Inside the simulation: a person wearing a mixed-reality headset stands facing the viewer beside dark glowing consoles, a window onto floodlit plant structures at night.

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VIVE and Varjo headsets for professional simulation

Standalone and PC-tethered headsets with colour passthrough and eye tracking, for the simulation a control room or a cockpit asks for.

In a real room

When the simulation has to be exact

A procedure at a bench, a console under load, a vehicle on a road: the class of headset built for professional simulation.

A glow follows a hand across controls. A first person VR training scenario for virtual reality training and simulation, seen through the headset. — A glow follows a hand across controls.

Virtual hands hold a wheel beside a road. A first person VR training scenario for virtual reality training and simulation, seen through the headset. — Virtual hands hold a wheel beside a road.

Inside the simulation, a resuscitation bay is seen from the foot of an empty bed, equipment trolleys nearby, clinicians waiting on the wearer's call. — A resuscitation bay from the foot of the bed.

Programs

Which programs run on it

A tethered headset lets a scenario carry the detail a PC can render, and the eye tracking a debrief can use.

A participant rehearses a procedure. A VR training scenario for virtual reality training and simulation. — A participant rehearses a procedure.

Custom VR builds with a PC behind them

Clinical conversations inside a high-fidelity ward, an induction in a plant that is not built yet, a de-escalation scene under a control-room load. A custom build is scoped with you; the Library titles are built for standalone Meta Quest and PICO.

Two people inspect a machine structure. A VR training scenario for what is mixed reality. — Inspecting a machine structure.

What it does in a real room

HTC states "2448 x 2448 pixels per eye" for the VIVE Focus Vision, which runs standalone and streams PC content in DisplayPort mode. Varjo states "3840 x 3744 per eye resolution" and "Dual 20 megapixel cameras" for the Varjo XR-4, built for "training and simulation across air, land, and sea".

VR, AR or MR sets out what the room in view changes.

The fleet

What a fleet needs

A Varjo station is a Windows PC with an NVIDIA graphics card and a headset; a Focus Vision fleet runs standalone or tethered.

Two people test a controller beside a switch. A VR training scenario for what is virtual reality. — Testing a controller beside a switch.

A PC per station, and batteries that swap

HTC states a "Removable, swappable battery with battery life of up to 2 hours" and hot-swap "for up to 20 minutes" on its reserve, and pairs the headset with VIVE Business+ device management. ArborXR manages HTC beside Meta and PICO. Headsets and equipment lists the IT questions.

An incident controller waits for a decision. A first person VR training scenario for government and public sector, seen through the headset. — An incident controller waits for a decision.

Who chooses it

Simulation centres, defence and transport trainers, mining and utilities with a control room to rehearse, and research groups that measure gaze.

Mining and resources, transport and simulation leads describe the fit from their side.

What PTR ships

What PTR ships on it

PTR builds VR, AR and MR in Unity and Unreal Engine, and a tethered headset is where the engines have the most room.

A person wearing a VR headset inside one of PTR's role-play, perspective or procedural training scenarios, under pressure cues. — Inside a scenario, under pressure cues.

Custom builds in Unity and Unreal Engine

An XR fast build blocks out the space at full scale, puts the people the build is for inside it, and comes back with a decision. ArborXR lists People Tech Revolution with device support for HTC, Meta and PICO.

Compare it with

Sibling devices, each on its own page

An inclusion scenario for practising supportive conversation.

Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S

Inside the Mater build: an older patient sits up in a hospital bed, a meal tray across the blanket, curtains drawn beside him.

PICO: enterprise fleets and education

Meta Quest Pro: eye and face tracking

A facilitator adjusts a headset for a seated learner in a workshop room.

Every headset and device, compared

Questions

What do buyers ask about VIVE and Varjo?

Short answers, each with a link to the page that answers in full.

A learner moves inside a tracked space. A VR training scenario for what is extended reality. — A learner moves inside a tracked space.

Do we need a Varjo for a conversation scenario?

No headset of this class is needed for a conversation: the Library titles run on standalone Meta Quest and PICO. Varjo suits a scene where fine detail and exact gaze matter, a cockpit, a console, an instrument.

A guide stands among forms arranged in depth. A first person VR training scenario for what is virtual reality, seen through the headset. — Forms arranged in depth, seen through the headset.

Can the same build run standalone and tethered?

A Focus Vision runs a build standalone and streams a heavier one from a PC, so a program can start on the headset and grow into the PC version. XR builds covers how a build is scoped.