will change soon. The company expects that tech will end up as a standard feature in future headset iterations.