HTC today teased what’s confirmed to be the company’s next VR headset, something the Vive-creator says will be “something big… we midpoint small.”

There’s not much to go on for now, only a tweet which shows a piece of the headset in question with the subtitle “Go small or go home.” No name, no price, no release window. Bupkis.

Is it an image of a pancake lens, which many VR headset creators like Meta and Lenovo are now using in place of traditional Fresnel lenses to lower overall bulk? HTC’s unstudied VR content device Vive Flow already uses one.

Is it an exterior shot of a facial plate, possibly in a bid to towards like a pair of sunglasses like… well… Vive Flow? Your guess is as good as ours at this point.

Turning up the unrelatedness on the image reveals one thing, that’s for sure: a taunting message congratulating us on our failure to sus out increasingly salient info.

Image courtesy HTC

And although we’re still hoping to see something from HTC that brings real consumer competition to Meta, the accent on the headset’s size as the main selling point could suggest the release of flipside unstudied VR viewing device like Flow.

In any case, the visitor says it’s learned from mistakes in the past, and is “putting those learnings into this headset.” It’s moreover some pretty user-friendly timing too, as Meta is only days yonder from holding its yearly Connect developer conference, which this year will likely see the reveal of the heavily-leaked Quest Pro (née Project Cambria).

Vive Flow was largely criticized for not providing much increasingly of a practical wits vastitude first-generation mobile VR devices like Gear VR, Oculus Go, or Google Daydream. It moreover needs an external power source to function, which is largest than having a front-heavy headset, but still a snooping among some owners. Maybe the Taiwan-based manufacturer is going for a real standalone format this time?

HTC has been known to do successive reveals of its headsets in the past, so we’ll be pursuit withal with the company’s Twitter worth in the meantime to find out just what the visitor has in store.