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LifewireSturdy hardwareNative support for Steam VRSix degrees of freedomExcellent, accurate trackingExpensiveDisplay suffers from screen door effectUnwieldy controllersWhile the HTC Vive is expertly built, it lacks the ergonomics and prici...
Sturdy hardware, Native support for Steam VR, Six degrees of freedom, Excellent, accurate tracking...
Expensive, Display suffers from screen door effect, Unwieldy controllers...
A great headset, but not worth full price.The HTC Vive is a fine headset, with excellent tracking and durable build. However, its screen is beginning to feel dated since it's three years now, and so are its controllers. For $500, you can buy an equally go...
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The HTC VIVE Wireless Adapter is a bit of technology that changes the overall feeling of reality in a room-scale VR experience. This is an add-on to the original HTC VIVE and the HTC VIVE Pro. This adapter isn't required to enter virtual reality, but it'l...
Makes VIVE and VIVE Pro VR more wireless, After setup, connection is automatic, Hardware fits precisely, works as intended, Adds no restrictions to VR, only adds new degree of freedom...
Setup requires some technical knowledge, Prevents use of 3rd-party over-head strap headphones, Adds more bulk to headset...
As it is with any sort of unique system such as this, it's difficult to judge its worth compared to any other device. That's mostly because there really isn't a VR experience out there quite like this – not on this level. In the HTC VIVE PRO especially, w...
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The problem with VR is… well, VR has more than one issue. The biggest one is that it's still too expensive. But OK. It's a luxury. People spend a lot of money on luxury goods. That shouldn't hold it back. OK. Well how about these problems: the software i...
I still love VR when I'm in it, but I also think that owning a VR headset is a bit of a hassle. You are often dealing with lighthouses and babysitting USB ports and 20-foot cables, and I don't think that it's really an improvement to swap out some of thos...
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Finally: wireless, high fidelity VR is here. And it's amazing. The HTC Vive official wireless adaptor is out now, compatible with the Vive and Vive Pro.It doesn't come cheap though. The official wireless adaptor is $300 for the original Vive, or $360 for...
This is how VR should be, but cutting-edge technology comes at a price. Unless you have the room to take advantage of it, you might be better off saving for a next generation headset...
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Exactly what we've been waiting for.Ever since the dawn of cutting-edge VR headsets, folks have been clamoring for a way to wirelessly enter virtual worlds without the restriction that cords and tethered headsets impose. While all the major VR headsets st...
True wireless freedom, Works with either Vive HMD, Easy setup, No image quality reduction versus being wired, No noticeable added input latency, Battery pack design makes for an easy swap-out, Headset doesn't feel any heavier...
More expensive for Vive Pro owners, Battery is not hot-swappable, Image quality could be affected by slower CPUs...
HTC launched the Vive as the only VR HMD with roomscale support and proper motion controllers over two years ago, and while their competitors have caught up over that time, they've introduced a killer accessory that once again puts them ahead in the realm...
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Since its inception, the HTC Vive's biggest advantage over its competitors was the roomscale VR concept, one that actually put you in a life-size area that you could not only walk around in, but duck, lean, roll and jump in, behaving exactly like real lif...
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Photo by Scott WebbVirtual reality (VR) produces a computer-generated environment–complete with realistic sights, sounds and other sensations–which a person can explore by wearing a special kind of headset and, in some cases, using certain props. Basica...
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We had a look at the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 last year and we were left unimpressed. It was an amazing piece of technology, but software issues, screen door effect and overall lack of readiness meant the DK2 was a bit of a struggle. We did end the q...
We'll start with the good, and when it's working, it's an excellent and immersive experience. The headset is not heavy, the cables do not really get in your way and once the tracking units are set up, you can forget about them. The SteamVR is an excellent...
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The HTC VIVE Tracker is a new tool for the VR universe – an extra bit of zazz that opens up new doors and dimensions. Over the past few days I've had the opportunity to test out the HTC VIVE Tracker with the relatively limited set of games it already work...
Tracking just as good as original controllers, Enable tracking of ALL the things, Most games already tracking are amazing...
Size is still ever-so-slightly cumbersome, Price is a bit prohibitive, Lacking a diverse array of games...
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The promise of virtual reality has always been to escape the bounds of your living room or office and enjoy an entirely new world where the same rules don't apply. High-end VR headsets like the HTC Vive have largely delivered on that promise, but if you'v...
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I'm going to keep this review short and sweet because honestly, you need to be playing Hurl VR rather than reading about me having played it. Available for the HTC Vive (sorry Rift owners),this wonderfully unique game blurs the lines of sports and puzzle...
Clean sharp visuals, Realistic physics, Great replay potential...
Needs more levels, Over too soon...
A truly unique hybrid of sports and puzzle with immersive VR...
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The Vive is the undisputed winner of our test, providing the overall best VR experience by far. It accurately tracks your movement, exceeding the performance of the Rift even when an additional third sensor is added. It's exceptionally comfortable to wear...
Highly interactive, incredibly immersive, comfortable...
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The Vive is the undisputed champion of our test and is the best bet for someone who wants the top VR experience on the market today. It is a decently pricey setup that needs a powerful and expensive PC to run properly, but delivered an unmatched performan...
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When Oculus announced a dramatic price cut for their Rift headset a little over a month ago (down to $399 during the summer, $499 afterwards), there was much speculation about how long HTC could maintain the Vive's much higher $799 price point. It turns o...
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Virtual reality is a mind-blowing experience that will make your jaw drop. The ability to escape the real world and get immersed in an imaginary, enhanced reality seems like something out of science fiction. Virtual reality is here, though, and it's becom...
The HTC Vive is clearly the top VR headset available. However, its price and requirement of an expensive gaming PC may be deal breakers for some. If money isn't an issue for you, the Vive is a phenomenal device that everyone should experience at some poin...
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BladeShield is a tremendously fun and totally addicting VR arcade game that turns your play space into a futurist space station and your Vive controllers into any combination of shield and light sword. The premise is simple. Using the buttons on each of t...
Fun, precise controls, Addictive arcade gameplay, Great bargain price...
Not much substance, Can get repetitive...
Tremendously fun and totally addicting...
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You could say re-reviewing the HTC Vive eight months after launch doesn't make a lot of sense: Its hardware hasn't changed at all and its gaming library hasn't seen a dramatic overhaul. From another perspective, though, those are precisely the reasons to...
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The virtual reality phenomenon seems to be the new trend in the PC gaming world. VR demos were everywhere at the latest industry shows worldwide, and manufacturers are slapping the VR-Ready tag on anything that made the requirement lists of the Oculus Rif...
So far, the general consensus was that experiencing quality VR content requires expensive hardware. Consumers with enough disposable income, and die-hards wanting to be at the cutting edge of the technology, might not think twice about the few thousand dollars...
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Recently, we got the chance to take a look at the HTC Vive virtual reality headset for a three week test run. With quite a few virtual reality headset options out on the market right now, we were interested in finding out what exactly sets the HTC Vive ap...
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Disclosure: GameCrate is a part of Newegg.com, but we think this news is worth reporting regardless.If you've wanted to get your hands on an HTC Vive now's your best chance yet, because the most advanced VR experience currently on the market is now availa...
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For everyone but a few select politicians, it was no huge surprise that when the UK withdrew from the European Union the value of the British pound was going to fluctuate in a somewhat downward direction. Unfortunately, if you're a UK gamer who was planni...
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It's been two months since I wrote my Oculus Rift review and since that time I have spent way too much time neglecting the real world in favor of a virtual one. Just about the time I was going to get that VR monkey off my back (and headset off my face) th...
Easy interactive installation, Lots of existing content, Seamless integration with Steam, Motion controls, Room Scale experiences...
High admission price, Needs semidedicated gaming space, Lots of hardware to position/conceal...
Cutting edge game tech for those who want to live their games rather than play them.
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Never would I have thought that I'd be covering PC games, and now, even hardware. Since I was a child, console gaming was what surrounded me, from my brother's Atari, to our NES. In the early 90's, my dad got us a Tandy PC that must've cost $3000 easy. Al...
The HTC is one hell of a piece of hardware. I was always a skeptic of VR due to early iterations many years ago causing motion sickness and even headaches. I'm happy to report to not experience any of that with the exception of “The Solus Project” becau...
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It almost seemed like the HTC Vive came out of nowhere when it was announced just a year ago. It all began to make sense once we learned that it had been developed in collaboration with Valve. It was not just some random product rushed out the door. It w...
SteamVR platform, Room-scale VR, Good quality & decent comfort, Picture quality, Field of view...
Takes up a lot of space, No built-in sound, Heavy & bulky cable, Resolution, Price...
I was skeptical when I unpacked HTC Vive after having reviewed Oculus Rift for a week or so. My first impression was that it felt unfinished and clunky compared to the streamlined and user-friendly Oculus Rift. However, after two to three days I started t...
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The future is here. It's called the HTC Vive and it is incredible. It is the most exciting piece of tech I've used in a while and it's not even close. Let's back up a little bit though.I've been a big fan of the Oculus Rift and it's goal of bringing of VR...
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It's hard to quantify and define the experience of virtual reality to an outside party. Words like “presence” and “immersion” come to mind, but don't capture the effect of what it's truly like to lose yourself in a mystical world, and the sensation of pul...
Room-scale VR, Open-source market, Excellent headset and controllers, Nice quality-of-life features...
Demanding on real estate, Currently lacking in replayable experiences...
The HTC Vive offers an experience unlike any other, at the price of your real estate and patience. Though lacking in meaningful experiences now, the tools are in the right place. As far as early adopter tech goes, this is certainly the headset for a VR en...
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A few weeks back, we gave you our initial take on the retail-ready HTC Vive virtual reality kit. While we were able to explain the Vive's specifications, setup, configuration, and give some opinions on the experience, at that point, we hadn't had the kit...
Highly Accurate Tracking, Excellent Controllers, Large, Room Scale Capabilities, Good Software Library At Such An Early Stage...
Bulky Cables Coming From Headset, Pricey...
The promise of true, immersive virtual reality has come and gone a few times over the years. And though each generation was better than the last – as you'd expect – VR has never really caught on with consumers. Whether or not this latest wave of products...
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The HTC Vive has become such an important focus of the company's business, that there are even rumors of a branch spin-off recently, but is the Vive truly worth more dedicated focus?Virtual Reality is not just difficult to show off in a video review, but...
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Tron's early 1980's release and subsequent cult following was the first glimpse of what a virtual reality future could look like, one where people step into the world of computers and virtual spaces instead of living completely in the real world. Since th...
Absolutely everything in the box you could need, The most complete VR experience around, Built-in Steam support, Full OpenVR support, Comfortable, adjustable headset, Camera on the front is brilliant, Incredibly versatile and comfortable controllers, Almo...
Cost prohibitive, Requires a pretty beastly PC to run, Face pads can get sweaty and gross, Large wire coming out of the head unit may get annoying, Final Thoughts, While it sounds silly to say that being “there” somehow magically makes the same old strate...
While it sounds silly to say that being “there” somehow magically makes the same old strategy game or shooter feel new again, the way it changes your perspective both literally and figuratively is really what does it. It's truly difficult to explain ju...
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Virtual Reality is now getting billions of dollars in funding, and things are moving fast. The HTC VICE is one of the two main options that PC users have, the other being the Oculus Rift. We have used the HTC VIVE for two weeks, tried dozens of VR apps, a...
Most people old enough to have known past VR flops came to “VR 2.0” this with a good dose of skepticism. The early Rift demos in 2013 provided a proof of concept, and things kept getting better from there on. In 2015, HTC announced that it would build the...
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Without a doubt, the HTC Vive is the most immersive VR headset you can buy right now, but that doesn't mean we recommend it wholesale. Though the included motion controllers and whole-room option add a new dimension to the experience, we ultimately found...
Sharp and incredibly immersive VR, Head tracking is superior to Oculus Rift, Whole-room VR is impressive, Motion controllers work well...
Expensive, Tricky setup, Uncomfortable to wear for long periods...
The HTC Vive offers the best in-home VR experience yet, but it's too unwieldy to truly enjoy for extended play sessions. In this article: av, gaming, gear, htc, htcvive, MiniReview, review, video, virtualreality, vive, vr By Engadget staff @enga...
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When the biggest platform in PC gaming teams up with an established Taiwanese manufacturer to produce a virtual reality headset with fully motion tracked controllers, you stand up and take note. The HTC Vive for Steam VR redefines gaming, and more besides...
If you can afford the headset and the inevitable PC upgrade required, you won't regret buying an HTC Vive. Gaming – computing even – has changed forever...
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For decades, we've been told that virtual reality would one day transport us to alien worlds where we could perform incredible feats we'd only dream of doing in the real world.We got a taste of that long-promised dream last month, with the release of Face...
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Virtual reality has always been an expensive hobby. Even in 1995, when the only VR option was the Nintendo Virtual Boy, it was hard to justify spending money on the device. It was uncomfortable to wear. It didnt have any good games. And it was a little a...
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It's 2:30 a.m, I'm in my bedroom, and I am under attack. Blue and red orbs hurtle towards me and I throw up my arms to deflect them, swaying back and forth to the angry snare hits in Led Zeppelin's Achilles Last Stand . My actual arms—not pressing button...
Room-scale VR is incredible at enhancing experiences, Base stations accurately track an area up to 15ft x 15ft, Vive controllers borrow liberally from Steam Controller, with excellent results...
Headset design not as comfortable as Oculus Rift, Needs lots of space to take full advantage. Space most people don't have, SteamVR, at least at launch, is unstable and crash-prone...
Adam Patrick Murray Video games have been one long journey towards realism. First, it was more realistic 2D graphics. Then realistic 3D graphics, from the earliest days of ray-tracing (think Atari's Star Wars arcade game) to the PS1/N64 to the incr...
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I tested the HTC Vive Pre development hardware just last month, and now the final, consumer-ready version of the Vive is here. HTC's $799 virtual reality (VR) system is expensive, but it includes the works: a headset, motion controllers, and even external...
Immersive experience, Includes motion controllers and external sensors for whole-room VR...
Expensive, Tethered headset makes whole-room VR tricky...
The HTC Vive is the most comprehensive virtual reality system available, and also the most expensive...
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The virtual reality wars have officially begun. Last week the consumer version of the Oculus Rift finally started shipping, and now HTC's $800 Vive headset is ready to roll. It's a collaboration between HTC and Valve , and it's also a showcase for Valve's...
Sharp and incredibly immersive VR, Head tracking is superior to Oculus Rift, Whole-room VR is impressive, Motion controllers work well...
Expensive, Tricky setup, Uncomfortable to wear for long periods...
The HTC Vive offers the best in-home VR experience yet, but it's too unwieldy to truly enjoy for extended play sessions. Hardware #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-996506 .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-996506, #postcontentcontai...
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For the past five days, I've spent nearly as much time in virtual reality as real reality. My calves ache and my neck is sore, but all in all I've had a pretty good time. I've been using the Vive, an ambitious new virtual reality system created by HTC and...
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Naturally, room-scale VR presents a unique set of challenges. There's safety, to start. HTC addresses this through the Chaperone, a system designed to keep you from unknowingly walking into real-world objects. The peace of mind this provides makes it easi...
Incomparable experience, 6DoF controllers, Roomscale tracking, Comfort, Intuitive interface...
Price, Bulky cable, Hard on neck and back, Potential tripping hazard...
HTC's Vive provides an experience you can't get with any other product. It is expensive, but in our view that cost is justified...
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"And now it's virtual insanity, forget your virtual reality." - JamiroquaiThe next phase of virtual reality is here. The Valve-backed HTC Vive headset ($799) is the total package — delivering a variety of thrills and chills via its room-tracking technolog...
Room-tracking technology is eerily accurat, Smooth graphics with little latenc, Touch controllers are easy to use and highly adaptabl, Large library of games...
Requires a lot of space and electrical outlets to us, No built-in audi, SteamVR Interface can be difficult to navigate...
I took a walk through the future, and I want more. Instead of rooting you to a fixed point in your room and wrapping a 360-view around you, the $799 HTC Vive lets you stand up and explore it. Valve's Lightroom technology allows you to map out a space that...
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When you strap on HTC's incredible new Vive virtual reality headset, you're transported into digital landscapes that you don't just watch. You walk through them, jump around them and reach out to grab them.Step 1 of the Vive's setup ought to read, “Buy a...
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Virtual Reality is finally coming of age, and with Vive, HTC and Valve believe they have the finest and most flexible interpretation of next-generation gaming. A surprise announcement just a year ago, Vive aims to out-immerse Oculus' Rift by spreading VR...
Not all virtual reality is created equal. While Oculus' Rift, Sony's PlayStation VR, and HTC's Vive all fall under the VR banner - not to mention Samsung's Gear VR, Google's Cardboard, and a host of other options - the actual experience can vary greatly.W...
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UPDATE: The official HTC Vive site has reverted the official system requirements back to the R9 290, so it appears that the change to the 280 may have been an error. We'll continue to monitor the situation and wait for word from HTC before we make an offi...
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Make sure to check out our ongoing VR coverage.“I was going to wait a few generations to buy a VR system. But after trying the Vive, I'm buying it now.” Said Gary G. after shooting zombies for five minutes. He had the biggest smile and a clear sense of wo...
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At CES 2016 , HTC and Valve unveiled a new version of their Vive VR headset, the HTC Vive Pre, with a lighter frame and new front-mounted camera so you can see what's happening in the real world. I spent a few minutes with it on my head staring at a blue...
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The HTC Vive is a virtual reality headset developed in cooperation with the global gaming leader Valve and combines Valve´s VR tracking and input technologies with HTC`s design and engineering, setting a new global standard for the industry. The HTC Vive...
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