Jointly developed by HTC and Valve, the VR virtual reality headset is dedicated to providing users with an immersive virtual reality experience and was unveiled at the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelola

HTC Vive is a VR headset (virtual reality head-mounted display) product jointly developed by HTC and Valve, which was released at the MWC2015 in March 2015. Thanks to the technical support provided by Valve's SteamVR, it is already possible to experience virtual reality games that take advantage of Vive's capabilities on the Steam platform.

HTC Vive is committed to providing users with an immersive experience through three parts: a head-mounted display, two single-handed controllers, and a positioning system (Lighthouse) that can track both the display and the controller in the space.

On the headset, the HTC Vive Developer Edition features an OLED display with an effective resolution of 1200 x 1080 per eye and 2160 x 1200 binocular combined. The 2K resolution greatly reduces the graininess of the picture, and the screen effect is almost imperceptible to the user. And you can wear a headset while wearing glasses, even if you don't wear glasses, you can still see the details of the picture clearly with about 400 degrees of myopia. The picture refresh rate is 90Hz, and the data for March this year shows a latency of 22ms, and the actual experience is almost zero lag, and I don't feel nauseous and dizzy.

The Lighthouse controller positioning system is based on Valve's patent, which does not require the use of a camera, but relies on a laser and a light-sensitive sensor to determine the position of a moving object, which means that the HTC Vive allows the user to move around within a certain range. This is the biggest difference between it and the other two major headsets, Oculus Rift and PS VR.