HTC Vive Will be $800 and Arrives in April
Costing $200 more than the Oculus Rift headset, the virtual reality headset HTC Vive will cost $800. It will be available in April, just a month later than the Rift. The Mobile World Congress announced the price of the HTC Vive and also that it will be available for pre-order on February 29th.
Costing $200 more than the Oculus Rift headset, the virtual reality headset HTC Vive will cost $800. It will be available in April, just a month later than the Rift.
The Mobile World Congress announced the price of the HTC Vive and also that it will be available for pre-order on February 29th. Included in the Consumer Edition along with the headset are a link box, wireless controllers, two base stations and Vive earbuds. VP of HTC Dan O’Brien claims that Vive does things that other headset on the market can’t do.
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The big win for Vive is; their Consumer Edition providing controllers and Rift having a Xbox One controller and remote control. Rift won’t be selling their touch controllers for some months, and O’Brien considers this way of selling less compelling.
Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption are free with the Vive, and March’s Game Developers Conference will see more announced. Valve’s Steam Platform will sell the games – so another win for the Vive.
After being tested by GameSpot, the conclusion was that they are superior to any other device on the market when it comes to virtual reality. Playstation VR is also being launched by Sony later in the year although the cost has not yet been announced.
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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