Pros: awesome experience, great library, pretty easy setup through steam

I would recommend this to anyone who wants the best VR experience.

You will get a much better experience

Resist those urges, you will have a much better experience if your lighthouses are setup correctly first

That will probably not be a great experience

When you factor in room scale, it is a whole new experience as well

Exceeds expectations, really spectacular experience.

Well designed games/experiences will keep you in this immersed experience for hours

X-Plane 11 was truly my favorite, because not only was I not expecting a great experience, but it's done really well -

Looking at the controllers reacting to your hands is completely surreal - the movement appears to be perfect once you set your lighthouses up correctly (I recommend using the lighthouse sync cable for the best experience possible

As with all new technology, the price is a bit high and the product has room for improvement, but the current experience is well worth the price tag for those who can afford it

and I still have an amazing experience with very little and infrequent frame-rate stuttering

VR!Works well out of the box, however for the best experience make sure to grab a pair of stands and adapters to mount the lighthouses on

It's a great experience overall

The two together make for an amazing underwater experience

Fantastic experience!

For the best experience you'll need a fairly large empty space

Truly an amazing experience if you can afford it

I don't have it yet, but Job Simulator looks hilarious, and Accounting is a freebie I thought was too short-lived but was definitely a good experience

This is heartbreaking because owning a vive has been the most exciting gaming experience of my life

Oh also, the whole setup process is a bit of a task in itself lol, took me like an hour to take everything out, plug everything in, install the firmware, and get the vr system configured, but the experience is well worth it

I ordered it directly from HTC when it first came out, and it has been an amazing experience that has only gotten better and better!

I've already racked up over 60 games but feel like I can't even keep up with the weekly releases (or that I have to, as I have PLENTY of ground to cover in the games/experiences/alternate-lives I've picked up already).If you can swing this - even if it means surviving on ramen for a few months - your hunger for an unparalleled virtual experience will be more that sated.

This is one of the best experiences video games can give you to date and if you have the means and the knowledge and really want that VR roomscale experience then go and buy what are you waiting for!

My wife loves the Vive, even when she had a bad experience with motion sickness with the Rift DK2.

The lighthouse tracking system works great, and it was the best gaming experience i have ever had, BUT- buyer be warned... anything beyond occasional use will render every part of this thing a brick

Overall the Vive is a worthwhile experience, but beware of the false promises made by Amazon for free games.

VR is such a great experience, and I encourage those who want to get into it with friends to definitely take the leap

Previous attempts at virtual reality fell flat as they lacked the resolution and refresh rate to give a nausea-free experience

If you want reliable full RoomScale experiences then you should choose the Vive as your HMD.The last thing I want to point out might not pertain to

All that being said, it's an incredible experience, you get a point of view no one else gets

The experience was impressive and i cannot see myself playing it any other way from now on, that is if you can get over the " screen door" effect

Vive truly gives you beyond a solid experience, especially with its Room-Scale VR, Oculus doesn't even come close here

The best virtual reality experience I have ever had

This makes for an incredible gaming experience.

Overall, this is a great experience and worth buying into

You would expect the technology advanced since the 80's to allow far better resolution, but the experience is really lousy

oh my personal experiences/issues (both positive and negative)PROS: Definitely feels like the future

This is the best experience in gaming you can get right now

Great experience and product setup was not nearly as bad as some others say.

A major limitation at the moment is that most experiences are both overpriced and under-achieving, in that they tend to be short, with even the best experiences lasting only hours.

My experience with the Vive has been so positive, however, that I feel compelled to write something.

Pros:-It's an experience that is truly unique to any other gaming system out there

Great experience that i love to show to my friends, best investment for my own enjoyment.

It will be a great experience down the road when all the bugs are worked out

Cons:-Price (obviously).-Lack of content with replay value.-Resolution.-Mask area is prone to get sweaty, if you're playing physically engaging game, (i.e. Audioshield)-Several glitches using the menu interface going in between games.-Space required to achieve the optimal experience

Out of the box it's kind of a neat experience, and then you throw up a real killer app for the first

once you plug in the sensors you got to run a room setup, the better you set it up the better your experience.

Absolutely an amazing experience, it has a bunch of cables though so make sure you have the ports and the space.

Great experience during the time the headset worked

In summary, the HTC Vive is an amazing experience, combine that with an insanely simple set up and high quality parts put into the

Incredible experience.

Without content I’ve been relegated to mediocre experiences

The experiences to be had with the Vive are incredible, bordering on profound

If you have more space, it will definitely be a much better experience

It is such a fun and awesome experience and am extremely happy with my purchase!!!!

Love my headset and the experiences I've had.

I would definitely recommend this device to others... simply put, it is an amazing experience and I am greatly looking forward to watching the VR industry mature - great stuff

The VIBEs really give extraordinary virtual reality experience.

As I said up top, the experience is amazing and definitely worth the aggravation

But even still, the overall experience is great, novel, unique, fun, and genuinely mind blowing.

Its a very fun experience but as a warning the minimum specs for games maybe higher than the minimum required to operate the headset.

My family and I have enjoyed our overall experience with the VIVE.

It's a great experience and getting better each week with new and better games.

The experience you’ll have using this device is like none other, just make sure you have a capable PC

wonderful VR experience and be sure to buy it directly from HTC's Vive website

My first experience with a friends Vive blew me away.

so your experience is smooth and judder-free, if so, you will soon be addicted as well.

I've enjoyed my experiences with VR, but I don't think I'm willing to drop another 135 dollars to keep playing.

The family liked it, I'm sure they would have had a better experience without the disappointing wait, trials and errors, and overall lack of games if you haven't broken the bank yet

I love it it’s an amazing experience

Has using this product been THE most magical experience I've ever had in my 20 years of gaming

no, the experience continue to blow my mind and make it so very hard to go back to play conventional games on a flat monitor after experiencing VR

The price tag is steep and I can't say it was a completely responsible purchase, but if you have the money to spend it is a solid experience.

So let me start by saying that using the vive has been one of the most incredible gaming experiences of my life

If you have the money and want an incredible experience--I highly recommend the Vive!

But my experience with HTC customer service is so bad, I dread trying to do that

It's currently the best VR experience on the consumer market thanks to its room scale positional tracking.

At first I realised this when playing the great but unfortunately short mountaineering experience "Everest VR" with the Vive

Slightly pricey for the average person sure, but there are unlimited experiences to explore.

The Vive creates an incredible virtual reality experience that allows you to move about a pre-defined space, it's highly responsive and an experience that is hard to describe but absolutely addictive

The experience is just so incredible that going back to a regular monitor just isn't all that appealing

You will have an experience greater than what you think you will have.

The experience is clearer and more exhilarating than the videos you'll see though

It is a great experience.

so maybe wait for the better experience

if you want it now, it is an amazing experience.

But even still, the overall experience is great, novel, unique, fun, and genuinely mind blowing.

THIS IS THE GREATEST TECH EXPERIENCE

The Rift is fully supported by the Steam store, so you have access to all the games on Steam (and the frequent Steam Sales!) as well as the exclusives on Oculus' store (which are excellent).I feel that the Vive has a better room-scale experience, though.

But on the other hand, you're taking an already-expensive platform and requiring even more money to squeeze out the best experience

My prior experience was a complete lack of compatible titles, but a quick look on both Steam and Viveport show that there are hundreds of compatible titles for the Vive

Well worth the money it is a amazing experience

The experience is amazing and once you have had a few hours in your games the controls become very intuitive

While playing any of the games I tried out in VR was an incredible experience, none of them had any replay value whatsoever; this is by the far the heavy hitting negative toward the Vive

Truly a phenomenal experience

Virtual Reality (the Vive especially) is an incredible experience

The cost is steep (even at $100 off for Black Friday) but the experience is astonishing

, I know you are really worried and frustrated at this point, trust me, but we are keen to resolve this as much as you are, please give us one more week and as soon as we get any additional detail we will reach you back with it."I would not reccomend anyone buy from this supplier based on this horrible customer experience

An Absolute must have for the best VR Experience.

I am sure I am also at fault taking things for granted from the supplier, nevertheless, unpleasant experience.

Anyhow, like the others stated, until you use one or try it, I can't put the experience into writing

Experience is fine but hardware is crap

The Vive has not always been a smooth experience for me

Isn't to say you don't get an amazing experience now - you do, but just with stipulations

But the better the hardware, the nicer the experience

Overall the experience is great, but deffinetly do some research and watch YouTube reviews and comparisons to the oculus rift (very similar product)

Without it everything works, but I had trouble with stuttering every so often, which really disrupts the whole experience.

Wow, if you want a truly great VR experience try this!

The experience I had with the device in general was not that good

It's a completely bizarre experience, but the games are almost all universally intuitive (be sure to get games with a "very positive", or "overwhelmingly positive" rating - this is easy to do, i have around 20-30 of them now after only a month with this product - these all collectively set me back around $100.

Even moving aside a couch in a living room to play is preferable to a smaller space, as the freedom to move is such an experience

Although pricey, there is no experience that can truly compare to that offered by the HTC Vive

Besides the small cons, In all honesty, the whole experience is insane and too breathtaking for me to be able to describe, you simply have to try it for your

This experience was not worth $700

Dangerous, thinking I wouldn't really be doing a lot of roomscale gaming or experiences, but I find I am using it for lots of great roomscale games and experiences

It has been an amazing experience so far

The experience you get from this is awesome but my main complaints are the time it takes to setup and get working

VR is great and our initial experience was wonderful but about 5 months in, one of the hand sets stopped pairing despite all efforts to re pair with the system

Having used 3D viewing since shutter glasses on VGA CRT monitors, this completely blows the other experiences away.

While I have used functioning Vive headsets before and the experience is great

While all of the headsets have provided me with positive experiences

Sure there are still a few kinks to work out with everything, but the entire experience is just mindblowingly incredible and we all can't wait to play with it again every day!

Now with purchasing the Vive I was very excited yet slightly concerned about what problems many people have faced, while the product may be on the steep side; if you are very confident that what you have can handle the hardware and have the right idea on your pay space and are even remotely tech savvy and ready to tinker around without feeling annoyed then I'll say you will have a great experience

The experience is sincerely amazing, and it's a blast to share that experience with friends and family

I downloaded most of the popular free VR games and they're all great experiences

That being said you will need some space to get the best experience possible.

Vive offers an awesome virtual reality experience!

It's a cool first-time experience, eventually, it gets old

If you want a good virtual reality experience you should get the vive.

Overall the Vive is a worthwhile experience, but beware of the false promises made by Amazon for free games.

an incredible experience

I think if I had worse eyesight it may have actually been a better experience

When considering spending a couple hundred on entertainment, you really want to have the best experience

An absolutely surreal experience

HTC Vive and VR are an incredible experience

Also, try to get a Nvidia 980 or AMD 480 graphics card or better in your computer for the best experience

Replaced my Oculus DK2 with these and its a much much better experience.

but... they manually review, and you have to plead through chat in order to get the RMA.Good product, but poor customer service experience

BUT ITS A GREAT EXPERIENCE.

I have had better customer experience with Spectrum cable than HTC.

Pretty good experience overall

I acquired the Audio Head Strap and this resolved the balance issue for a much more enjoyable experience (and a bit more contained cable management)Despite these difficulties, the easy of use and software accessibility through both Steam and the VIVE store make this a real contender in the modern home VR space

they were just the most awesome high-tech thing you've ever experienced in your short life as a kid.

The ability to get up and walk around while in VR is one of the coolest experiences ever

The Vive is a fantastic experience, seated or standing, don't be afraid to pull the trigger here!

The only downside I should mention is that you need a rather powerful PC in order to get the best experience from the headset

Do yourself a favor and buy anything else to get a good reality experience, outside the virtual reality.

Amazing experience get it if you have the money, before buying make sure your computer can run VR.

This is an amazing piece of technology and the best experiences for VR.

It is only the best experience if you have the space needed to get the full experience and you have plenty of cash to blow - is the most expensive retail VR experience out there

My personal experience with this has not been great

Its just not a good experience past the "wow" factor of VR in general.5

All in all, for me, it has been an extraordinary experience, nonetheless for my family as well

For example, programming keyboard/joystick/controller options in a game where you need to see/use the keyboard/mouse can be a frustrating experience

A thoroughly enjoyable experience

First off, the Vive is a pretty cool experience

Pros•great experience•best vr product out thereCons•needs good

An amazing experience, the vive is something out of this world!

As long as you can run 45 fps the software double is to 90 so that the experience is more tolerable

While you'll still be waiting on a big library of AAA titles, Steam is full of amazing experiences, which make for great social/party situations if you mirror the display to a TV so people can watch

And really, it's a beyond-amazing experience

Has a lot of bugs to be worked out still, but the experience is well worth the trouble

The experience is breathtaking and for lack of better words

In a short summary, the initial experience is great

This provides the best experience out there by not only putting you in a world you can look around, but a world you can walk around!

Great vr experience great quality overall love them

The htc vive offers an incredible and unique experience

I am an avid computer game player and this is the most amazing experience I have ever had on a computer

I've been playing video games for 30 years now, and this is by far the best experience I have had with a new system

No joke, I can't put into words how awesome the experience is

The experience however is mind blowing

The Blu - another amazing experience of going underwater.2.

and I can still say this experience is incredible

The lighthouses for tracking and room VR make for great if not clumsy experiences

If you question this and other negative experiences that people have had with all types of htc devices then go online and try to find one phone number that is valid for htc in the USA; find one address that is valid in the

Easy setup, absolutely incredible experience and just works!!!

SteamVR has improved a ton in the last few months, nearly flawless experience when setup correctly

That experience left me skeptical about consumer VR to say the least

I feel like I have finally found an incredible experience.

Great VR experience

this is one of the best experiences i've ever had and truly propelled gaming for me to the next level

Both are in either beta or alpha, but they are super mature in their development, and presented great experiences

It totally blows that experience out of the water

So my experience with ordering wasn't great

However, my experience has been mind-blowing

The experience is absolutely amazing

It is not only a fantastic experience, but you just can't beat Steam either.

Amazing experience

The vive is fantastic, it really work as describe, the experience is of out of space, and you really get immerse in all fun games

So many great games and experiences.

The experience is nice, feels like you are there, inside the game, best part is when you watch a movie, it's like having your own cinema room

So, because of this horrendous experience, I cannot leave a favorable star rating

It's an unbelievable experience you have to experience.

Great new experience

This has created a lot of cool experiences that likely won’t see much light elsewhere, like Drunkn Bar Fight (also on Rift) and Crazy Fishing

Both have very similar PC requirements...have a good PC or you will not enjoy your VR experiences as much

Playing games this thing is one of the best experiences I've had with my clothes on

Many are demos or short cool experiences, some are arcade style games (a blast in VR!), and about 20 titles are full, polished games

Amazing experience

It is an utterly magical experience using it for the first time, and continues to be so with every new game I try

Vr is an incredible experience and if you have a strong pc and can handle vr(use the steam vr tester) and spending the money won't make you go hungry for a few months, go for it!it was worth the money for me

I can't recommend upgrading to do this because of the price, but if you have the means, then I can whole-heartedly recommend the experience

This has been an amazing experience and everyone that I have shown it off to has been blown away.

If you are picking this up just for seated experiences (Elite: Dangerous, Subnautica, Racing games/sims, American Truck Sim, etc.), that isn't really an issue, but the Vive really shines with it's room-scale experiences

Just my opinion, but I would NEVER consider the Rift, after having experienced the difference..

She had so much fun that she wanted to do the other two experiences as well.

Great experience

This was the most amazing experiences of my life

Easily my worst Amazon experience, maybe things are changing with them

It is only the best experience if you have the space needed to get the full experience and you have plenty of cash to blow - is the most expensive retail VR experience out there

Now my game time has been turned back into a super-premium experience where a few hours

In all honesty, it is just truly an amazing experience.

It is quite honestly an extraordinary experience and will show you that this is definitely the way gaming will be heading in the future

Fantastic I love it

I did not buy the Vive from Amazon, only because I took advantage of a Cyber Monday deal and bought a Syber C Elite system that included the Vive with it for two hundred off its normal price.