Yesterday, the headset HTC Vive virtual reality was available for pre-order and the first batch of 15 000 units was sold out within ten minutes. When the headset price of $ 799 it turns out that HTC has earned about $ 12 million in the blink of an eye.
HTC spokesman Shen E (Shen Ye) confirmed in his Twitter as a large volume of pre-orders. Cher Wang also wrote in his Twitter account that the HTC Vive received "a response" at the stage of pre-sales. For HTC this long-awaited event, which gives the company a chance to get out of the difficult financial situation, irrespective of the success of the forthcoming HTC One M10 flagship smartphone.
Recall that in HTC Vive supplied in addition to the virtual reality helmet includes a pair of controllers, as well as a pair of base stations of the laser motion tracking system. For comfortable work with the headset user will need at least a system with a processor Intel Core i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350, which will add 4 GB of RAM and a graphics card NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970 or AMD R9 290.