Yesterday, I mentioned we should hear something from HTC about the HTC Vive virtual reality experience and when we could get our hands on it. Today they delivered… sort of. In an effort to deliver the very best virtual reality product HTC had the following to say about the upcoming release.
HTC is taking the 7000 units that have already been produced and will announce them as the second generation developer kit at CES. HTC has provided a new timeline for consumer release of a finished HTC Vive product for the month of April 2016. This gives HTC more time to engage audiences at key events including The Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, GDC and MWC while expanding demo tours. HTC is also hosting a developer conference in Beijing ten days from now to put the dev kit in more hands that will hopefully give us exciting new content.
HTC has posted an official blog on the topic, but it has crashed their site with an overwhelming response. For consumers, we’re gonna have to wait a little while longer so HTC can get more dev kits out to developers giving them an opportunity to create more content to run on SteamVR with Vive.
In truth, we want the HTC Vive and we want it to be amazing. As incredible of an experience I had this summer when I got to try the Vive it will be a million times better when it hits shelves in April. At least we’ll get to see what the consumer version would have looked like when HTC releases the dev kit 2 at CES.
What do you guys think? This gives me a few more months to get a better graphics card for my computer and some other things I’m working on in order. Will you be in line in April to get the HTC Vive? What other VR systems are you now considering?
Source: HTC Blog
