We purchased the HTC Vive Pro Headset so that our expert reviewer could thoroughly test and review it. Read on for our full product review.

If you’re looking to invest in the best PC-powered, room-scale VR experience possible, you’ll want the HTC Vive Pro. It has excellent tracking, a high screen refresh rate, a bright lens display, and a comfortable headset that you can wear for hours on end, making for the best VR headset on the market. However, when HTC decided to add “Pro” to the headset’s name, they also added a prohibitively high price tag to the mix, making it difficult to recommend for the average consumer.

The Vive Pro is the grown-up sibling to the HTC Vive, improving upon the Vive by adding built-in headphones and a hard plastic tension strap. It also gets rid of the litany of cables the Vive required to connect to the link box, opting instead for a proprietary connector. The headset is fairly heavy, tipping the scales at 550g, but the adjustable tension strap prevents the headset from sliding forward and keeps the product feeling balanced.

It’ll take some wiggling to get the perfect fit, but the headset is built to withstand hours of wear and years of use. The cable to the Vive Pro is 16 feet long, giving you plenty of room to roam in a 6-foot x 6-foot space. The headset has dual front-facing cameras and communicates with infrared base stations to track your location and movement. Though the base stations are small, they’re built solidly, allowing you to tilt them to a wide range of angles and install them up to 15 feet apart.