Snap on the HTC VIVE Cosmos External Tracking Faceplate to your HTC VIVE Cosmos VR Headset (sold separately) to enable up to 1000 square feet of external tracking. With SteamVR Tracking, your HTC VIVE Cosmos VR Headset will be able to track your movements with precision.
Please note that the HTC Vive Cosmos VR Headset and Base Stations are required and sold separately. This faceplate support both the VIVE Base Station and SteamVR Base Station 2.0.
This faceplate supports VIVE Controllers and VIVE Controllers (2018) (both sold separately).
You cannot use this faceplate with the VIVE Cosmos Controllers.
Shanelle Douglas (verified owner) –
So you bought a Vive Cosmos and you’ve been using it for a few months, now you want to get full body tracking and an increase in accuracy? This is what you need, this is the Cosmos’s ‘final form’. Your Cosmos will no longer have its loud little fan running, it won’t be as hot as the sun, the tracking will be fantastic and SteamVR can mostly take the reigns instead of the (pretty bad) HTC console. Yes you will need Vive Wands or Index Knuckles Yes you will need 1.0 or 2.0 base stations. No factoring buying new controllers and base stations along with nearly $200 for the face plate does not make financial sense in the land of used Valve Indexes or even just a used Vive Elite. I’ve upgraded two Vive Cosmos’s with these faceplates now and the only way it made sense was to buy someone’s entire old Vive setup for less than $300 used to get the controllers and base stations, so if you do that its either a wash or a boon depending on the market but it makes sense. How much should this (very thin and fragile) bit of plastic and some sensors probably cost? Like $99-75 or less, its way over priced, HTC dropped the ball hard on this one and its keeping them from pushing Cosmos units and accessory units. It comes with a wider strap for going over your head, it offers maybe marginal improvement over the thinner strap, its a confusing addition? 4 stars because yeah it does what you want it to do, it’ll turn your Cosmos into an Elite Cosmos (so long as you also get base stations and controllers) but the price of it is incredibly silly and that’s not B&H’s problem, that HTC’s problem. After you use this, the only way to enable the outside camera view is to change a setting in the Vive Console to map the blue button on the headset to the ‘outside’ view, keep in mind it has to turn the cameras on each time you want to do so, so there’s like a 3-5 second delay every time you want the outside view without flipping up the headset. Buy it, works great, Cosmos is a great headset for the money, tell HTC to stop pricing themselves out of sales, its like they hate money.