HTC Vive will help develop VirtualLink connection

HTC joins the VirtualLink consortium with its Vive division. The manufacturer says it will help with the further development of the standard that is intended to connect VR glasses with one USB-C cable.

VirtualLink was announced in July as a partnership between Nvidia, Oculus, Valve, AMD and Microsoft. This represented all major makers of VR headsets for PCs, with the exception of HTC. Now the Taiwanese manufacturer has announced it will join the consortium.

HTC will help with the further development of the new standard. There are currently no VR headsets that can use VirtualLink, but Nvidia has already equipped its RTX video cards with the new connection.

VirtualLink is an alternate mode of usb-c, which combines four hbr3 displayport lanes, which is good for a bandwidth of 32.4Gbit/s. That is a doubling compared to the hdmi 1.3 connection that current headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift use. VirtualLink also offers two lanes for USB 3.1 Gen2 data transfer and can supply 27 watts of power.