HTC VIVE Pro Starter Edition- Virtual Reality System

Works well at first, but mysterious driver updates completely break functionality. Completely restoring your PC sometimes works, sometimes doesnt. Stay away from HTC.

the base station failed from manufacturing defects?,and the support are unable to ship it back to the requested address and i have to pay for the shipping

Put about 2k hours on my Pro and Im left with some very mixed feelings. There has been an overall lack of support for this product by HTC and they have completely suspended production on them. The proprietary cable was an ABSOLUTE mistake. An $80 cable that dies after 400-500 hours of regular use is INSANE. Worse than that the head-strap. Although the halo style band is comfortable and fits to the head very securely it is VERY fragile given the right circumstances. At 800 hours I dropped the headset from chest height onto its side horizontally and it completely snapped clean. Thats not the worst of it however because getting a replacement for the head-strap is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE. These arent made anymore and any site that was selling replacements have been sold out for well over a year or more. The headphones were really nice, sounded great and very comfortable. Unfortunately I had to remove mine as the leads to the left ear cup were ripped out when I snapped the head-strap. Theres no auxiliary out on the headset so Im forced to run a 3 meter auxiliary cord to get functional headphones and it gets tangled up with the Pro cable constantly. The displays themselves look FANTASTIC and coming from no VR experience to the Pro was really perspective changing. As time has gone on the Im wearing goggles tunnel effect has gotten worse and worse and now I cant help but notice it. Wish the FOV was a little wider. Included controllers were okay, and I still give them to first time players to jump them in. Some games are better with the wands but Ive since started using the Knuckles, which I prefer. Honestly the only reason I bought into this headset was because the Valve headset was sold out during lock-down. Wish I would have waited as the Index complete kit cost LESS than I paid for the Pro. It also doesnt use a proprietary cable and has a wider FOV. Oh well, I enjoyed the time I spent with mine getting introduced into VR but I should have been a little more patient. If HTC wouldnt have made this thing abandonware well before I bought it I might be a return customer. Fortunately though Ive learned my lesson and will probably be buying an Index.

Product sounds and display are not functional well. I got scratches on the display and the headphones are with white noise

Really great product

Bought this to test play my VR game that I have been working on. The high resolution is what made me get this VR headset instead of others. Setup is easy and quick. Only bad thing the mic constantly cuts out will work for a moment after disabling then enabling then cuts out agian.

Its an awesome VR headset, it is a little difficult to config it properly, also, you should check if your hardware is compatible (including cables). But, when you correctly set up it, then you will have an awesome product. Beware of space and room conditions beforehand, too many windows/light may cause interference in tracking.

This Generation One unit needs more development and Q&A. With very little use, after a few weeks one of the sensors went bad. The software is unintuitive, sketchy, and often a kludge - leading to much research on the part of the user to get and keep it operational. Wait until the price drops. A *lot*.

I received an opened product with missing parts. The product arrived late and I had to deal with this. I’ll update the review when this gets resolved and actually get to use the product. Can’t believe HTC did this.

Ive wasted enough time on this thing. The software sucks. The firmware sucks. One day when VR headsets are plug and play theyll be worth using, but right now Im 2 hours in to trying to figure out why my base stations have vanished again. Im done.