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Valve's VR headset is called the Vive and it's made by HTC

Plug this thing into your PC for a whole new world of Steam-powered experiences

HTC has just announced the Vive, a virtual reality headset developed in collaboration with Valve. It will be available to consumers later this year, with a developer edition coming out this spring. The company has promised to have a significant presence at the Game Developers Conference next week, where devs will have a chance to play with Valve's VR technology.

The Vive Developer Edition uses two 1200 x 1080 displays that refresh at 90 frames per second, "eliminating jitter" and achieving "photorealistic imagery," according to HTC. The displays are said to envelope your entire field of vision with 360-degree views. The company says in a press release that it's the first device to offer a "full room-scale" experience, "letting you get up, walk around and explore your virtual space, inspect objects from every angle and truly interact with your surroundings.

The device uses a gyrosensor, accelerometer, and laser position sensor to track your head's movements as precisely as one-tenth of a degree. Most surprisingly, there will be something called the Steam VR base station, which will let you walk around the virtual space instead of using a controller. A pair of the base stations can "track your physical location ... in spaces up to 15 feet by 15 feet."

Gattis added at MWC that "It's also really light, so you can wear it for a long time without feeling weighed down." There are headphone jacks on the side of the developer edition, but it sounds like the final consumer version will have a built-in audio solution.

It will be available with a pair of HTC-made wireless controllers for manipulating objects or shooting weapons through hand tracking. They're "designed to be so versatile that they will work with a wide range of VR experiences." While the Vive will certainly play nice with games, but it's also about other experiences, including virtual reality through partners like HBO, Lionsgate, and Google.

HTC and Valve enter the VR ring

HTC's Peter Chou hyped the new device during the press event today in Barcelona. "We believe that virtual reality will totally transform the way that we interact with the world. Virtual reality will become a mainstream technology for the rest of the world," he said. Chou named a few examples of what you'll be able to do with the Vive: "Attending real-time concerts, learning history, reliving memories."

The Vive is the result of a "strategic partnership" between Valve and HTC. Valve teased its new virtual reality device last week, and said that more details would come at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. We'll be there to bring all the news to you live.

 

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/1/8127445/htc-vive-valve-vr-headset



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1200x1080 per eye at 90Hz sound decent and attainable in most games with regular high end equip, but it will probably still have a visible "fly-door-effect" with that kind of resolution

the star of the device is the build in sensors that make it possible to stand up and walk around in the VR scene without an external camera and that the consumer version is announced to release by the end of 2015



Thats not a high enough resolution, DK2 is pixelated as hell, this isnt that much of an improvement.



The resolution is downright bad, good thing it's just the DE though.



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That kinda looks ugly



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It's giving me a GITS vibe, hopefully the res will be higher and it'll be good to see some competition in the same field as Oculus.



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Interesting, I wasn't expecting that! Hopefully they will improve the resolution by the time the consumer model is out but I m curious as to how many games will support it



                  

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I hope this will be sign to Oculus that it's cool to actually release a product.

I couldn't find any info about the specs. But since it's HTC I'm assuming horrible LCD instead of OLED.



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So I guess this is what wowed all the devs last year. I want one!



Shame i can't use these properly since my right eye sucks really sad about missing out in a next big part of gaming :(

Someone pls fund a VR Monocle XD....... srsly pls