{"id":1040,"date":"2016-01-05T23:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/htc-vive-pre-is-a-killer-vr-experience\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:13:51","slug":"htc-vive-pre-is-a-killer-vr-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/htc-vive-pre-is-a-killer-vr-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC Vive Pre is a killer VR experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Htc-vive-thumb-1\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA1LzY5L0hUQ1ZpdmV0aHVtLmRkNGEwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/84f60371\/966\/HTC-Vive-thumb-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=HTC+Vive+Pre+is+a+killer+VR+experience&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Fhtc-vive-pre-hands-on%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Fhtc-vive-pre-hands-on%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/04\/oculus-pre-order-february\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Oculus Rift<\/a>, you\u2019re on notice.<\/p>\n<p>HTC \u2014 which has been teasing its own virtual reality headset for almost a year \u2014 has really delivered with its updated version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/07\/18\/htc-vive-hands-on\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Vive<\/a>, a called the Vive Pre. I got a chance to experience the new Vive at a demo at CES 2016, and it\u2019s extremely compelling. Although the level of sophistication isn\u2019t appreciably different from Oculus, HTC has introduced a couple of important conveniences that make all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>First things first: The struggling HTC is pinning a lot of hopes to the Vive, is a fully immersive VR system. It\u2019s been delayed for months, which has let Samsung capture a lot of the early buzz around VR with its <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gear-vr\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gear VR<\/a> headsets, which you can actually buy right now. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/05\/htc-vive-pre-hands-on\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/htc\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Htc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/vr\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Vr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/virtual-reality\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Virtual Reality<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/vive\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Vive<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/RYGwbdFbf_U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Oculus Rift, you\u2019re on notice. HTC \u2014 which has been teasing its own virtual reality headset for almost a year \u2014 has really delivered with its updated version of the Vive, a called the Vive Pre. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/htc-vive-pre-is-a-killer-vr-experience\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584,1,37,291,585,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-htc","category-other","category-tech","category-virtual-reality","category-vive","category-vr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}