HTC Closer To Make Virtual Reality Dream Come True

(RTTNews) - HTC Corp on Sunday announced plans to bring mass-market virtual reality one step closer.

The Taiwanese smartphone maker said that through a strategic partnership with game developer Valve Corp, the company seeks to transform the way in which consumers interact with technology and the world around them with the debut of HTC Vive. HTC Vive Developer Edition will be launched this Spring, with the consumer edition available by the end of 2015.

Vive combines Valve's Steam virtual reality tracking and input technologies with HTC's design and engineering talent.

Cher Wang, Chairwoman of HTC, said, "It's rare that a company has an opportunity to forever transform the ways in which people interact with the world and communicate with each other, but that is exactly what we plan to do with Valve."