Vive Cosmos: Continuing to Update

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe built VIVE Cosmos to adapt to the needs of VR customers with ease, comfort, and performance. It’s our most versatile headset yet—with inside-out tracking, unlimited content in the box, swappable faceplate mods for more options in the future, and an entirely new design. We’re proud to have developed a VR kit that is built […]

VIVE Pro Eye Simplifies Research Applications Involving Visual Attention

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Peter Schlueer, President and Founder of WorldViz. With VIVE Pro Eye scientists have easy access to research quality VR eye-tracking. WorldViz Vizard VR software makes this data available with as much low-level control exposed as possible. Believe it or not, our VR technology has fueled scientific research for over two decades, and about every five years a […]

Vive Cosmos and Vive Wireless Adapter

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe VIVE family of virtual reality products proudly offers the only native support of wireless for PC VR and we’re excited to extend that distinction to the new Vive Cosmos. We’re fine-tuning performance of the Vive Wireless Adapter with Cosmos and are very close to releasing official support. We expect to deliver adapter compatibility with […]

Announcing VDA3 Nominees

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s that time of year again! We’re excited to share the nominees for the third annual Viveport Developer Awards. In total, there are 8 nominees across 4 categories for PC titles and 3 winners for Mobile titles. This year, we wanted to recognize the developers who are delivering exceptional experiences to our Viveport Subscribers and […]

VR Weekly: HTC Vive Pro im Fokus und Highlights von der GDC 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutesChris und Patrick waren in Berlin und konnten die HTC Vive Pro in der VR Lounge ausprobieren. Ein umfangreiches Hands-on hatten wir bereits veröffentlicht, nun folgt die Diskussion im Video. Dabei scheiden sich beim Tragekomfort die Geister. Alles eine Frage der Kopfgröße? Außerdem zeigen wir im Video die spannendsten Neuigkeiten frisch von der Game Developers […]

VIVE AT GDC 2018: VIVE FOCUS Coming To International Markets Later This Year; VDA Winners Announced

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday at GDC 2018, HTC Vive announced that we are bringing Vive Focus to the global markets later this year.  Vive Focus is the first 6DOF stand-alone VR headset to be commercially available.  We also are making Vive Focus developer kits available to registered developers in most countries through our developer portal, starting today.    […]

Watch the HTC VIVE and VIVEPORT Keynotes from Mobile World Congress 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast week at Mobile World Congress 2018, HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang gave a keynote sharing her vision for HTC Vive and the VR industry. Watch the speech below to hear her thoughts on the on the convergence of major technologies like VR, AR, 5G and AI. [embedded content] Also at Mobile World Congress, Rikard Steiber, […]

Step Inside the Unabomber Investigation with HTC Vive and Newseum

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a guest blog post by Lukasz Biernacki, Communications Associate at Immersion. If you’re one of the many that spent the Christmas break binging on Netflix then you may be familiar with Manhunt: Unabomber, the eight-part docudrama outlining the FBI investigation that led to the arrest of Ted Kaczynski. For those of you not […]

HTC VIVE Raises The Bar For Premium VR With New VIVE PRO Upgrade And Wireless VIVE Adaptor

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Hardware Raises the Bar for High-End VR Market, While All-New Viveport VR and Vive Video Dramatically Improves the way You Browse, Discover and Acquire VR Content. Today in Las Vegas, HTC VIVE™, the leader in room-scale Virtual Reality (VR) announced new hardware upgrades that deliver premium VR experiences to consumers and enterprises with the […]

Zayden’s Wish: Making the Impossible Mission Possible – in VR

Reading Time: 4 minutes**This is a guest post from the team at Trick3D [embedded content] The tarmac at Dobbins Air Force Base is clear – no jet engine roars – it’s calm enough to hear the American flag flapping in the breeze. And yet, the air’s electric with excitement. More than 50 airmen are aligned in formation. They […]

The Ochre Atelier Comes To Viveport

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe next stage of Vive’s partnership with Tate comes to life as Modigliani VR experience ‘The Ochre Atelier’ is now available to download at home In 1919 Amedeo Modigliani returned to Paris from the south of France. The war was over; his health had improved. His art dealer, Léopold Zborowski found a studio and living […]

Operation Apex and the Motivations Behind It

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith the launch of Operation Apex today on the HTC VIVE, we asked the CEO of Curiscope, Ed Barton, to give us some in depth insight into the virtual experience surrounding one of the most expansive, diverse places on the planet: our ocean. [embedded content] It’s hard to imagine a world without plastics. For most […]

Winners of “HP Mars Home Planet” Conceptual Design Phase Announced

Reading Time: 4 minutesLife on Mars is one step closer to ‘virtual’ reality as nine winners have been announced at Autodesk University Las Vegas 2017, for the first phase of HP Mars Home Planet – a global project pairing co-creation on the Launch Forth platform with virtual reality (VR) to simulate a utopian civilization of one million people on Mars. From buildings, vehicles, […]

VIVE Tracker Bundles Up In Time For The Holidays

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s been a great year for Vive Tracker and we’re consistently impressed by the way the developer community has integrated Tracker into their experiences, prototypes and arcades. From MarioKart VR, to full body tracking, to the first VR keyboard, Vive Tracker enables new types of VR projects quickly and affordably. But that’s just for developers […]

A Cornucopia of VIVE Black Friday Deals 

Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore the year’s most delicious holiday takes place, we want to share our exciting Black Friday deals across VIVE and VIVEPORT. Customers who purchase a Vive between Friday, November 24th at 12:00am ET through Monday, November 27th at 11:59pm PT will receive a Deluxe Audio Strap with the purchase of their Vive in addition to the current Fallout 4 VR bundle. For $599 each customer will get […]

Vive Announces Vive Wave Open Platform and Vive Focus, Its Standalone VR device For China

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, at our Vive Developers Conference (VDC) in Beijing, we announced the VIVE WAVE VR Open Platform.  With it, we are taking another huge step in driving the most vibrant ecosystem for VR forward. Vive Wave will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and device optimization for third-party partners. So far, twelve […]

Volkswagen Launch The T-Roc Virtual Reality Experience

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate the world premiere of the T-Roc, Volkswagen prepared something special: A virtual reality exhibition right in the lobby of the Volkswagen Brand Tower. The historic brand tower is the administrative center of the Volkswagen group, and stands on the site of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. This VR exhibit is now freely […]

HTC VIVE Announces VIVE Arts Program

Reading Time: 4 minutesToday HTC VIVE announced VIVE Arts, a new multi-million dollar global VR program set to change the way the world creates and engages with the arts. Vive recognizes VR’s potential to share and engage with the world’s most valuable treasures in a new and exciting way, and the company’s latest investment will support the content, […]

How Can We Support A Million Lives On Mars?

Reading Time: 3 minutesHP Mars Home Planet challenges engineers, architects, designers, artists, and students to design an urban area for a million people on the red planet. Is there life on Mars? Imagine a future when one million people call the red planet home. Together with NVIDIA, HTC VIVE and other partners, HP has launched HP Mars Home […]

Over 100 Interactive Songs Now Available For Jam Studio VR

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday – October 26, 2017 – Jam Studio VR, the interactive music app that allows anyone to unleash their inner musician and play music or DJ, regardless of their musical experience or abilities, has now released over 100 interactive songs for download on Steam and Viveport.    In addition to the already-included 20 multi-genre interactive […]

Welcome to Driftwood

Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to Driftwood!    Today Vive’s Creative Labs team, creators of the popular Vive Video, is releasing a new SteamVR Home experience that brings your own personal Vive outpost to the VR world.  Based on the real world beauty of the Pacific Northwest, Driftwood transports you to an interactive and social world where you can explore a beautifully detailed beach environment, spot indigenous flora and […]