HTC's Vive Pro
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HTC Vive Pro hands-on demo — VR hits the restart button

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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HTC is starting to sell the Vive Pro virtual reality headset for $800 today as a new and improved way to visit virtual reality.

The previous HTC Vive headset now costs $500. It’s still a hefty price to escape from reality, and it doesn’t include the cost of a fairly beefy game computer or laptop that you’ll need to power the Vive Pro. This is why VR is off to a relatively slow start, despite some fantastic public relations the industry is getting out of the launch of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.