HTC will be showing off an unusual mobile virtual reality headset in the next few months, according to CNET. In an interview, chief financial officer Chia-lin Chang said that HTC would reveal a VR product compatible with the new U Ultra smartphone, and that it would launch by the end of 2017. “We have a good plan in terms of combining mobility with VR,” Chang said. “Vive is very top end, and in the coming months you’ll see our plans in terms of mobility and VR, and it’s not a phone slapped onto a headset … It’d be a different thing.”

HTC’s best-known foray into VR is the Vive headset, but it has previously shown signs of interest in mobile VR as well. It launched a phone-based VR app store called Viveport M in China last year, and a…

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