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HTC says the upcoming Fallout 4 game for Vive could be the headset’s system seller. Although the firm doesn’t believe in exclusivity in VR – and encourages developers to create games for Oculus and PlayStation VR as well – it is excited about the impact Fallout 4 may have on …
Read More »HTC to launch Vive Business Edition
Virtual reality is coming to the corporate sector as HTC reveals it is releasing a Business Edition of its Vive headset. This special edition is available from this month in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and France only. The headset will then be released worldwide in the coming weeks”, HTC …
Read More »Front Defense is HTC’s first internally developed game
VR platform holder HTC is making its debut as a games developer with new VR title Front Defence. The title will be shown off at Taiwan’s Computex trade show next week, VentureBeat reports. The title is a tower defence game with players holding out against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. …
Read More »HTC moves into VR development with Vive debut
Internal 'Creative' team working on Front Defense, as well as non-game experiences
Read More »Oculus blocks Rift game workaround, creator responds by bypassing DRM completely
Revive previously allowed players to run any Rift exclusive on HTC Vive, with latest version removing the need to legitimately own games
Read More »HTC launches $100m Vive X VR accelerator
Hubs in San Francisco, Beijing and Taipei to offer help from experts, investment, mentorship and other support services
Read More »HTC Vive Steam VR gets $800 price tag
$800. That’s the amount it will take to buy HTC’s Steam VR Vive headset on launch day. It’s a staggering amount of money, even surpassing Oculus Rift’s at-the-time astonishing $600 RRP. That, incidentally, translated to 500 in the UK, so if Vive follows the same pattern we could be looking …
Read More »Independent VR platform Transport raises $25m in funding
Distribution network aims to offer a single route to market for all of the major virtual reality headsets
Read More »Latest HTC Vive Pre dev kit includes front-facing camera
‘Big technology breakthrough’ blends physical and virtual reality
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 …
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