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News HTC drops Vive bundle price to £599

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by bit-tech, 22 Aug 2017.

  1. bit-tech

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  2. Hustler

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    ..yeah, can we have a price that actually reflects the £/$ exchange rate please.

    ..just like what happened when the pound dropped below $1.20, you were pretty damn quick to raise prices then.

    £1 = $1 is in no way justified any longer.

    ..at a minimum, prices should be 5% lower and closer to 10%, even taking into account VAT.
     
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    $599 is £466.38 at current interbank exchange rates. Plus VAT, that's £559.66 - and VAT ain't the only expense for a foreign company selling into the UK, 'cos there's import tax too.

    If it falls under "Section XVI: Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof, sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles - 85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles - 21 Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner - Other" (just my quick guess) that would be 10.4%, bringing the price to £617.86.

    In other words, you're actually getting an £18.86 discount over the US pricing at the moment.
     
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    Is there any chance of BT getting hold of the HP Windows VR headset for a review? Was close to pulling the trigger on the oculus at its current price but very interested to see how the Windows headset performs and it's compatibility with existing titles.
     
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    That's an easy one: there isn't any. Windows Holographic HMDs work with neither SteamVR or OVR titles.

    Whether they will ever work is up for debate. Microsoft are not a member of the OpenXR group, and Windows Holographic is UWP-only, so any cross-compatibility would need a UWP-based interface to act as an intermediary to do protocol translation. Oculus already have a UWP interface for OVR (used in Minecraft Windows 10 Edition) but don't seem interested in bothering with translation layers for other HMDs until OpenXR is completed, and Valve throw a bit of a wobbler* whenever the Windows Store is mentioned to an official compatibility layer from them is unlikely.

    * And by "throw a wobbler", I mean "half-assedly develop then mostly abandon an OS once their sky-is-falling proclamations of the end of Win32 fail to occur, and effectively nobody picks up their OS to use"
     
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