Now available in China, and quite possibly on its way to a wider release, HTC is prominently showing its new standalone Vive Focus headset at MWC 2018 this week. The company says the Focus is positioned as the premium option among...

At this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, HTC CEO Cher Wang took the stage to outline the company's big picture approach to the future. The company is ostensibly putting increased focus on VR/AR with their newly coined...

This year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is underway, and while the event's main focus is inevitably on the newest batch of smartphones to hit the market this year, VR's presence can definitely be felt. Visiting HTC's booth,...

Chialin Chang, HTC's President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business, made his immediate resignation official last week, which HTC now confirms has prompted the company to merge its smartphone and VR divisions—a move that possibly points to the HTC putting greater...

Ostensibly the first batch of Vive Pro, HTC's upcoming prosumer VR headset, is now landing on the doorsteps of developers. Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017), tweeted out that they've...

VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka 'Skarred Ghost') got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn't answer the question on everyone's mind—"how much is Vive Pro going to cost?"—we...

Last year marked HTC's very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. Now, submissions for this year's VDAs are open, spanning more categories than last year, including...

HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content. Explained in a post on the official...

Viveport, HTC's VR content store for Vive, just received a significant overhaul aimed at improving content discovery and consumption. The new 'home' area, which is based on spaceship platform, acts as a launchpad for the store's games and experiences. I wasn't...

Today at a pre-CES Vive press event, we got a look at the newly announced HTC Vive Pro, a higher-resolution headset from the company acting as a sort of 'Vive 1.5'. Update (1/9/18): Catch our in-depth hands-on with the new...

Vive Focus, the first consumer-available standalone headset with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) positional tracking, has officially launched in China. While HTC isn't shipping Vive Focus outside the country, fresh reports of the headset's tracking capability seem to be promising. Richard Lai, Engadget China's Senior...

HTC today announced more specifics around Vive Focus, the company's standalone mobile VR headset for China-based customers. Once destined for Western shores running Google's Daydream platform, HTC recently surprised the world by scrapping those plans and limiting the release of the standalone...

HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company's Vive X accelerator program. A total of 26 new companies from across the world have been selected to participate in the program with the goal of "building...

HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve's Lighthouse tracking standard. The company also announced North American pre-order availability of a number of Vive Tracker accessory bundles that are slated to make their way to consumers in mid-December. First...

A 'Racket Sports Set' designed to be compatible with HTC Vive's Tracker, the modular positionally-tracked puck that you can use to track practically anything in VR, has just made an appearance on the Vive accessories site. The Tracker has only been available for...