{"id":86652,"date":"2016-03-01T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86652"},"modified":"2016-03-01T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:05:51","slug":"in-the-first-10-minutes-of-pre-orders-htc-sold-over-15000-vives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86652-in-the-first-10-minutes-of-pre-orders-htc-sold-over-15000-vives","title":{"rendered":"In the first 10 minutes of pre-orders, HTC sold over 15,000 Vives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having quite <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86634-htc-vive-to-cost-more-than-799-when-it-eventually-launches-locally.html\" target=\"_blank\">a high price tag<\/a>, HTC\u2019s virtual reality (VR) headset, the Vive, is selling very well if pre-orders are anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the HTC Vive was coming in at second place to the Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>However, the VR headset has gained some traction thanks to launching with motion controllers and a focused tracking system, which is more suited to the scale of an actual person\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/components\/vr\/jon-martindale\/htc-sold-more-than-15000-vives-in-first-10-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\">KitGuru<\/a>, the pre-ordering process was close to seamless and didn\u2019t take as much time to pre-order when compared to the Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, over 15,000 HTC Vives were sold within the first 10 minutes of pre-orders going live.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by HTC VR developer, Shen Ye, who revealed the number of units sold on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Woah, more than 15k units in less than 10min \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shen Ye (@shen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shen\/status\/704427559530983425\">February 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If we estimated the final number of HTC Vives sold, it would probably be less than the sales of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the Oculus Rift has been far more heavily marketed and branded than the HTC Vive. But nonetheless, this is still a great achievement for the HTC Vive.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below, where one HTC Vive pre-order owner made use of 3D painting application Tilt Brush (included free with the Vive launch bundle) to create a painting of Valve CEO Gabe Newell.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q62itwdVD6o\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gabe has never looked better in our opinion. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Tell us below in the comments section and forum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/components\/vr\/jon-martindale\/htc-sold-more-than-15000-vives-in-first-10-minutes\/\">KitGuru<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More On The HTC Vive<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86634-htc-vive-to-cost-more-than-799-when-it-eventually-launches-locally.html\">HTC\u00a0Vive\u00a0to cost more than $799 when it eventually launches locally<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86430-the-most-expensive-vr-system-yet-htc-vive-priced-at-r12300.html\">The most expensive VR system yet:\u00a0HTC\u00a0Vive\u00a0priced at R12,300<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/73015-valve-gets-into-virtual-reality-with-htc-vive.html\">Valve gets into virtual reality with\u00a0HTC\u00a0Vive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC Vives are selling like hotcakes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":86656,"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":[2],"tags":[4855,13341,1969,6049,17408,6477],"class_list":["post-86652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-htc","tag-htc-vive","tag-news-2","tag-oculus-rift","tag-virtual-reality-headset","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}