Road to VR

MAY 5, 2018

Vive Focus dev kits are headed outside of China today to international developers looking to create for the company’s standalone VR headset, which was first arrived to Chinese consumers back in January. Apparently HTC is lowering the price for some devs, although the total price sans discount appears to be approximately the same premium price tag the headset carries in its home country.

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VRScout

MAY 5, 2018

One of the most popular time-killers on the web comes to VR using Google 360 capture. For those of you who are still somehow unfamiliar with GeoGuessr , it’s essentially a browser-based geographic discovery game that provides you with a 2D image of a location somewhere on planet Earth and then asks you to identify exactly where you are before time runs out.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2018

Vive Focus, HTC’s standalone VR headset which first launched in China back in January, is gearing up for its Western release it seems. HTC today announced that it’s making Vive Focus developer units available to devs outside of China. Announced by HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin via Twitter , HTC is now shipping Vive Focus to developers outside of China, including immediate shipment upon approval.

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