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 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.
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 launches first Ready Player One VR apps
In just under one year’s time, HTC’s VR partnership with Steven Spielberg’s movie Ready Player One has gone from promise to (virtual) reality. HTC...
HTC stealthily releases Vive Tracker 2018 for $99
Roughly one year after releasing the original Vive Tracker to developers and less than six months after the consumer release, HTC has quietly started to...
HTC will sell Vive Pro VR headset for $800, cuts price of Vive to $500
HTC said today it will sell the Vive Pro virtual reality headset for $800, with global preorders starting now. And it will also cut...
HTC raises Viveport subscription to $9 per month and adds more VR titles
HTC, maker of the Vive virtual reality headset for the PC, is raising the price for its subscriptions to the VR apps and games...
HTC rolls out Viveport VR and Vive Video user interface updates
HTC announced today at a press event ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show that it’s launching a new browsing experience for its Viveport...
HTC Vive will share 100% of holiday app revenues with developers
HTC may be selling its Pixel smartphone team to Google, but it’s keeping its HTC Vive virtual reality headset business. And today, the Taiwanese...
HTC opens up the code for its VR Vive Tracker
HTC is releasing tutorials and project files for studio-created Vive Tracker projects as a new resource for VR developers. The company is hoping that...