Valve Partners with HTC on VR Headset Called the Vive - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2015 / 2,595 Views
HTC has announced they have partnered with Valve to develop a virtual reality headset, according to The Verge. The VR headset is called Vive and uses Valve's Steam VR technology. It will be released later this year. A developer model will be released this spring.
The Vive developer model comes with two 1200 x 1080 displays that run at 90fps. HTC says that will get rid of any jitter and have "photorealistic imagery." The display will use a person's entire field of vision with a 360 degree view. The headset uses an accelerometer, laser position sensor and gyrosensor to track a person's head movement up to 1/10th of a degree.
HTC plans to have a big presence at GDC next week. Developers will be given the chance to try out the headset. Watch the announcement trailer here.
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