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Valve’s and HTC’s Vive virtual reality system gets consumer rollout delay

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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HTC and Valve announced today that the initial shipments of the HTC Vive VR virtual reality goggles are going to be limited, and consumer units aren’t coming until the first quarter of 2016.

That’s a setback for the fledgling virtual reality gaming market, as the HTC Vive was scheduled to be the first major commercial platform launch this November. The delay means that the launch of the Vive VR system will come right about the same time that Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual reality platform debuts early next year.

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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.