HTC has bet heavily on virtual reality with your Vive device. Vive is right now the best virtual reality experience of the moment by having certain characteristics such as that 4 x 4 meter space so that the user has great freedom. It was just yesterday when it could be bought in the presale after a year of prototypes and demonstrations.
Shen Ye, who works in the virtual reality section at HTC, says that more than 15.000 units of the Vive they were sold in less than 10 minutes. It is not clear how many units of Vives have been acquired since yesterday in total, but the new ones that are being sold will arrive in May, a month after the first units begin to be distributed.
The curious thing about these figures is that we are talking about the virtual reality device of higher price with about 899 euros, but this is not preventing thousands of users from wanting to experience this new horizon that is opening up before our feet and that was one of the keys at the Mobile World Congress held last week.
For HTC this is great news, since in these past years in which it has been suffering financial losses and that its smartphones have lagged a bit behind the competition, the search for new products has finally been fruitful so that in virtual reality it can find a new path.
A very new platform and in which there is still plenty of room to develop new ideas and incorporate them. The good thing about HTC is that it has the great experience of Valve, one of the key companies in the video game sector and that will surely open new horizons with new entertainment bets. If Valve were to release Half Life 3 in a version for HTC Vive, they would break it.