HTC Vive Reduces Price By $200

[Mindweaver]

Funny you should say that, I'm an Oculus Rift owner (due to the ~$399 sale) and while I like it I think I would prefer the HTC Vive.

One can hope that the LG Steam VR HMD (which uses the same Vive Lighthouse tracking) is introduced at a reasonable and typically lower price. The Steam Knuckles controllers will be be every bit as intuitive and fun to use as the look. The Oculus Touch controllers are great but I think that Vive took it a step further with Knuckles.


I seem to recall hearing that the Acer / Microsoft mixed reality HMD was already available via the Microsoft store but only developers could buy it.

Don't get me wrong I very much enjoy my Vive and I can't wait to buy the new knuckles controllers, but I would be hard pressed to buy a Vive + DAS + Knuckles over the $399 Rift. I bought the DAS and while I prefer it over the old strap, it's hard to justify the 99 dollar asking price. Plus, lighthouse 2.0 will not be compatible with the current Vive, but 2.0 is not out yet. It only adds the ability to set them up with more than 2x light houses in multiple rooms. The tracking is just as good in the current lighthouse, but only works with 2x light houses. Hopefully, the new LG Steam HMD will come with Lighthouse 2.0 and knuckles, but at the moment only Valve is manufacturing the Knuckles.

Yea, you can get the acer dev kit, but I wouldn't suggest doing that right now. The CV1 will have a few upgrades like thinker padding, and it looks like a built in mic from the leaked pictures.