And that's just to make sure you don't run into walls. What VR developers will do now that there's a camera mounted on our face is what's really exciting.
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It's been some 10 months since HTC and Valve first announced the . And in that time we've talked a good bit about this whole-room virtual reality experience. How practical it might be. (Or not.) How much it'll cost. (We still don't know.) Or — and this one from the more skeptical among us — whether this promise of a a futuristic VR will ever really come to fruition. While inexpensive (and much more simple) VR experiences from Google Cardboard and Samsung's Gear VR (powered by Oculus, which is finally ) have been available for some time now, a good number of us have been waiting (not so) patiently for this virtual future we've been promised.
It's not here yet. At least not for the paying public. But with the announcement of the HTC Vive Pre — the next-generation prototype from HTC and Valve — we're getting much closer.
I took the Vive Pre for a spin here at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. This is what the future is like.
