HTC and Valve take on Oculus Rift with Vive virtual reality headset
by Stuart Dredge from Technology | The Guardian on (#43RT)
Standalone device will go head-to-head with Facebook's $2bn VR headset by the end of 2015, when both will have released commercial editions
Games firm Valve has made its long-anticipated move into virtual reality, teaming up with HTC for the Vive VR headset, which will launch later in 2015.
It's the second move into hardware for Valve - best known for the Steam digital games service as well as games like Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead - with the company also developing its Steam Machine console.
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