Vive Cosmos gets vague release date as HTC offers development guidance

HTC’s Vive Cosmos has remained enigmatic ever since its name leaked in a trademark filing last year, and despite a somewhat perplexing unveiling at CES in January. Now the VR headset has a general release date — the “Q3 timeframe” — as HTC is offering guidance to help developers ready existing titles for the impending launch.

The news comes from the Vive developer blog, which revealed the date range this month at the same time as it promised to devote “the next two months to comprehensive testing” of launch software. That would seemingly rule out June, July, and early August as potential Cosmos release dates. Since the “Q3 timeframe” includes July, August, and September, the release window could be narrowed to between mid-August and the end of September, assuming HTC stays on track.