An interview with Polish site TVN24Bis.pl may have just revealed the release date for the HTC Vive in three territories, US, UK and Germany. In an interview with the site, HTC with Bartosz Zik, Product Commercialisation Manager at HTC, it’s mentioned that HTC expect to “Premiere” the SteamVR headset on December 8th.

Update: We reached out to HTC and their response states “I would not consider this information confirmed or from HTC official channels.”

Update 2: The same HTC employee in another interview can be seen below – again stating the 8th of December for an HTC launch. Make of this what you will.

The HTC Vive headset was announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in March this year, before going to dominate at the adjacent GDC conference a few days later. It’s since become an eagerly awaited entry to the new wave of consumer VR hardware, due for release in the next 6 months.

This new interview suggests that either an announcement of a release date or that HTC Vive units may be available to buy on December 8th this year in the US, UK and Germany. This limited availability does chime with an earlier confirmation from HTC that initial shipments of the Lighthouse tracked virtual reality system may initially be limited in scope and number, with a full push coming early in 2016.

We’re working to try and corroborate this information right now and will report back with out findings as soon as we learn anything.

Thanks to Twitter user t_dowgielewiczs for the heads up.

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Paul James
Based in the UK, Paul has been immersed in interactive entertainment for the best part of 27 years and has followed advances in gaming with a passionate fervour. His obsession with graphical fidelity over the years has had him branded a ‘graphics whore’ (which he views as the highest compliment) more than once and he holds a particular candle for the dream of the ultimate immersive gaming experience. Having followed and been disappointed by the original VR explosion of the 90s, he then founded RiftVR.com to follow the new and exciting prospect of the rebirth of VR in products like the Oculus Rift. Paul joined forces with Ben to help build the new Road to VR in preparation for what he sees as VR’s coming of age over the next few years.
  • SuperDre

    They still haven’t even showed the final consumer version, so I think that 8 dec will rather be an announcement for a release date and showing of the consumer version, than it would actually be released.. If it is to be released on the 8th of december then I would have already assumed there would have been photo’s leaked of the production version, it’s only one month..

  • neveser

    It would be nice to have some sort of announcement from HTC now that the phone event is out of the way.

  • Michael

    After reading articles and watching interviews on the internet I was under the impression that HTC / Valve was going to be releasing information regarding final specs of the consumer version, price, release date and launch titles sometime in October with limited availability for a lucky few before the end of the year.

    It’s nearly the end of October, has this changed now?