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8 years ago
HTC Vive
Now that both the Vive and Rift are out and both systems have their own motion controls for full functionality, they end up looking very similar on paper. The Vive has the benefit of whole-room VR, though cable management is inconvenient if you're lurching blindly around a room.
Pros:
- Immersive experience
- Includes motion controllers and external sensors for whole-room VR
Cons:
- Expensive
- Tethered headset makes whole-room VR tricky
9 years ago
Audioshield HTC Vive review – fighting music
The creator of Audiosurf turns his rhythm action classic into one of the coolest games in the Vive virtual reality line-up.
Pros:
- A fun reinterpretation of classic rhythm action games
- that looks great and has a potentially infinite music library
Cons:
- The gameplay gets repetitive very quickly, no matter how different the music is you use
- Very buggy, particularly the menu interface
9 years ago
love this thing use it all the time.
it's a wonderful bit of kit and while not perfect still blows anything else vr out of the water. feels surreal to use you have to try it to understand.
9 years ago
HTC Vive
I realize I'm not sure where I am, literally speaking. I know where I am virtually. A miniature golf course The bottom of the ocean A demented office filled with robots. My little home office became all these things in the middle of the night. I walked through these worlds with my feet.
Pros:
- The HTC Vive offers a flat-out amazing virtual reality experience with sharp visuals, great motion controls and full-room sensing to walk around in virtual space
- Vive hardware can help indicate where your walls are, and an in-helmet camera can be used to see your space with the headset on
Cons:
- It requires a high-end PC to run
- Long wires and lots of equipment take time and space to set up
- Steam VR offers a lot of software but it isn't always beginner-friendly
9 years ago
HTC Vive
If you have the budget, the HTC Vive is the best virtual reality experience on the market, bar none.
Pros:
- Best VR experience
- Intuitive controls
- Software partnership with Valve
Cons:
- Still a bit pricey
- Requires a high-end GPU, Less comfortable than the Rift
9 years ago
HTC Vive review: is this brilliant but flawed and demanding product the Betamax of first-gen VR
The HTC Vive is up against the Oculus Rift and Sony's PlayStation VR in the race to be the best and most successful virtual reality headset. I'll say right here and now that as a piece of technology, it probably is the best, but that as a consumer device, it probably won't be the most successful.
Pros:
- Brilliantly immersive
- Can be worn at length
- Plenty of good games
Cons:
- Neither cheap nor simple
- Inevitably bulky & cumbersome
- Very few great games
10 years ago
HTC Vive virtual reality headset indepth review
At the end of my testing period with the Vive, as I look at it on my desk and consider how much I will use it now that I do not have to for work, I find myself in a bit of a love/hate relationship with it.
Pros:
- Room scale is hands down
- the best VR experience you can have
- Motion controllers make interaction in VR natural
- Tracking is almost flawless with proper sensor placement
- Chaperone gives you confidence to move around in VR
- Headset is comfortable over long play sessions
- Zero motion sickness...
Cons:
- Clearing space can be a pain
- especially in smaller British homes – but it is worth it
- Set up can be a bit fiddly
- Steam VR still crashes
- Lens contours can occasionally be seen in scenes with bright light sources
- Headset weighting needs improvement
- Crisp
- bright screen makes pixels a little more...
10 years ago
HTC Vive review
The HTC Vive is the sci-fi, virtual reality future we've all been waiting for, but if developers and content creators don't embrace it, all the technological innovation in the world won't save it from the scrapheap.
Pros:
- Incredibly immersive
Cons:
- Expensive
- Requires a lot of space
- Cabling can be awkward
- Lack of stand-out games and apps
10 years ago
HTC Vive review: Is room-sized VR worth the money
It's hard to compare the HTC Vive to anything. It doesn't have the games of the Oculus Rift yet, but the Vive's take on virtual reality is best in breed. No other VR headsets offer such an immersive virtual reality experience that you can wander around it, poke stuff and genuinely lose yourself in...
Pros:
- Room-scale VR is the one to beat
- Excellent
- intuitive controllers
- Comfortable and well-designed headset
Cons:
- Not enough content
- A bit laborious to set up
- Expensive
10 years ago
HTC Vive review
It asks more of you than Oculus does, but Vive also rewards you with an even more immersive, transformative VR experience
Pros:
- Room-scale is the best kind of VR
- Motion controllers make you feel even more immersed
- Steam support means it's easier to get games
Cons:
- Heavier
- less secure on your bonce than Oculus Rift
- Fiddly firmware and a mess of cables
- Currently lacking fully formed games
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