Despite 2015 promise, HTC Vive’s community launch still doesn’t have a release date

It’s starting to feel less and less likely that even the earliest of adopters will have a chance to get one of the big PC-based virtual reality devices in their home before the end of the year

HTC, the Taiwanese hardware manufacturer, is staying quiet about its Vive SteamVR device. It hasn’t shared anything new about the motion-tracking head-mounted display since revealing in August that it needed to delay the full consumer release into 2016. But at that time, the company did not slam the door on 2015 completely. HTC and its partner, Valve, which is responsible for much of the technology powering the Vive, said that they would have a “limited quantity” of Vive devices for sale “later this year.” When we asked for an update about those units, HTC said it had nothing new to share. We’ve also asked Valve for a comment, but it has not provided a response.