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Thinking about betting into VR? This is what you get in the box with the HTC Vive.

MSI VR ONE - Wireless VR Backpack Review - The MSI VR ONE is quite simply a full PC that comes in the form of a backpack that allows you to connect your HTC Vive for a "wireless" VR experience. This VR ONE unit packs a GTX 1070 laptop GPU to hopefully supply us with the needed 90 frames per...

We have not been shy about saying that VR is going to change the world, and while we here at HardOCP tend to obviously focus on VR gaming, the technology is going to extend into many different elements in our daily lives. Long time HardOCP reader, The_Heretic, was kind enough to share this news...

Hopefully we can expect some sort of variant of this WiGig (Wireless Gigabit) HTC Vive headset in the first half of 2018. I have spent countless hours with the Vive headset on, and I can assure you, that while the wired headset in manageable, if I could go wireless, I certainly would. The huge...

Click-bait title, maybe, but it's how I'm feeling after about 2 hours screwing around with a Samsung Gear VR and a Galaxy S7 Edge. Mind you this is the original model which I found on clearance locally for $25; at that price I figured why not? The S7 Edge isn't on the officially supported list...

No matter how often we the consumer tell them we hate it, hardware vendors and content providers just can't seem to resist the temptation to enter into exclusivity deals locking out customers who just don't happen to have the right combination of hardware. It's as if they've forgotten that the...

I think we can all agree that unlike in the 90's when Virtual Reality first became a buzzword, VR today is pretty damned cool. One of the problems preventing it from really gaining as much traction as it should has been the rather steep up front cost. First you need a $800 headset, and then...

HTC's Viveport subscription service is rolling out in the coming weeks for Vive owners. As an added bonus, HTC has decided to make the first month free! This will allows everyone to try it out and see if it's for them. When a user subscribes to an app, they effectively check it out from the...

HTC says that it has received 2,300 submissions from VR developers for a chance at 1,000 HTC Vive Tracker units. They are going to keep the submissions open as they review the applications. The HTC Vive Tracker is the device that you can attach to a baseball bat, tennis racket, etc and track...

HTC took the wraps off its Vive Tracker at CES 2017. According to the video we've embedded below, the Vive Tracker is a small device that allows you to put real world objects into the virtual world.

It's easy to say your product is VR capable but, as we've seen in our testing time and again, that isn't always the case. That's why the crew at VR Jive decided to take the MSI GE62VR laptop out for a spin to see how well it handled VR gaming.

HTC has just put all those rumors of a Vive 2 announcement at CES to rest today. The company told UploadVR that it is focusing on "building out a strong and growing ecosystem" for the current Vive and has no plans to make a Vive 2 announcement at this time. HTC confirmed to UploadVR that it...

Remember those pods in the first Matrix movie? Well, that's where VR is taking us. Want to know how? Strap on our tinfoil covered headsets and click the link (red pill) and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes. But as the tech industry continues to build VR’s social future, the very systems...

HTC announced today that it has launched Vive Studios to develop and publish VR games for the HTC Vive VR headset. The new studio has one game out already with more coming in the "weeks to come."

Drunkn Bar Fight VR Game Giveaway Post ONCE in this thread to enter the chance to win one Drunkn Bar Fight Steam Game Code. You do need a fair large room space to play this game, so keep that in mind. You can find the Drunkn Bar Fight Guide at the link.

Is it possible to do VR on a budget? John Gatt over at VR Jive set out to see if it was possible to build a budget system for VR gaming and, from what I can tell, he seems more than a little pleased with his findings. To test the experiences and games I have on the HTC Vive I wanted to come up...

For all you VR enthusiasts out there, Epic is showcasing the mods from the most recent VR Funhouse Game Jam. The best part? VR Funhouse is free and all the mods listed on the page can be downloaded from the game's workshop page. Don't know anything about VR Funhouse? You can see our VR...

If you like free games and you have a HTC Vive, you should probably fire up Steam and grab this game called Accounting for free. In case you were wondering, it's a VR game about accounting...you know, like numbers and stuff. The game has a "Very Positive" rating from over 287 reviews. Not...

More images of the in-development next-gen Vive controllers have popped up on Twitter. What do you guys think of the new design?

This is really a great story. Hopefully HTC hears about this and sends the guy a Vive for "medicinal purposes." At least that way the guy wouldn't have to make trips all the way to London just to get a 15 - 20 minute VR demo. :cool: Soar suffers from a hereditary eye condition known as...

What do you guys think about VR games in casinos? Personally, I live in Las Vegas and I just don't see it becoming popular but then again, people will bet on damn near anything so who knows? "When you start the experience you basically choose a bet amount - I think right now it's $15, $25, and...

Here's something you might not have thought about when it comes to playing room scale VR games. You can actually use games to get some exercise and have fun at the same time. Although we own an Oculus Rift, we use the HTC Vive here for our VR performance reviews because of the fact that it does...

Remember our VR performance guide using the game Raw Data last month? Well, it would seem that the game has gone on to become the first VR title to sell one million copies in a single month. If you want to know what kind of hardware it takes to get the best experience out of Raw Data, make sure...

HTC partnered with AMD this year to show off the power of the Vive at Gamescom 2016. In addition to AMD, developers such as Croteam, Mifcom, Narayana Games, VR Unicorns, and others all had VR games and simulations on display at the show. Watching people play VR games in a room scale environment...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Project Cars - If you like racing games then it is likely that you are familiar with Project Cars. This racing game can push a system to its limits when you turn up the visuals, and that is just what we are doing today while using our HTC Vive VR headset. And...

A recent survey conducted by research analyst Jessica Smith found that HTC Vive is currently the most popular platform among developers. No doubt one of the reason for this is, as Kyle has covered in our VR performance reviews, is the HTC Vive's room scale play and handheld controllers...

Cloudhead Games just announced that Call of Starseed is now part of the HTC Vive content bundle. This is the very same game we used in our AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance in Call of Starseed article. Great reading for anyone interested in jumping on the VR wagon. :cool:

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance in Trials on Tatooine - Anyone that buys into an HTC Vive headset will almost assuredly want to wield a lightsaber...for free. This short VR demo built by Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB aims to put you in a photo-realistic Star Wars environment. Trials on Tatooine is not...

Valve is opening up its Vive VR trackers to custom hardware Pretty cool...probably could see Touch-like controllers on the Vive. Definitely more reason to pick up a Vive.

If you want an extension cable (for the USB on headset), more foam face pads or nose pads, you can now order them :) just picked up 4 new foam pads Vive | Accessory looking forward to seeing new strap designs to replace the stocker

Hi guys, I am having serious trouble getting Elite: Dangerous to work on the HTC Vive. I get lots of stuttering when looking around (though not while moving, oddly). EVGA precision reports 44fps in the game window that displays on the monitor. I don't know if this framerate is necessarily the...

Just going to quick put this up so we have a place to hopefully put all of our thoughts and LINKS in. ARS Review. HTC Vive review: You can now buy your own holodeck simulator v1.0 Engadget. HTC Vive VR review: great ideas, unfinished execution Wall St. Journal. HTC...

For those of us that are still a little confused about what it takes to run each of the upcoming VR headsets, what each one comes with and how much they cost, this article should come in handy. What seems pretty cut-and-dry gets complicated in a hurry when you consider that none of these are...

While everyone is buzzing about VR right now, I honestly don't think any of the platforms have anything close to what you could call a line-up of games just yet. I think realistically we are looking at next holiday season and beyond. The next few months are crucial; if Sony continues to execute...

So, you have a single scene to show in two slightly different ways in the headset to give a stereoscopic effect. Does the scene have to be rendered twice? Or, is it rendered once, and the game inserts two "cameras," one for each image? Do different setting have to be applied more than once...