TAIPEI, Taiwan &
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- HTC Viveā¢
today announced a $200 price
reduction for Vive, making the best VR system more accessible to
the mass market, across the globe. Starting today, Vive will be
available for $599. All Vive
purchases come with a free trial to Viveport Subscription, where
consumers can choose up to 5 titles per month to experience, and
copies of many of the most popular pieces of VR content today,
including Google's Tilt Brush, Everest VR, and Richie's Plank
Experience.
"Our goal at Vive has always been to offer the best
and most advanced VR system and drive mass market adoption for VR
across the globe," said Cher Wang,
Chairwoman, HTC. "We're continuing to deliver on that commitment
with this new price for Vive, making VR more accessible to a
broader audience and driving the entire VR industry
forward. Vive's game-changing technology, best-in-class
content and unmatched global partners are fulfilling the promise of
VR like never before. With highly anticipated titles, and the
upcoming launch of Vive Tracker, there has never been a better
time to embrace Vive, and enjoy the most immersive VR experience
available."
A winner of hundreds of technology and industry awards across
the globe, Vive is the only product that offers room-scale VR out
of a single box, and this version of Vive will be the unit in
market for the foreseeable future. The base Vive package comes with
everything you need for a quick room-scale VR set-up: two base
stations for accurate tracking, two motion controllers for
immersive VR experiences and new and improved connection cables and
new materials that offer a lighter weight on the Vive headset.
According to a recent report from UBM, more developers are
building experiences for Vive than ever before, and Vive was chosen
as developers' top target when creating content. With more
than 3,600 titles available across Steam and Viveport and with new
AAA content arriving soon, Vive will continue to be the platform of
choice for developers and consumers alike. In addition, Viveport
Subscription allows consumers to choose from over 250 pieces of
content from a highly-curated offering, giving consumers another
opportunity to discover the best VR content available.
According to Steam statistics, HTC Vive maintains a 60% share of
access to the Steam platform for high-end VR headsets. Over
the past year, Vive has maintained its lead by more than 20%.
"We've rapidly diversified the Vive business so that when
customers and businesses purchase Vive, they know they'll benefit
from a wide base of support for years to come," said Dan O'Brien, GM US, HTC Vive. "From constant
improvements to the core Vive hardware to the industry's first VR
subscription service, to investments in new technology for
developers, Vive is at the forefront of the push to take VR to the
mainstream."
About HTC VIVE
VIVE is a first-of-its-kind virtual reality platform, built an
optimized for room-scale VR and true-to-life interactions.
Built on the SteamVR platform, Vive delivers on the promise of VR
with game-changing technology and best-in-class content. Vive has
created the strongest ecosystem for VR hardware and software,
bringing VR to consumers, developers and enterprises alike. The
Vive ecosystem is built around the best VR hardware in market,
supported by Vive X, a $100 million
accelerator for VR and related technology start-ups, Viveport, a
global platform and app store for VR that operates in more than 30
countries, and Vive Studios, its VR content development and
publishing initiative. For more information on Vive, please visit
https://www.vive.com.
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