Arguably the most popular headset currently available, the HTC Vive was created by HTC (a smartphone and tablet manufacturer) and the Valve corporation (a gaming company, best known for the Steam game platform). Often compared directly to the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive does share many similarities in design, with slight differences that, in many developers' minds, make the HTC Vive the superior piece of hardware:
The following are the features of HTC Vive:
- Screen type: AMOLED
- Resolution: 1080 x 1200 per eye
- Field of view: 1100
- Head tracking: IMU (compass, accelerometer, gyroscope), 2 IR base stations
The minimum recommended PC specifications are as follows:
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290
- CPU: Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350
- RAM: 4 GB
- OS: Windows 7, Linux