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Vive Consumer and Business Headsets Will Become Increasingly Differentiated...
After launching the consumer HTC Vive in early 2016, the company began offering a $1,200 ‘Business Edition’ version of the headset which is essentially the same system but with dedicated support, an...
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HTC Vive Tracker is Now on Sale to General Public for $99
HTC’s Vive Tacker, the Lighthouse-compatible puck that promises to get more than your hands into virtual reality with a bevy of hardware applications, is now officially available for sale to anyone...
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HTC’s New ‘VR Ad Service’ Can Tell If You’ve Looked at an Ad or Not
In-game advertisement (IGA) is a pretty divisive issue; on one hand it provides needed incentive to developers who otherwise wouldn’t have the funds, on the other hand its … advertisement, something...
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Valve Reveals More Detail on ‘Knuckles’ Motion Controllers
Valve has lifted the veil somewhat on its Knuckles controllers, first revealed as a prototype last October at the company’s annual Steam Dev Days conference. In a blog post today, Valve showed off some...
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Hands-on: ‘Chroma Lab’ is a Mesmerizing Physics Sandbox and a Simple But...
Chroma Lab is a mesmerising particle simulation and a simple but stunning VR showcase, using a custom physics engine to calculate the fluid-like behaviour of more than 100,000 particles. While there...
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HTC Registers ‘Vive Focus’ Trademark in EU & US, Likely Intended for...
HTC has submitted a new trademark application in both Europe and the US, specifically requesting the use of a new name: Vive Focus. First revealed at Google I/O 2017 developer conference, both HTC and...
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Google Buys HTC Talent & IP for $1.1 Billion, Cash to Support HTC’s Focus on...
Following recent reports of an impending deal with Google to save HTC’s struggling business, news broke late Wednesday evening that the companies reached an agreement resulting in a $1.1 billion cash...
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HTC Applies for ‘Vive Eclipse’ Trademark in New Zealand
HTC may have more than one new headset in sight than we initially thought when it registered the name ‘Vive Focus’ in the EU and US. It came to light via the Dutch publication Lets Go Digital that HTC...
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Report: HTC to Unveil Standalone VR Headset at Vive Developer Conference in...
HTC could be showing off its standalone VR headset at the company’s November 14th Vive Developer Conference (VDC) in Beijing. As reported by YiVian, the conference has recently published promotional...
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Wind Simulation Accessory for VR Headsets Hits $30k Crowdfunding Goal on Day One
Launched on November 2nd, the crowdfunding campaign for ZephVR, a VR fan accessory that “adds realistic wind at the right moments” achieved its $30,000 goal on Kickstarter in just a few hours, with 30...
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HTC Announces Consumer Availability of Vive Tracker & New Tracker Accessory...
HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve’s Lighthouse tracking standard. The company also announced North American pre-order availability of a...
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HTC’s Black Friday Sale Gets You a Free Audio Strap with Vive Purchase, Free...
HTC recently announced they’ll be sweetening the pot this Black Friday for potential Vive-owners located in North America by throwing a free Deluxe Audio Strap your way when you purchase an HTC Vive....
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Toyota’s New Experimental Humanoid Robot Uses HTC Vive for Remote Operation
Toyota recently revealed T-HR3, the company’s third-generation humanoid robot. Designed primarily as an experiment to explore new technologies to make robots more physically capable, T-HR3 demonstrates...
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Vive Hangs Onto Steam Majority Market Share as Windows VR Headsets Enter the...
According to the just-released November figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the HTC Vive has scraped its way back from nearly losing the majority market share of VR headsets in use on...
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First Look: HTC Vive Pro – The New Vive on the Block
Today at a pre-CES Vive press event, we got a look at the newly announced HTC Vive Pro, a higher-resolution headset from the company acting as a sort of ‘Vive 1.5’. Update (1/9/18): Catch our in-depth...
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Viveport Goes “VR First” in Largest Update Yet Including New ‘Home’& Content...
Viveport, HTC’s VR content store for Vive, just received a significant overhaul aimed at improving content discovery and consumption. The new ‘home’ area, which is based on spaceship platform, acts as...
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Developers Are Now Receiving HTC Vive Pro
Ostensibly the first batch of Vive Pro, HTC’s upcoming prosumer VR headset, is now landing on the doorsteps of developers. Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty:...
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Oculus Rift Surpasses HTC Vive in Steam Majority Market Share for the First Time
According to Valve’s February Steam hardware and software survey, the Oculus Rift is now the most used VR headset on the Steam platform, taking the market share of VR headsets on Steam with a near 2%...
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HTC Vive Pro to Arrive With Redesigned Link Box Featuring DisplayPort and...
HTC Vive Pro, the company’s higher resolution VR headset targeted at prosumers, isn’t on sale yet, although developers have been receiving Vive Pro as early as mid-February. While there still isn’t a...
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Oculus Rift Increases Lead Over HTC Vive in Steam Majority Market Share
Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out, and it appears Oculus Rift is still gaining momentum over HTC Vive on the Steam platform as the number one VR headset among Steam users. Each...
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