HTC Vive reveals standalone VR headset, cooperation app for the business HTC Vive has released a handful of enterprise-focused items, with a brand-new standalone “& ldquo; mobile & rdquo; VR headset, developer tools and a collaboration app that promises to connect remote employees.The Taiwanese company last week announced that the Vive Focus head-mounted display will now deliver in the U.S., following a launch in China earlier this year.The Vive Focus is a standalone headset that operates without a PC connection, unlike the business's connected Vive Pro gadget. It features comparable specifications to the & ldquo; professional-grade & rdquo; Vive Pro, with 2880-x-1600-pixel resolution. Unlike other mobile VR headsets, the Vive Focus does not require a smartphone be placed; it depends on embedded hardware-- powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chip-- supports a 110-degree field of vision and lasts approximately three hours on a single charge.HTC is targeting the gadget squarely at company clients and is most likely to underwhelm customers, in part since of its price tag.The Focus will cost $599 on its own, with two & ldquo; Benefit & rdquo; bundles offering services such as two-year warranty, repairs and one-day response customer assistance, priced at “$149.99 and$199.99. That & rsquo; s considerably higher than competing Oculus 'Quest gadget, which ships next year with comparable specifications for $399-- though Facebook-ownedOculus appears to be less focused on offering to business.Enterprise sales have been a growing focus for the VR market, as consumer sales stagnate. Last year –, Oculus revealed a business-focused bundle for its Rift headset, with devoted consumer support…

Windows 10 rollout snafu: Day 37 Thirty-seven days after Microsoft withdrew the Windows 10 October 2018 Update from all distribution, the Redmond, Wash. company has yet to restart delivery.The hold-up has no precedent in Windows 10 and has actually gone on considerably longer than instances in prior editions when updates, the majority of them security repairs, needed to be pulled and then later re-released. Microsoft debuted the fall function upgrade, likewise understood as 1809 in the firm's yymm format, on Oct. 2. Four days later on -Oct. 6 -it retracted the release by tugging it from the Windows Update service and manual download sites, and alerting users who had actually gotten it to toss the disk image in the garbage. The factor: Some users -Microsoft said 1/100th of 1% -reported that the upgrade erased all files in numerous folders, consisting of the essential Files and Pictures directories.On Oct. 9, Microsoft informed those who had set up the upgrade to remain off their PCs and to call a toll-freenumber for help in potentially recuperating some of the erased files.( Computerworld chosen Oct. 6 as the start date for the delay due to the fact that it was then that Microsoft halted dissemination.)Other stops briefly-Microsoft's term for upgrade or update stoppages -have actually been much shorter, with the company usually presenting a re-releasewithin a handful of days. For example, a 2008 security patch implied to plug a hole in Windows'application of Bluetooth was re-issued in 9 days. Earlier that exact same year, Microsoft took eight days to come up with…

IDG Factor Network: HP design innovation on PCs and printers will infect houses and workplaces My first portable PC (you’& rsquo;d never call it a laptop computer ), was made by Panasonic. It cost something like $7K in today’& rsquo; s dollars (permitting inflation), weighed 35 pounds and consisted of a thermal printer. I also work from home so unlike my office-oriented peers, part of what I consider when I gear up or update my home office is the printer —-- despite the fact that it’& rsquo; s no longer integrated with my laptop computer (the good news is). For much of my profession, laptop computer design has actually largely been driven by one of two factors. Corporate purchasers who had no taste (and led to a long duration of time when hardware design could best be described as butt-ugly), or Apple, who tended to put form over function leading to pretty but frequently undependable or fragile items. (My first Apple laptop fell off a chair onto carpet and broke both depend upon its screen, something I’& rsquo;d never ever seen occur before or considering that.) As the PC market has enhanced, HP and many of its peers have actually moved back to develop as a differentiator. The result has been two really intriguing new products: the Spectre Folio, a leather-clad 2-in-1 that pulls from the past to create a more ergonomic natural product; and the Tango printer, which is designed to conceal in the house or office up until needed.But I believe we arejust at the start…