HTC Vive Base Station

Worked like a new one

So I honestly dont know how to rate these. The things arent cheap, you obviously need them for tracking, and when they work they just work, but when they die its a hassle. The only thing can be said about their regular normal use is they can be slightly annoying. They have two spinning motors in them which hum and buzz, and can seem to be loud and annoying at certain times and almost inaudible at others. If you have them attached to lighthouse poles in your room or have them hard-mounted on a wall or something similar they can make some noise and vibrate. However, these lighthouses seem to have an unknown probability value. I personally had one die after less than 2 years of light use (less than 72 hours run time/in-game time), I had one replacement arrive DOA with the same issue as I was needing to replace the dead one (bad laser diode), and youll find countless threads online of these things kicking the bucket at seemingly random times and without warning, along with horror stories from HTCs customer service. Youll also find people saying theyve used theirs pretty heavily for years and theyre still going strong, or someone whos had one for commercial use thats had the thing running nonstop for years and it still works. So its sort of playing Russian Roulette with these things. Is yours going to die one week after the warranty expires on it? Is it going to die after 3 months and youre forced to deal with the legendarily horrible HTC support? Will it last 10 years and you never have a problem? Flip a coin and find out. Another problem that may or may not appear over time with failure rates on these is that the original Vive which has now been discontinued cannot use the version 2.0 tracking base stations, its only compatible with these 1.0 versions. There are no real 3rd party options for these things, so if the production of these is stopped and failure rates remain unknown but a definite eventuality due to moving parts, you may be forced into upgrading sooner than you planned to, or replacement parts may continue to rise in price if production is stopped due to the discontinuation of the original Vive.

I purchased this to use with a Pimax 5K Plus VR headset. It works as advertised.

Works well

I love the vive! I had a manufacturing malfunction with my other base station and this worked perfectly!

Works great, plug-in replacement, no room set up needed if youre just replacing a bad basestation/lighthouse.

Item stopped working after 1 1/2 months, it looked brand new and worked great then it randomly stopped connecting to my computer and won’t track my trackers anymore. I tired updating and resetting it multiple times and nothing has worked. Extremely disappointed as this was my graduation gift.

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My first one broke in my first week of owning it this one for being apparently used was in amazing condition and still works perfectly two months after purchase

The Base Station is for my sons VR and it works perfect. No problem with the order or the transport, it was very easy and we got it within three weeks. Nothing to complain about. Anne from Sweden