HTC HEADSET TO BE
RE-VIVED IN APRIL
ROBIN WILDE
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The HTC Vive - being
released in partnership
with Valve - was supposed to be the first real
VR headset available for
the consumer market.
But at the end of December the manufacturer made clear that it
would miss its late 2015
release date and instead
hit shelves in April this
year.
Speculation was rife
about why, until a few
days later when tech
website Engadget reported HTC CEO Cher
Wang saying "a very,
very big technological
breakthrough" had been
made. The company
then decided to skip the
original version of the
hardware entirely in favour of shipping the updated model at launch.
The Vive is a higherend VR headset than the
likes of the Oculus Rift,
including the tricky feature of object tracking to
allow for real-world objects and spaces to enter
the virtual reality.
There's not yet any
word on the price, either. Wang was evasive when asked - and
it's hard to imagine that
if the headset was ultraaffordable there would
have been so much
dithering.
The headset can make
use of some rather unu-
sual looking controllers,
more in line with old PC
joysticks than anything
more recent in controller
design.
The new technology - whatever
it is - should be
debuting at
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