| Title | Valve to Offer HTC Vive Developer Edition for Free | |
| Date | Monday March 30 2015, @11:12AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the small-additional-charge-for-a-virtual-schnoz dept. | ||
According to a report in Ars Technica , Valve is offering the HTC Vive VR Developer Edition free to qualified developers:
With its Rift development kit program, Oculus has charged $300 to $350 to tens of thousands of developers (and doubtless some ultra-early-adopting consumers) who wanted to get their hands on early versions of the headset. Valve is going in a different direction with the Vive VR headset it's developing in conjunction with HTC, offering an early Developer Edition for free to qualified developers.
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Approved developers will get a Developer Edition kit that "will be free, at least initially," Lombardi said. Those kits will start shipping later in the spring as part of an "ongoing effort" to get the development hardware out widely ahead of a planned 2015 consumer launch. The decision to release it for free is interesting given that HTC Connected Products Marketing Executive Director Jeff Gattis recently said consumers should expect "a slightly higher price point" for the final version of the hardware.
Also covered at Tom's Hardware and Hot Hardware.
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