HTC Vive Now Up For Pre-Order

<p>HTC&&num;8217&semi;s newest venture into virtual reality&comma; the HTC VIVE&comma; is now available for pre-order on the system&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;htcvive&period;com&sol;us&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">official website<&sol;a>&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re uncertain about your computer&&num;8217&semi;s ability to use Vive Steam has an application that consumers can use to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;323910&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">test out their hardware<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vive is being powered with SteamVR&semi; Steam released the recommended specs for the hardware&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul class&equals;"bb&lowbar;ul">&NewLine;<li><strong>OS&colon;<&sol;strong> Windows 7 SP1&comma; Windows 8&period;1&comma; or Windows 10<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Processor&colon;<&sol;strong> Intel® i5-4590 &sol; AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Memory&colon;<&sol;strong> 4 GB RAM<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Graphics&colon;<&sol;strong> NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 &sol; AMD Radeon™ R9 290 equivalent or greater<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Like the Vive the Oculus Rift requires at least an Intel i5&comma; but unlike it&&num;8217&semi;s competitor&comma; the Rift requires 8 GB Rams and three USB 3&period;0 ports plus one USB 2&period;0 port&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Vive will run buyers in the US &dollar;829 after shipping and Canadian buyers &dollar;1214 after shipping&period; The system will ship with two games&comma; although HTC says that they will be bundled &&num;8216&semi;for a limited time&&num;8217&semi;&comma; they did not give a time frame for when they may pull the bundle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li><b>Job Simulator&colon; The 2050 Archives<&sol;b>&comma; by Owlchemy Labs&colon; In a firmly tongue-in-cheek world where robots have replaced all human jobs&comma; step into the &OpenCurlyQuote;Job Simulator’ to learn what it was like &&num;8216&semi;to job&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b>Fantastic Contraption<&sol;b>&comma; by Northway Games in collaboration with Radial Games&colon; Imagine walking around a grassy island floating in the sky&comma; building a machine the size of a horse with your own hands&comma; and then watching it roll out into the world&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>I got a chance to try the Vive last year&comma; HTC showed off a few hands-on demos including the aforementioned Job Simulator game&comma; I walked away impressed by the precision of the controls and the immersion as GLaDOS destroyed the room around me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;102974" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-102974" style&equals;"width&colon; 710px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03205809&sol;MG&lowbar;0288&period;jpg" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-102974"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-102974" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03205809&sol;MG&lowbar;0288-1024x683&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Those lucky enough to try Vive had to reserve spots by time blocks" width&equals;"710" height&equals;"474" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-102974" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Those lucky enough to try Vive had to reserve spots by time blocks<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>HTC Vive will start shipping in May&comma; users can pay by credit card or PayPal&period; According to the official Vive website oders includes the Vive headset&comma; two wireless controllers&comma; two base stations&comma; link box&comma; earbuds&comma; Vive accessories&comma; <em>Job Simulator<&sol;em> game&comma; <em>Tilt Brush<&sol;em> by Google and the <em>Fantastic Contraption<&sol;em> game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;