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HTC Vive VR: $800, shipping in April, and another risky bet for gamers

2016-02-22 14:00:38| Extremetech

HTC announced the price tag and features of its new Vive, with plans to ship the devices in April. We still recommend planning to wait and see how the upcoming VR solutions compare against each other before pre-ordering any of them, though.

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Unity and SteamVR Unite for Native Vive Support

2016-02-16 19:21:05| TechNewsWorld

Unity Technologies last week announced that the Unity Platform has been retooled to offer native support for SteamVR, the software foundation for HTC Vive. The move will save effort and resources, whether developers build made-for-VR titles or merely build virtual reality support into traditional games. In addition, Valve introduced an advanced rendering plug-in developed for Unity.

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HTC Shows Off Vive Pre's Room-Sensing Camera

2016-01-06 20:59:17| TechNewsWorld

A room-sensing camera planted on the front of the Vive Pre was the reason the release of Valve and HTC's virtual reality headset was delayed, the companies revealed Tuesday at CES 2016. The Vive VR headset was supposed to beat Oculus VR and Sony to the punch, coming out in the last quarter of last year. A last-minute "breakthrough" required more work on the Vive headset, HTC CEO Cher Wang said last month.

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Climate fight won't wait Paris: vive la résistance

2015-03-09 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: In the third piece in the Guardians major series on climate change, Bill McKibben describes how relentless climate movements have shifted the advantage towards fossil fuel resistance for the first time in 25 years. But he argues triumph is not certain we must not rest till the industry is forced to keep the carbon in the ground. The official view: all eyes are on Paris, where negotiators will meet in December for a climate conference that will be described as the most important diplomatic...

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