New HTC Vive video shows handsome people looking silly in VR

The Oculus Rift is opening up for preorders tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean HTC is going to let you forget about its new Vive development kit.

As part of the promotion for the new Vive Pre, the name for the second development kit, HTC unleashed a new promotional video for the device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This marketing push definitely focuses on what the experience is like by having real actors surrounded by computer-generated graphics that simulate what it might feel like to use the Vive. As always, the VR participants are gorgeous humans with lean bodies, and — again, as always, they look pretty dumb. This is another example of VR companies struggling to show off their new tech in a way that outsiders can understand, and it’s a problem the industry will likely have to overcome if it’s really going to reach $150 billion in sales by 2020 like tech advisor Digi-Capital predicts.