HTC and Valve Announce UK Pricing for Vive

HTC, in partnership with Valve, has unveiled the UK pricing and a third title for the consumer edition of its Vive virtual reality system.

With a global reveal at Mobile World Congress this week, for a limited time the consumer edition will now ship with three fully-fledged VR experiences:

• Tilt Brush, by Google: Paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless.

• Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives, by Owlchemy Labs: In a firmly tongue-in-cheek world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the 'Job Simulator' to learn what it was like 'to job'.

• Fantastic Contraption, by Northway Games in collaboration with Radial Games: Imagine walking around a grassy island floating in the sky, building a machine the size of a horse with your own hands, and then watching it roll out into the world.

The Vive consumer edition will be available to pre-order from 29th February, with pre-order fulfilment and full commercial availability on 5th April. Priced at £689.00, the Vive is the first complete VR solution, including two wireless VR controllers, room scale movement sensors, and an HMD featuring a built in camera and phone services, plus the three VR titles.