The Vive Focus Plus will get wireless VR streaming – but will it be any good?

The Vive Focus Plus launched earlier this year as an update to the similarly standalone Vive Focus headset – though this time with two 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) controllers instead of the original's single 3DoF input. We noted at launch that HTC's headset was quite a bit pricier than its competitor, the $399 / £399 (around AU$730) Oculus Quest, though it made up for this with a sharper 2880 x 1600 screen and faster Snapdragon 825 processor. The ability to wirelessly stream titles will be something of a boon given the limited 32GB onboard storage, though we're yet to see how well this will work in practice. VR titles will require a lot of data to be transferred over the air, and there's a reason commercial headsets tend to either feature onboard / downloaded titles, or be hooked up to a high-performing PC instead.  While high-end VR headsets, like the next-gen HTC Vive Cosmos, will certainly still require a wired connection to show off VR titles at their best, the  strategy of the Focus Plus may start to pave the way for mainstream VR streaming – though it likely won't be able to compete performance-wise until 5G gets into the picture.