{"id":110468,"date":"2016-11-11T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=110468"},"modified":"2016-11-11T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:23:08","slug":"htc-launches-pre-orders-for-wireless-vive-headset-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/110468-htc-launches-pre-orders-for-wireless-vive-headset-upgrade","title":{"rendered":"HTC launches pre-orders for wireless Vive headset upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HTC has opened pre-orders for\u00a0an upgrade kit for its Vive\u00a0virtual reality headset on the device\u2019s Chinese website, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uploadvr.com\/htc-vive-wireless-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">UploadVR reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The kit is made by TPCAST, one of the first of 33 companies to join the Vive X Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>According to HTC, the wireless upgrade will have no noticeable\u00a0impact on factors like latency.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-orders of TPCAST\u2019s wireless upgrade for the Vive will come with a\u00a0standard battery that is said to last about 1.5 hours, but HTC promised that a bigger battery will be sold in future.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0bigger battery would have to be placed\u00a0in your\u00a0pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The kit is expected\u00a0to ship from\u00a0Q1 2017, and the pre-order will be priced at RMB1,499 (R3,094).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vYMzuvjBbN4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/186683-htc-vive-wireless-upgrade-pre-orders-launched.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to PlayStation 4 Pro launch date and prices in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/110416-playstation-4-pro-launch-date-and-prices-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">PlayStation 4 Pro launch date and prices in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC has opened pre-orders for an upgrade kit for its Vive virtual reality headset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":110470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,4855,17630],"class_list":["post-110468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-htc","tag-vive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}