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HTC Announces Vive Flow, a Compact VR Headset Focused on Casual Entertainment & Wellbeing

HTC today announced Vive Flow, its latest standalone VR headset. While the company just recently released the enterprise-focused Vive Focus 3, the Vive Flow aims for the consumer market with a compact size and feature-set that HTC has designed...

HTC Likely Announcing a New Standalone Vive Headset Next Week

HTC recently said that it will host an online Vive event next week, but has only teased minimal hints about what it plans to announce. Regulatory filings spotted by Road to VR suggest a new standalone HTC Vive headset will...

HTC Discontinuing Vive Pro and Vive Focus in Favor of Newer Iterations

HTC is discontinuing its Vive Pro and Vive Focus headsets in favor of newer versions of the headsets. The change helps streamline the company's smattering of headsets. In a recent opinion piece I argued that HTC's VR headset lineup, which...

HTC Vive Pro Headset Permanently Reduced to $600

HTC Vive Pro launched in April 2018 with a few key improvements over the company's original 2016 HTC Vive headset, although its launch was marred somewhat by its steep retail price of $800 for the headset alone. Now the company...

7invensun Announces $150 Eye-tracking Module Supporting All HTC Headsets

Today at HTC's Vive Developer Meeting in Beijing and its simultaneous Shanghai-based Vive Ecosystem Conference, Chinese eye-tracking startup 7invensun debuted a new eye-tracking module that's not only affordable at $150 (¥1100 RMB), but is designed to support all of...

Vive Holiday Deals Include $200 off Vive Pro & Free ‘Fallout 4 VR’ with Viveport Subscription

This Black Friday HTC is focusing on pushing its high-end Vive Pro headset and will be offering discounts on the 'full kit' and the 'headset only' option. The company is also offering big discounts on its Viveport Subscription service,...

HTC Publishes Vive Wireless Adapter Setup Instructions, Suggesting Nearby Launch

HTC's Vive Wireless Adapter, which was first unveiled at CES earlier this year, doesn't have either a price or precise launch date yet (HTC recently said 'late summer'), but now a setup manual has appeared on the company's UK-facing...

HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled 'VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it'. It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article's thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some...

Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg's Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1013723541760425984 CNET has confirmed that the company is indeed going forward with layoffs in Taiwan, although...
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HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries

HTC is donating over 110 HTC Vive systems to California and Nevada libraries through its new Vive Libraries Program, an effort to seed local communities with premium VR. In a blogpost announcing the program, HTC's Chris Chin, Executive Director of Education...

Rift & Vive Summer Sales Offer Big Savings on Hundreds of VR Titles

While we're still waiting on the Steam Summer Sale to materialize, this year's big Rift and Vive annual summer sales are already here, and hundreds of VR titles are on deep discount on the Oculus Store and Viveport until...

HTC’s New Vive Focus Headset Locker Aims to Put VR at the Forefront of Education in...

HTC has been making inroads into the education system in China with its startup VIVEDU, which centers around both University-level and K-12 education programs using HTC Vive and now HTC Vive Focus, the company's 6DOF standalone VR headset. In a...

Vive Pro Gets AR Capabilities Thanks to HTC’s New Tools for Front-facing Cameras

HTC has announced a new set of tools allowing developers to build applications which take advantage of the Vive Pro's stereo front-facing cameras, effectively turning the device into an AR headset dev kit. The new tools allow the cameras to...

Oculus Rift Increases Lead Over HTC Vive in Steam Majority Market Share

Valve's monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out, and it appears Oculus Rift is still gaining momentum over HTC Vive on the Steam platform as the number one VR headset among Steam users. Each month, Valve runs the survey among...

HTC and Gaming Giant IGT Partner on VR Tournament Platform for Casinos

HTC is expanding its out-of-home VR entertainment reach with a new deal with gaming giant IGT that will see its Vive hardware and software power a new competitive VR initiative where players compete for real money stakes. The recent reveal...
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