HTC’s Vive VR headsets are now with developers

And the development phase for HTC’s virtual reality headset goes into full swing. The Valve and HTC-made Vive has finally started making its way to developers. The developer kits are being shipped to the likes of movie studios and game developers with key components like two Lighthouse base stations, which is the mounted hardware the Vive needs to locate and track users in a room; two wireless Steam VR handheld controllers; cables; and “everything else needed to get started.”

Although it is a bit worrying when it comes to the timeframe these developer kits started to arrive to the developers. HTC Vive was touted with a late 2015 release so with half of the year done, there isn’t that much time left to ship the apps. All we can do now is wait and see.

Source: ReadWrite.com

Steam readies recommendation tags for gamers

Steam is helping you make your next purchase with its new tagging feature. The recommendation tags were previously beta tested and are now ready for everyone’s use. You can visit a product’s page and browse the tags to see other games similar to what you are viewing. You can create your own tags but Valve is working on consolidating tags with similar themes and are working on getting rid those that aren’t useful. 

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