HTC announced that its Vive virtual reality or VR platform and headset received accolades from the Popular Science Magazine, as the 2015 Popular Science Best of What's New Innovation of the Year and the 2015 Popular Sicent Best of What's New Grand Award in the Entertainment category.
For more than 25 years, the Popular Science editorial team has been recognizing technologies which are set to change the world, awarding products for their innovation and execution, or those that solved a difficult problem, transform categories, revolutionary and brought entirely new ideas.
The editorial team features the top 100 innovations in the magazine's list of the Best of What's New. This year, the HTC Vive VR headset topped the overall list and achieved Grand Award in the Entertainment category.
CNN Money said it is due to the realism and detail of the virtual worlds created via Vive. Instrumental to its success is noted by Popular Science, "Virtual reality is not that real if you can't walk around and interact with the world. The HTC Vive is the first virtual-reality system to offer that level of immersion."
HTC's upcoming Vive VR headset will offer the most immersive VR experience, to bring people to another world with its full room scale 360 degree solution, plus tracked controllers to help the user get up, explore a virtual space, inspect things from every angle, walk around and truly interact with the surroundings.
Popular Science Editor-in-Chief Cliff Ranson stated they honor the innovations that surprise and amaze them, or which challenged the way they look at what is the future's possibility. "The award is Popular Science's top prize, and the 100 winners - chosen from among thousands of nominees - are each a revolution in their respective fields." Ransom quipped.
The launch of HTC Vive VR headset is currently set on April 2016, instead of the previous December 2015 schedule. On Friday, during the Vive Unbound developers forum held in Beijing, HTC CEO Cher Wang said that her team and Valve "a very, very big technological breakthrough" with Vive that they decided to skip December and pushed or April instead.
"We shouldn't make our users swap their systems later just so we could meet the December shipping date."
Engadget noted that the price is another mystery thing for the upcoming HTC Vive VR headset. The VR headset will be unveiled at CES next month.
