HTC Vive Consumer Edition

HTC Vive Consumer Edition

New HTC Vive Version May Be Coming This Year, Report Suggests

The SteamVR powered HTC Vive virtual reality system may see an updated "HTC Vive 2.0" before the end of the year according to a report citing suppliers to the Taipei based firm. The HTC Vive, powered with technology developed by...

HTC Vive to Hit 100 US Stores, Orders Now Ship in 72 Hours Worldwide

HTC has announced that it's first VR headset, the SteamVR powered Vive, is to appear at 100 retail locations from this month and for those ordering online, they're promising to ship to you within 72 hours wherever you are...

Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. Although many probably assumed that Valve's collection of VR experiences,...
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HTC’s First Vive Game ‘Front Defense’ is a WWII Gallery Shooter

Computex 2016 is under way and HTC are out on the show floor in full force with a collection of titles showing off their Vive VR system. One of the titles developed by the company, playable for the first...

Making Calls in VR with HTC Vive’s Bluetooth Functions

Voice calling and messaging comes to the HTC Vive VR system with HTC's Voice Services. We show you how to set it up and tell you if it's any good or not. HTC's announcement at the Mobile World Congress early...
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One of VR’s Best ‘First Time’ Experiences Comes to CV1 and HTC Vive

Consistently a firm favourite here at Road to VR, Sightline: The Chair is an award winning 'greatest hits' of VR vignettes that happen to be one of the best introductions to virtual reality. The developer just released the latest...

Katie Goode on VR Accessibility & Designing for Users with Disabilities

Katie Goode is the Creative Director of Triangular Pixels, which has developed Smash Hit Plunder for the Gear VR and Unseen Diplomacy for the Vive. Unseen Diplomacy is a room-scale experience that has people crawling through tunnels as a...

Combining Interactive Exploration & Sports with ‘#SelfieTennis’

VR Unicorns is a Copenhagen-based development collective that developed #SelfieTennis. They were working on Julie Heyde's RagnarökVR until they stated experimenting with room-scale sports experiences. Playing tennis against yourself in VR was the first mechanic that found was really compelling...

Valve’s Chet Faliszek on HTC Vive Launch Title Highlights

Valve's Chet Faliszek has been a key virtual reality evangelist & developer relations liaison over the past couple of years for the HTC Vive, and I had a chance to sit down with him at GDC as they were...

HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space

We go hands on with Valve and HTC’s new room-scale virtual reality system the Vive and discover that with incredible VR experiences come great real estate requirements. We’ve been reporting on virtual reality since 2011 here at Road to VR, and it’s...

HTC Vive Orders Being Cancelled Due to Payment Processing Issues – UPDATED

It seems HTC are experiencing technical issues with their payment processing systems and customers' banks which are leading to some pre-orders for their forthcoming HTC Vive VR system being cancelled. So it seems it's not just Oculus who are experiencing...

HTC Vive Consumer Edition Has Landed, We Unbox Room-scale VR

The HTC Vive is due to land on people's doorsteps from April 5th, and our in depth review is on its way then too. In the mean time, here's a sneak peek at what you can expect to get in...
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