Looking back on HTC Vive’s first year
One year ago HTC Vive started arriving for buyers. It was $200 more expensive than its chief competition, the Oculus Rift, but the headset...
HTC Vive marks first anniversary with a one-day $100 price cut
The HTC Vive virtual reality headset debuted a year ago today, and HTC is marking the occasion with some new offers and deeper discounts....
HTC adds 30 more companies to its virtual reality accelerator
HTC is announcing that 30 new startups have joined the second batch for its global virtual reality accelerator program. Maker of the HTC Vive...
Why VR vs. AR is an obsolete argument
Over the past year, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology have become hot topics, particularly when it comes to how they stack...
CloudGate Studio lets you kick a dinosaur in VR with HTC’s Vive Tracker
I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459...
Vive Tracker could lead to an ecosystem of ‘hundreds’ of accessories
During UploadVR’s interview with HTC’s president of Vive in China Alvin Graylin last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on...
GDC 2017’s 9 biggest stories on augmented and virtual reality
With each passing year, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) becomes more and more important to the VR industry, and 2017’s iteration was no different. There have been a frankly ridiculous amount of announcements over the past six days and we wouldn’t blame you if you’d missed a few of them.
HTC’s newest virtual reality games include Ping-Pong in VR
HTC kicked off the Game Developers Conference with demos of new apps, including a VRSports app that lets you play Ping-Pong in virtual reality...
HTC’s Vive Tracker will turn any object into a VR peripheral
HTC said that its Vive Tracker, a sensing device that turns any object into a VR peripheral, will go on sale for developers on...
SuperData: VR Hardware will earn $3.6 billion in 2017
Virtual reality is ready to grow. Research firm SuperData released a new report predicting that VR hardware will earn $3.6 billion in 2017. That would be an increase of 142 percent over the previous year. It expects VR hardware to reach $17.8 billion by 2020.