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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

HTC has announced the appointment of Yves Maitre as its new CEO. Cher Wang, who took over as company CEO in March 2015, is stepping down to continue as Chairwoman of the HTC board. HTC says she will focus on future technologies that both align with the company’s portfolio and vision of Vive Reality.

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JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015. .

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

HTC just sent a Vive Focus 3 headset to the International Space Station to support astronaut mental health. Vive Focus 3 is HTC's $1300 business-focused standalone headset, which it released in 2021. It's the result of a partnership between HTC, XRHealth, and Nord-Space. This isn't the first time this has been done.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

GDC has historically been a key event for both Facebook/Oculus and Sony, with major announcements and previews of what would come from each company’s VR ventures throughout the rest of the year. In years past, GDC was used by both Oculus and Sony to reveal the latest versions of new VR headsets and content.

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JULY 8, 2016

Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015. “HTC

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Holiday shopping season is here and we’re tracking the best Oculus Go Black Friday 2018 deals. Oculus Go Deal Baseline. It’s important to understand the nominal price point for the Oculus Go so that you know what kind of deal you’re getting when you see a sale. Oculus Go (64GB) – $250.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Bethesda recently announced that Fallout 4 (2015) is coming to HTC Vive this October, and Skyrim (2011) is soon to follow sometime in late 2017 on PlayStation VR. On top of that, the company has made no official mention of Oculus Rift support for any of their upcoming VR titles.

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JULY 16, 2016

The SteamVR powered HTC Vive virtual reality system may see an updated “HTC Vive 2.0″ The HTC Vive, powered with technology developed by gaming giant Valve, had an impressively short gestation period. See Also: HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference on January 12th. This video may indicate HTC is ready to make that move, using its now established Vive brand. Will HTC announce a mobile VR headset at its January 12th press conference? pic.twitter.com/ppONWlT5Mr.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the original Kat Walk VR treadmill Kickstarter in 2015, is bringing its new consumer-focused VR treadmill ‘Kat Walk C’ to the crowdfunding platform on June 21st. The device is also said to be compatible with Oculus Quest via Link, and with PSVR via an additional adapter.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. … well, sort of. You still have to set it up). UPS is using VR to train its drivers.

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MAY 17, 2020

Originally released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in 2013 followed by the PC in 2015, GTA V has since gone on to become one of the highest-grossing video game titles of all-time, due in no small part to Rockstar’s GTA Online service and lucrative microtransactions, referred to in-game as “Shark Cards.”

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JANUARY 27, 2021

According to Schell Games, I Expect You To Die has generated over $6 million in revenue across all platforms (Oculus Rift/Rift S, Oculus Quest/Quest 2, SteamVR, PSVR), which isn’t all that surprising considering the overwhelmingly positive reception from both players and critics. We can’t wait for the community to play it.”.

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JUNE 7, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company known for kickstarting its original Kat Walk VR treadmill in 2015, is once again returning to the crowdfunding platform to launch a new product later this month, this time serving up a VR treadmill called ‘Kat Walk C’ that promises to appeal to at-home consumers.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow. The short length of the USB 3.0

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Subnautica was first developed for PCs, although during its lengthy stint in Early Access on Steam its developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment added preliminary support in 2015 for the Oculus Rift DK2. Subnautica will be permanently free to users who download the title from December 14th to December 27th.

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JULY 31, 2017

Chocolate , the latest virtual creation from the mind of Tyler Hurd—the VR animator and director behind BUTTS (2015) and Old Friend (2016) —is set to launch on August 17th on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Chocolate is a real-time VR music video set to a catchy, building electronic track of the same name by artist Giraffage.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. This is despite the fact that new sales for the DK2 ceased in late 2015. The data suggests 6.5

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Half-Life: Alyx will launch the week after GDC, an annual game developers event which Valve has regularly attended, and where the company first debuted its VR initiatives way back in 2015. Half-Life: Alyx will support all SteamVR capable headsets, like Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR, and Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The perennially avant-garde singer-songwriter Björk has brought her entire 2015 album, Vulnicura , to virtual reality. The Vulnicura Virtual Reality Album is now available Steam (Oculus Rift, Valve Index, HTC Vive) priced at $30.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR. Initially Gunjack 2 , launched in 2016, was exclusively available on Google Daydream.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn’t commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus says the controller is nearly complete, and better than ever.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Oculus has officially confirmed that Toybox , the highly anticipated multiplayer sandbox application built from the ground up to show off the Oculus Touch motion controllers, will be made available to every touch owner for free after launch. At the time however, it was early days for software Touch support.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Now available for $60 on Oculus and Steam, the game offers support for Rift, Index, and HTC Vive, though developer Codemasters also confirmed that PSVR support won’t come to the PS4 version of the game. update adds the VR feature to the Steam version , and the game has also launched for Rift and Rift S on the Oculus store.

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APRIL 25, 2017

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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JUNE 1, 2018

E McNeill, an indie developer behind strategy games Darknet (2015), Tactera (2016) , and Skylight (2017), announced his real-time strategy game Astraeus , an Oculus Go launch title, is coming to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PC on June 7th. Astraeus will be available at a 10% launch discount off the usual price of $15.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

You might have caught a glimpse of the Feelreal mask prototype when it made headlines back at GDC 2015 , the smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that promised to bring plenty of scents to your nostrils and haptics to your face. Today the company announced that Feelreal is definitely for real, and coming to consumers via a Kickstarter soon.

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JUNE 9, 2018

“We’ve been working very closely with both Valve and HTC to make sure Vive Pro is supported in SteamVR runtime on MacOS,” he said. We’ve reached out to HTC about their plans for the SRWorks SDK on MacOS. High Sierra. A preview of MacOS 10.4

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Announced back in October 2015, Earthlight, the first-person space simulator from Opaque Space that puts you aboard the International Space Station (ISS), was eventually supposed to come to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PSVR. Now, a consumer version, which came to HTC Vive four months ago, is coming to PSVR.

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MARCH 7, 2018

Oculus has included similar warnings, as their guidelines for both Rift and Gear VR is set at 13+, although Oculus ex-CEO Brendan Iribe admitted back in 2015 that Oculus adopted Facebook’s the 13+ age requirement when they were acquired. Sorry tweens, Mario Kart VR is still for 13 and up.

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MAY 25, 2017

In a curious move, HTC has revealed a new mobile VR headset called Link that is not part of the company’s Vive brand. HTC is by now one of the world’s leaders in the virtual reality space. Instead the Link headset is designed to work with HTC’s newly announced U11 smartphone.

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JULY 10, 2018

Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS , the VR visual novel game is targeting HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. Established in 2016, the company has already released several titles including the interactive manga Innocent Forest (2017) and Innocent Forest 2 (2017) for Oculus Rift and mobile VR platforms Oculus Go and Gear VR.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At Oculus Connect 2 in 2015 it gave everyone a free Samsung Gear VR, at F8 2018 it gave everyone a free Oculus Go, and at F8 2019 it gave a free Oculus Quest. In 2016 Valve President Gabe Newell famously gave all Vision VR summit attendees a free HTC Vive. Roblox for Quest launched on App Lab in July.

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JULY 28, 2019

There’s a few short VR experiences that just stick with you, and one of my favorites is the 2015-era VR music video Surge. You can download the VR experience for free on Steam , which includes support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index.

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