How to watch the HTC Vive Flow launch event

(Pocket-lint) - Back successful August HTC submitted a trademark for a head-mounted show called the "Vive Flow". Now the institution is teasing an lawsuit happening connected 14 October to uncover more. 

Over the past fewer days, HTC has been posting a fig of cryptic images hinting astatine the reveal. These person included relaxing manner shots including idiosyncratic sitting connected a sofa with popcorn, a woman successful sitting successful a yoga airs and idiosyncratic speechmaking a publication successful bed. 

The event, referred to arsenic "Go with the Flow" is acceptable to hap successful a substance of days and it volition surely marque for absorbing watching. After all, connected the 1 hand, we person the hints astatine a caller head-mounted show successful the trademark application, but we besides person HTC showing disconnected a canister that couldn't perchance clasp a full-blown VR headset. 

Alvin Wang Graylin, the China President of HTC Vive has besides tweeted that the institution volition beryllium announcing "some large quality successful a tiny package" and that the instrumentality tin "access from VR, PC, Mac oregon phone". 

You’re invited to articulation a peculiar #immersive lawsuit successful #VR connected October 14 astatine 11 a.m. EDT to perceive astir immoderate large quality successful a tiny package. Can entree from VR, PC, Mac oregon phone. Click nexus to reserve your abstraction now. #gowiththeflow https://t.co/WlEmQzU9r9 #xr #metaverse @htcvive

— Alvin Wang Graylin (汪丛青) (@AGraylin) September 28, 2021

Does that mean we're yet getting a standalone headset from HTC to rival the Oculus Quest 2? We had a tease of this imaginable backmost successful April with the Vive Air, but that was aboriginal said to conscionable beryllium a conception instrumentality and wouldn't really beryllium launched. 

The Vive Focus 3 is the closest we person to that offering truthful far, but successful classical HTC fashion, it's an costly headset mostly aimed astatine concern users. Are things astir to alteration with a much consumer-focused device? And is that headset really the company's archetypal effort astatine AR glasses? 

How to ticker the Go with the Flow event

The Go with the Flow is happening connected 14 October. You tin visit the authoritative website to adhd it to your calendar oregon get a reminder by email. 

The lawsuit is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine 11am EDT, that's 4PM BST, 5PM, CEST and 8AM PT.

We're expecting it to beryllium broadcast connected the authoritative site, but you tin besides ticker it successful VR with EngageVR.

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 6 October 2021.