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MAY 11, 2020

It looks like HTC is making a final push to relieve itself of Vive Pro stock in Europe, as the company is including a copy of Valve’s critically-acclaimed VR title Half-Life: Alyx (2020) with purchase of the full kit. SEE ALSO HTC Reveals Vive Proton, a Compact Standalone VR Headset Prototype. HTC Vive Pro Specs.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Amazon have announced they’ve started selling the SteamVR powered HTC Vive VR system in their US online store. Consumer virtual reality systems like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are still just months old and already it feels like they’re making inroads to being accepted as every day products. Interested?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Holiday shopping season is here and we’re keeping an eye on the best HTC Vive Black Friday 2018 deals. HTC Vive Deal Baseline. The Best HTC Vive 2018 Deal. Unfortunately HTC isn’t offering any official deal on the original Vive; you’ll find it for $500 on Amazon and elsewhere as usual.

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JULY 24, 2019

Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. Image courtesy Amazon.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We’re tracking the best HTC Vive deals for Black Friday 2017 and Cyber Monday as they spring up. HTC Vive Deal Baseline. Sans any sales, the HTC Vive MSRP is $600, which includes the base system (headset with standard strap, two base stations, two controllers, cables), and usually a smaller game, like Tilt Brush.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

HTC today announced consumer availability of Vive Tracker, the tracking module that uses Valve’s Lighthouse tracking standard. First shipped to developers earlier this year, HTC is now selling the Tracker to consumers with the full confidence that anyone can pick it up and use it. image courtesy HTC. image courtesy HTC.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Amazon River Basin, the biggest tropical rainforest in the world, is not only home to 10% of the Earth’s known species, but also happens to be one of the coolest natural wonders one could possibly see. And what an enticing game it is. Amazon Odyssey is available now via Viveport for $9.99.

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JULY 21, 2017

A survey sponsored by HTC America is currently open on SurveyGizmo , with the option to enter a prize draw, which includes three Vive systems and seven gift cards worth $100 – $150. The 10-15 minute ‘experiences with VR’ survey is for HTC’s ‘research purposes only’, aiming to gather some general VR usage data and purchasing habits.

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MAY 3, 2017

Tracking Amazon’s work in VR can be tricky, as the company is famously quiet in response to media inquiries while seemingly being involved in multiple areas. The company is helping to make VR games with its Lumberyard development engine, and appears to be interested in VR video for its streaming service.

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JULY 16, 2018

Amazon Prime Day is here; this year HTC’s latest VR headset Vive Pro is getting a special deal. From now until July 17th at 8:59 PM PT ( local time here ), US Amazon Prime Members can get a $50 Amazon gift card and $50 Viveport gift card with purchase of a Vive Pro VR headset. Amazon $50 Gift Card.

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JULY 21, 2016

Listings on Amazon have revealed prices for some PlayStation VR games, giving an idea of what Sony plans to charge for the first wave of virtual reality titles to hit the console platform. See Also: Here’s All 29 PSVR Games Sony’s Showing at E3. All five titles are currently available for pre-order.

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JULY 27, 2018

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 of the article’s claims, saying it’s “not the whole story.”

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AUGUST 19, 2018

After the Oculus Rift Marvel Powers United bundle was briefly on sale for $350 at Best Buy, now the basic Rift package has dropped to $350 at Amazon US, a $50 discount, which is about as good as you can hope to find. SEE ALSO HTC Is Opening Its Viveport VR App Store to Oculus Rift Users.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

If the HTC’s Black Friday deal wasn’t attractive enough to convince you into finally grabbing that Vive headset you’ve been eyeing, Amazon is ‘reviving’ the $600 Black Friday deal today and throwing in a $100 Amazon gift card. image courtesy Amazon. Get the deal here.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Now HTC says an update should be headed out at some point this month that looks to address a number of tracking issues that currently plague its latest PC VR headset. HTC says in a recent blog post that the update looks to improve low-light tracking in Cosmos, and do it with better prediction during fast movements.

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JULY 22, 2016

HTC Vive Finds New VP of Marketing in Former Xbox, Amazon Executive The HTC Vive has been on sale for a few months now, and the team behind the kit is growing. Joining that team this month is a former executive from both Microsoft and Amazon. Sandil will also help to attract new developers to the platform.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

You can buy the Rift for its normal price of $599 and will receive a $100 digital coupon good towards Oculus VR apps and games. 100 Off HTC Vive + Content Sale. HTC announced this week that they are kicking off the holiday with a Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal. Free Samsung Gear VR. and online. on November 28.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. HTC Vive’s blog reveals that their partners have collaborated to do just that and Amazon has also put together an Oculus Rift deal.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Launched right on the heels of the Oculus Go earlier this summer, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, the company’s standalone Daydream headset, is currently selling for an $80 discount off the original $400 price tag on Amazon US. The post Lenovo Mirage Solo on Sale for $320 at Amazon US appeared first on Road to VR.

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JULY 12, 2018

If you’ve been looking around the web for a HTC Vive, you’ve probably met with a big ‘sold out’ sign recently in the US; Amazon, Best Buy, New Egg, and even HTC’s own website have been out of stock for a while now. That’s set to change in a few weeks, a HTC spokesperson told us. “We

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

HTC announced Black Friday offers beginning today in Europe, which see heavy discounts on the Vive Flow and Vive Pro 2 range. Flow is HTC’s lightweight headset designed for immersive media viewing, which released almost exactly a year ago. Vive Flow is discounted €120/£120, bringing it down to €379/£379 from €499/£499.

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JULY 11, 2017

So many of us have barely recovered from the Steam Summer Sale and we’re already being hit with another wave of attacks on our wallet via Amazon’s Prime Day. If you haven’t pulled the trigger on the next level of entertainment, there’s no better time than now with PSVR and HTC Vive both available in high-value bundles.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Amazon announced VR support for Lumberyard , their free of cost CryEngine-based game engine, at last year’s GDC, but this year the company is pushing the feature specs of the engine, maintaining that Lumberyard is the first game engine to directly integrate temporal anti-aliasing, specular anti-aliasing and order-independent transparency.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

This is shaping up to be one hell of a year for VR gaming. Whether you’re on the Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, or a SteamVR headset, you’ll find there’s plenty of VR gaming to look forward to over the next 12 months. Here are 10 VR games we’re excited to play in 2021: AFTER THE FALL. GREEN HELL VR.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

If you’re planning to pick up an HTC Vive any time soon you’ll net two extra titles with your purchase in addition to the two already offered. The extra titles are redeemable through Viveport, HTC’s own VR app store. So far it appears the extra titles are available if you purchase direct from HTC or through Amazon.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The HTC Vive Pro page on Amazon US. It is really a high price: with that price, you can buy 3 Rifts and still have $200 to buy your games. As I’ve told in some previous posts of mine, it is all matter of market positioning : HTC wants to position its device as a premium device, not as a consumer one.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. HTC is working on compatibility with other headsets, but nothing has been announced yet. THREE TO ONE. Lone Echo).

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The headset also launched alongside Horizon Call of the Mountain , the first native VR game based on one of Sony’s major first-party IPs. That’s meant a dearth of unique, high quality content for PSVR 2 (amplified by a lack of backwards support for original PSVR games).

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MARCH 16, 2017

VirZOOM, HTC, AMD and Fitbit are launching vSports next weekend! vSports competitions will take place every 2-3 months and feature a different VirZOOM game. The first game will be “Tank: Winterstan”. vSports is real, physical competition on VirZOOM. For participating venues, please visit [link] ).

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APRIL 3, 2018

For those that pre-ordered the Vive Pro when orders opened up on Vive.com and Amazon , your headset is almost on its way — shipping April 5th. The HTC Vive Pro is an upgrade of the original Vive, which saw its price drop from $599 to $499 when then the Vive Pro pricing was announced. But at the same time, its not for everyone.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Frostpoint VR is bringing its 10v10-player shooting action to Steam and the Oculus PC Store on December 1st, which includes support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and Windows VR headsets. The post ‘Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds’ to Release on PC VR December 1st appeared first on Road to VR.

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JUNE 5, 2017

If you’re looking to do roomscale with the Oculus Rift then you’ll need much more than the headset itself, and Amazon is offering a great bundle to get you up to speed. The HTC Vive offers this complete setup for $799. We’ve outlined the 9 best VR games you can play on Rift right now.

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MAY 12, 2017

This new week of HTC Vive releases welcomes a few deviations from the usual formula. There aren’t as many new games as usual, but this week signals the launch of the Steam 360 library. Give it a go and you can check out Lego Batman, the Amazon rain-forest, and more. New HTC Vive Releases on Steam. Price: $2.99.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Doom VFR , the VR-compatible game following Id Software’s recent Doom (2016), is now available for pre-order for $29.99 on PSVR and HTC Vive, a far cry from the non-VR game’s original launch price of $59.99 Only in a recent blog post does Bethesda call Doom VFR a “standalone VR game.”

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Platforms: Can play Oculus games loaded wirelessly through the built-in app store, and can also be tethered to PCs.

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JULY 11, 2017

Amazon is going all out today with deals on virtual reality products, running the whole gamut of headset options, computers, and accessories. For extra bang for your buck, make your purchase through the Amazon Smile program for OSgrid , and half a percent will be donated to OpenSim’s biggest non-profit grid and testing ground.

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