HTC Enters VR Fray with SteamVR-powered Vive Headset

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Finished product to debut by year-end

Valve just made good on its promise of unveiling a SteamVR hardware system at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Meet Vive, a virtual reality headset powered by Valve’s SteamVR platform and manufactured by Taiwanese company HTC.
Born out of what HTC says is a “strategic partnership with Valve”, the Vive in its current form has two 1200-by-1080-pixel displays—one for each eye—and a 90Hz refresh rate. In a press release it sent out Sunday, the company promised “a full room scale 360 degree solution” when the Vive is combined with a pair of ergonomic wireless controllers — one for each hand — designed specially for it. Each Vive will come standard with a pair of these. The official product page also mentions something called the Steam VR base station, which can track your position in a 15 feet by 15 feet area.
“A gyrosensor, accelerometer, and laser position sensor combine to precisely track the rotation of your head on both axes to an accuracy of 1/10th of a degree, allowing you to look around the virtual environment naturally,” reads Vive's official product page.
The Developer Edition will be available this spring, while consumers will have to wait until the end of 2015 for the final product. According to the company, the beta versions of the Developer edition have already led to some stellar content from top game developers and as a result gamers can look forward to seeing a large number of Vive-compatible games on Steam.
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