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HTC has revealed some very early sales data for its upcoming virtual reality headset the Vive. The company has said that it sold over 15,000 units in just the first ten minutes after pre-orders went live yesterday. At the US RRP of $800, that’s $12m of revenue – $1.2m per …
Read More »HTC Vive virtual reality headset priced at £689 in the UK
A second VR headset now has an official UK price. HTC has announced how the $800 it is charging for Vive in the US will translate on this side of the pond. The number it has produced? 689. By today’s exchange rate $800 is worth about 576, so that’s a …
Read More »The Brave New World of VR
The future is here – virtual reality is finally launching for consumers. And this isn’t just the launch of a new product – VR’s arrival represents the starting point of an entirely new market. As of March 28th – when the first batch of Oculus’ Rift headsets ship – we …
Read More »Setting up your room for SteamVR Vive is no easy task
And you thought making room for Kinect was tough? VentureBeat has spotted a Vive instruction manual uploaded by HTC that reveals the true extent of the effort needed by owners to set up their playing space for the full VR experience. The setup described is the one that is designed …
Read More »Elite: Dangerous shifts focus from Oculus to SteamVR
One of the Oculus Rift’s earliest and brightest talismans has turned heel and backed a rival device. Eurogamer reports that developer Frontier has confirmed that its virtual reality development efforts are now being focused on Steam’s HTC Vive headset. Indeed, Elite Dangerous hasn’t been updated to work with more recent …
Read More »HTC Vive pre-orders go live in February
One of the big three virtual reality companies has said consumers will be able to pre-order its headset next month. HTC, which has partnered with Steam to make the Vive, will begin accepting pre-orders on February 29th. Oculus Rift made a similar announcement last week, although that was just two …
Read More »HTC Vive’s ‘big technology breakthrough’ in an integrated front-facing camera
The addition of a camera system has been revealed as the technological ‘breakthrough’ that has held up the launch of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. HTC revealed just before Christmas that the Vive would miss its 2015 launch date due to what was described as a very big technological …
Read More »‘Technological breakthrough’ leads to HTC Vive delay
Current design for Valve and HTC's headset scrapped, device due in April 2016
Read More »Valve’s HTC Vive VR won’t hit shelves until 2016
The virtual reality revolution has been delayed. With both PlayStation VR (formerly known as Project Morpheus) and Oculus Rift due out in the first half of 2016, Valve’s HTC-made Vive headset stood as the only of the big players scheduled for a limited release in 2015. With just days left …
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