VR’s next goal: Quickly winning over new users
Headset makers are actively trying to make VR easier for new users to experience -- quickly.
HTC Vive Wireless Adapter will cost $300 with a September release date
HTC's Vive Wireless Adapter will ship on September 24 for $300, including a free two-month Viveport trial subscription. Preorders will start on September 5.
HTC answers ‘death of VR’ stories with record Vive sales
A blog post from HTC's Vive team says that "news of the so-called death of VR comes once a year and is greatly exaggerated," then rebuts the claims with a surprising new detail: Vive headsets recently sold out while experiencing record-breaking sales.
Amazon will sell HTC Viveport apps and open Prime Day VR kiosks (updated)
Amazon will offer HTC Viveport titles through its online store, and open VR kiosks in 10 locations across India -- the latter to promote Prime Day.
ProBeat: HTC should kill its phones and focus on VR
Let’s talk about HTC. The struggling Taiwanese consumer electronics company announced more layoffs this week: 1,500 jobs, or around 25 percent of its workforce....
HTC Vive’s Libraries Program will bring VR headsets to 110 libraries
Almost a year ago to the date Oculus announced an initiative to bring VR headsets to 90 different California libraries. Now, HTC has announced the Vive Libraries...
E3 2018: Watch how Serious Sam VR works with a Gatling gun
Chipmaker DisplayLink partnered with HTC for quite the demonstration of wireless VR at E3 2018. DisplayLink is powering HTC’s upcoming official wireless adapter for...
HTC’s Vive wireless adapter claims up to 3 hours of untethered VR play
Announced in January as a high-tech way to free HTC’s Vive and Vive Pro virtual reality headsets from their tethering wires, the Vive Wireless...
HTC Vive Focus gets smartphone integration and better battery life
HTC’s standalone VR headset Vive Focus launched in China last year, and it’s getting some neat software upgrades ahead of its anticipated global release....
VR developers: Stop shipping glitchy, half-baked games
On the 1-10 spectrum of “game developers should be able to sell completely broken demos” to “every game should be thoroughly vetted before release...