Wireless HTC Vive tested: One of VR’s problems solved, but two remain

Andrew Williams

BARCELONA, Spain—VR has the potential to be a very exciting technological domain, but it's lumbered with numerous problems: high price, low performance, and generally the sheer pain-in-the-backside factor, particularly with more advanced setups like the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. At MWC 2017 we tried two solutions that evaporate the physical connection between headset and PC, mostly mitigating the last of those three issues.

The two solutions are DisplayLink XR, made by DisplayLink, and TPCast, which appears to be made by a company called TPCast. We wrote about the latter back in November 2016 when it was first announced in China. Now we’ve physically tried them both.

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