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As promised back at the HTC Vive's announcement in early March, sign-up for the developer edition of the virtual reality headset is now available. Unlike developer kits for the Oculus Rift, Valve are providing the HTC Vive to game developers free of charge should they successfully pass a team and project screening process over on the application website.
While previously speculated, it has been revealed that the developer edition is not for sale in any capacity, forcing those not lucky enough to be in a position of acquiring one to wait until the consumer edition is available in "Holiday 2015". Only those who do receive developer editions will be able to discuss the headset and SteamVR in general over on the new SteamVR Development Hardware discussion forum, which is available for everyone to publicly read.
Once sign-ups are complete, developer kits will be shipped every few weeks over a period of several months throughout Spring and Summer 2015. This should hopefully give developers a 5-6 month window to begin developing or porting games to the device in order to get a nicely robust library prepared in time for the HTC Vive's public release later this year.
Once sign-ups are complete, developer kits will be shipped every few weeks over a period of several months throughout Spring and Summer 2015. This should hopefully give developers a 5-6 month window to begin developing or porting games to the device in order to get a nicely robust library prepared in time for the HTC Vive's public release later this year.
