The media hype machine has laid its adoration upon HTC and Valve for coming up with a mind-blowing virtual reality experience. But are you ecstatic about it yet? Are you willing to shell out double the price of
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It’s been nearly a year since we first tried HTC and Valve’s game-changing VR headset. In the time since, it’s gotten a new name and better hardware, plus rumors of a hefty price tag to go with its four-month delivery delay. But despite the challenges, the Vive Pre still delivers the best virtual reality experience we’ve seen yet. We went hands-on with the new visor on our last day at CES 2016 and our entire ground team got to put their faces in Valve’s virtual world; check out the video below for a taste of what we saw.(In the mood to read instead of view? For a full ...
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I’m in the cockpit of a spaceplane, a control stick in my right hand and a throttle in my left. All around me, dotting the space between asteroids, are the explosions of my enemies. Their fiery destruction is recorded by the computer screens surrounding me, bathing me in a serene glow that reflects off the canopy over my head. In short, I’m in my own personal, impossible heaven. So why does it feel so … conventional? The cockpit in Elite Dangerous [Source] The Vive Pre is the updated version of the original ...
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Update: BB-8 is overr8’d. See you next week!An Android tablet that doesn’t quite belong. HTC news on both sides of the good/bad divide. An ugly-as-sin Apple accessory. And a Droid Turbo 2 that looks like Star Wars’ own BB-8! Where are you going to find talk like this anywhere else on the internet? If you answered “anywhere I look,” you’re right indeed … but you ended up here so welcome to the party. All of the above – plus your listener mail – awaits on episode 178 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 1:30pm Eastern on ...
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When HTC first got the ball rolling on the Vive, its VR headset collaboration with Valve, the aim was to have the product ready to go for commercial sales in time for … well, pretty much by now. It quickly became apparent that HTC’s schedule was a little optimistic, with dev models not going out as planned, and by summer we were hearing that the new timetable had HTC making Vive available to developers in late Q4, followed by public sales ...
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Will the Vive revive HTC’s financial fortunes and keep the company on a sustainable financial path? After all, it used to be all about those smartphones, but it’s been apparent with this year’s spring flagship and its declining status that ...
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Earlier today on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast, we found ourselves briefly discussing the state of virtual reality hardware, and the subject of HTC’s Vive came up. The headset represents a marked departure from the sort of electronics we’re used to expecting from the company, and considering the shaky financial ground HTC finds itself on, Vive could end up offering an important new way for the ...
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