{"id":117679,"date":"2017-05-18T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117679"},"modified":"2017-05-18T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:03:26","slug":"htc-vive-unveils-standalone-vr-headset-for-google-daydream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/117679-htc-vive-unveils-standalone-vr-headset-for-google-daydream","title":{"rendered":"HTC Vive unveils standalone VR headset for Google Daydream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Daydream platform has expanded to support standalone VR headsets, and HTC Vive will build one of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vive.com\/us\/product\/standalone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first devices<\/a><\/strong> compatible with the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The VR headset will not require a connected phone or PC to be used, as all the necessary hardware\u00a0is built into the unit.<\/p>\n<p>Users will also be able to use the headset without connecting any cables, unlike the current HTC Vive headset \u2013 which requires multiple tethered connections to a PC.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the standalone Vive VR headset will launch later this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/211236-htc-vive-reveals-standalone-vr-headset.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/207372-search-added-to-google-earth-vr.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Search added to Google Earth VR<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Daydream platform has expanded to support standalone VR headsets, and HTC Vive will build one of the first devices compatible with the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":110470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[24423,1638,4855,17630],"class_list":["post-117679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-daydream","tag-google","tag-htc","tag-vive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117679","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\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117679\/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=117679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}