HTC has teamed up with a company called Holoride to let you use its Vive Flow VR headset to transform your car into an amusement park — without making you carsick. The idea is that when you don the headset, you’ll appear inside a roller coaster or other experience, but the motion will match up perfectly with the movement of the car.
Holoride is backed in part by Audi with the aim of creating “an entirely new media category for passengers by connecting Extended Reality (XR) content with data points from the vehicle in real time,” according to the press release. The Vive Flow, meanwhile, is a lightweight (189 gram or 0.42 pounds), $499 VR headset built specifically for entertainment and wellness.
It’s not just amusement parks you’ll be able to visit virtually, but also “virtual worlds” along with 2D content on a “virtual, motion-synchronized cinema screen,” Holoride notes. In…
