Share Unlike its forebear, the Vive Cosmos had a very shaky start in 2019, never rising to the same heights whilst struggling against rivals Oculus Rift S and Valve Index. But HTC Vive has continued to roll out improvements for the headset, the latest arriving this week, unlocking more PC performance. Vive Cosmos has received several updates to ensure a smooth virtual reality (VR) experience such as an upgrade to DirectX 12 for NVIDIA GPUs which the company claim: “gives your computer’s CPU an average of 15-20% improvement.” Latency is always a concern when it comes to VR, if it’s poor then a videogame is likely to get uncomfortable. So the update has: “optimized frame timings offering 10% better latency.” VR content should also look a little better because HTC Vive: “refactored our runtime which improves your computer’s graphics processing by 10%.” All of which should mean a better VR experience even for lower-end VR-capable machines.