HTC Vive Controller (2018)

when the HTC vive was first announced I was finally sold on virtual reality's potential but it wasn't the headset that convinced me it was the one-to-one tracked controllers that were unparalleled at the time they were clunky they featured gigantic touch pads instead of joysticks and still to this day cost a hundred and thirty dollars to replace but they were the only thing we had and they were amazing here we are four years later and many vive owners are left wondering whether it's finally time to give their controllers an update let's take a look welcome to showdown the series where we pit two different tech products up against each other and try to pick a winner if we haven't met I'm Erin and this is top spec your one-stop shop for tech content today we're going to be comparing and contrasting the HTC vive ones to Valve's index or knuckles controllers whatever you'd like to call them