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HTC Announces New Education Partnerships, VR Ad Service And More For HTC Vive

HTC Corporation today announced a series of new partnerships for the HTC Vive at the start of the 2017 Vive Ecosystem Conference (VEC2017). Ranging from virtual reality (VR) content development to education initiatives, the VEC2017 event has kicked-off the HTC Vive’s second year as a consumer product with a bang.

Sony Patent Pointing Toward VR-Focused Redesign for PlayStation Move

The filings which VR Focus first spotted show that the redesign is looking to incorporate PlayStation VR with PlayStation Move which can be seen in a recent patent filing from earlier this month and a patent filed in 2017.

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Consumer HTC Vive to be Revealed in October, 2015 Release Reassured

Jeffrey Gattis, Executive Director of Global Marketing at the company, confirmed as much in an interview shot by HTC that can be seen below. “We’re targeting October for an announcement of our consumer version where we’ll unveil what the actual final idea looks like, the final controllers and should have a pretty decent view of what our content line-up will be like at launch,” Gattis confirmed.

We had of course already heard that this content line-up would be revealed in this timeframe, but this is the first mention of hardware reveals. This might seem to be a pretty tight timeframe between announcement and release, with only 2 months left in 2015 once the details are revealed. Keep in mind, though, that HTC is first and foremost a smartphone manufacturer, involved an industry that typically has a much shorter waiting period between announcement and release than within the videogame industry.