HTC has just announced that its new Vive Pro headset will release next month, on April 5th. The HTC Vive Pro headset will be priced at $799, will support 2880×1600 resolution combined (1440 x 1600 resolution per eye) and will come with built-in headphones.
As the press release reads:
“The Vive Pro comes with dual-OLED displays making for a crisper image resolution of 2880 x 1600 combined, a 78% increase in resolution over the current Vive HMD. In addition to visuals, Vive Pro also features integrated, high-performance headphones with a built-in amplifier that creates a heightened sense of presence and sound through noise cancellation capabilities.”
HTC will also keep selling its previous headset, the HTC Vive, for $499. The HTC Vive supports 2160×1200 resolution (1080×1200 per eye), adjustable straps and interchangeable inserts, eye relief adjustments, integrated microphone and 110 degrees field of view.
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I need to get by a Best Buy and see if they have a headset on display for me to try out. People are spending some serious money on these headsets and if they have to buy a card to run that resolution then that’s another $800 – $1,000 right now.
People said years ago that the headsets would get cheaper over time as more and more people bought them but I wonder how many would spend this much?
The SteamVR 2.0 will dynamically scale the resolution if your GPU can’t handle it. If best buy doesn’t have it try the Microsoft Store, if they don’t have it just check out the Samsung Odyssey they have the same lenses as the Vive Pro and the some resolution. It’s a significant upgrade to be sure, but asking $800 without the knuckle controllers and the lighthouse 2.0 makes me scratch my head in wonder..
I still think it’s not gonna make it for one it’s still focused to much on gaming and I’m not sure a 800$ product on top of a 2000$ computer is really gonna make it I mean I’d want a high end 800$ monitor over this any day
Headsets are getting cheaper. Rift is half the price of this and I paid $450 for my Odyssey and its specs are the same as a Vive Pro. HTC is just losing their d##n minds.
Ah well, I guess I just won’t be investing into high quality VR on PC for up to a decade, if this is how the pricing format is going to go.
Dude, just get a Rift or any Windows Mixed Reality headsets. They’re around $400 out of the box. Don’t judge the VR market on HTC’s offerings. The company will probably be dead in 3 years.
Not really a fan of what the other headsets are doing.
Not a fan of relatively inexpensive, high-end VR headsets? lol Vive is trash. EXPENSIVE trash.
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It is true that the Valve design offers the best VR experience, but you will not be missing much if you went with alternatives especially the Samsung Odyssey it is a solid solution with the same resolution. Being the new kid on the block though WMR has to catch up with support on steamVR. In the meantime you can cross your fingers for an LG competitively priced SteamVR HMD. They’re big player and may be looking at the market size and sitting on the fence though..
That ridiculous. HTC killed the Vive brand.
On the subject of ‘killing brands’, I recently viewed Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Yeah, TLJ is atrocious. Im a massive fan of Star Wars, I even liked Episode 1-3.
Same here, I know why they called it the last Jedi it was the last one for me.
$799 ?
HTC is f##king nuts. I paid $450 for my Samsung Odyssey, with controllers/inside-out tracking and it’s just as good as this Vive Pro.
They need to start investing in their customer support, which is monumentally bad. This isn’t going to help the VR market. When you can get a Rift or any Windows Mixed Reality headset for half the price of a Vive Pro, it makes no sense to buy a Pro.
And Google, LG and other companies will be dropping legit headsets this year or next. HTC’s Vive can’t survive against that kind of competition.
To play what?
Well there are almost two hundred experiences on Steam.
http://store.steampowered.com/vr/
glad i sold vive, oculus is almost as good but $200 cheaper and feels like a finishedproduct more than a prototype.
glade they didnt rush controllers
The HTC Vive Pro with slight bump in resolution over my current Vive and Oculus Rift is not enough justify the purchase.
Glad I’ve pre-ordered my Pimax 8K X over this.
I’m hyped for Pimax. If it’s a decent upgrade over my Odyssey then I’ll get it.