Building up the newly revealed ‘Vive Pre’ development kit, HTC has released a new video teasing the possibilities of virtual reality.

The video is similar in production to earlier videos released during the first reveal of the HTC Vive back in 2015, featuring real actors surrounded in CGI scenery, though none of it shows any real content in action.

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Some of the shots are likely nods to Vive content that we already know is in the works, like The Blu and Tilt Brush, but it’s unclear if others are generic sci-fi scenes or a glimpse of content to come.

At CES this week, HTC has taken the wraps off of the Vive Pre—the second Vive development kit—showing an improved design and passthrough camera feature. The company says the Vive Pre will be distributed to some 7,000 developers ahead of the headset’s consumer launch coming in April 2016.

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