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Vive Partners at SXSW 2018
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs South by Southwest starts ramping up to celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries, we wanted to highlight our partners who will be onsite with some awesome VR activations. If you’re heading to SXSW and looking to try out some great content on Vive, make sure to check…
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Tonight The Distracted Globe from Ready Player One Comes To Life On TheWaveVR
Reading Time: 2 minutesTonight from 9:00pm CST, TheWaveVR will bring The Distracted Globe from Ready Player One to life, with a DJ set from the film’s Tye Sheridan, who will be mixing live in VR from Brazos Hall in Austin, Texas. Fans will be able to enter The Distracted Globe zero-gravity dance club & take…
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The World Needs More Talented Women In Tech
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday, on International Women’s Day, HTC VIVE is supporting the 5th Women In Tech (WIT) conference in Stockholm with 1,300 WIT participants and several thousand on the waiting list. There is clearly an appetite for this as the +1,000 ticket sold out in 100 seconds! The mission of WIT is to inspire…
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Blasting back to old-school arcades, with Operation Warcade
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor a period in the 1980s mounted guns on arcade cabinets were hugely popular, with the feel of those guns and the rapid-fire feedback giving players a real sense of immersion through the machine’s CRT monitor. Today, Ivanovich Games is bringing back the arcade experience inside your HTC Vive – literally. We…
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Marina Abramović and Anish Kapoor to Present Two Virtual Reality Artworks at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Reading Time: 5 minutesHTC VIVE, Art Basel’s Official Virtual Reality Partner, is delighted to announce the first public presentation of two virtual reality artworks by Marina Abramović and Anish Kapoor from 29-31 March 2018 at Art Basel in Hong Kong. Rising by Marina Abramović and Into Yourself, Fall by Anish Kapoor are produced in collaboration…
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Announcing VDA2 Nominees
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re pleased to announce the nominees for the second annual Viveport Developer Awards! These 10 nominations represent some of the best and most innovative VR experiences. With a record number of entries from developers, it was incredibly difficult to shorten the list. In no particular order, here’s the 10 nominees, 2…
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Enter the Stormlight Archive in VR, with Way of Kings
Reading Time: 5 minutesPart of Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy epic The Stormlight Archive has been translated from the printed page to VR with this VR experience from Arcturus. We spoke with Ewan Johnson, Chief Creative Officer at Arcturus, about re-creating the world of Roshar. [embedded content] Can you give us a brief overview of the world of The…
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Viveport Subscription Member Deals are here!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre you a Viveport Subscription member? You can save this weekend on Prison Boss VR plus The Gallery Parts 1 and 2! With over 375 titles now available in Viveport Subscription, the monthly price is increasing on March 22nd. (If you’re an existing subscriber, or subscribe before March 22nd, you’ll continue to…
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Konrad the Kitten is ready for all your love in VR
Reading Time: 6 minutesWith cute-sim Konrad the Kitten launching officially this week, we caught up with Konrad Kunze, Lead Game Designer at FusionPlay, to ask him all about the love, care and attention needed to own a virtual feline. [embedded content] Hello! Please introduce yourself to everyone. Hi, I am Konrad Kunze, the Lead Game…
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Viveport Subscription update: get the best rate for 2018
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you haven’t tried Viveport Subscription yet, there’s never been a better time! Over 375 VR titles are waiting for you, with more being added every week. In less than a year, Viveport Subscription has grown enormously, starting with a little over 50 titles available to over 375 now. As a member…
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Knockout League is the First Vive Studios Title to Come to All Three Major VR Platforms
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Joel Breton, GM of Vive Studios Today, the full release of Knockout League – Vive Studios and Grab Games’ arcade-style boxing game built from the ground up for VR – is launching on Vive, Oculus and PlayStation VR. Now the greater VR community can step into the ring and face off…
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Yee-haw! Saddle up with Hopalong: The Badlands
Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you’ve ever played at being a cowboy or pretended a broom was a horse (Wait, just us?) then you’ll be right at home in the wild, weird west of Hopalong: The Badlands. With Hopalong now available as part of Viveport Subscription, we talked to (appropriately enough) Texas-based developers From the Future…
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OrthoVR rebuilds lives in virtual reality
Reading Time: 3 minutesMillions of people around the world suffer amputation and disability due to war, accident, and congenital conditions. Yet relatively few of them have access to mobility aids that would allow them to walk, a freedom most people take for granted. Without prosthetic limbs, it can be incredibly difficult to participate in education,…
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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…
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Enter your VR app for the second Viveport Developer Awards
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast year, in the inaugural VDAs, we awarded prizes to apps across the spectrum of what’s possible in VR – from recreating history with Apollo 11 VR, to witnessing a piece of art in motion with Firebird – La Péri. With another year of experience and experimentation, we’re hoping to see the…
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HTC VIVE and World Economic Forum Partner For The Future Of The “VR/AR For Impact” Initiative
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, HTC VIVE announced a partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to drive the VR/AR for Impact initiative forward, and to showcase its latest content at the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Impact Hub at the WEF 2018 in Davos. Originally launched by HTC at WEF in 2017, VR/AR For Impact is…
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Vive Partners With the Best in VR at CES 2018
Reading Time: 8 minutesYesterday at CES, Vive raised the bar for premium VR with the new Vive Pro upgrade and Wireless Vive adaptor while dramatically improving the way we discover and consume VR content with Viveport VR and Vive Video. Today, we’re proud to highlight the exceptional partners sharing our booth and those showing Vive…
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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…
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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…
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Savings galore in our Viveport Holiday Sale
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Tis the season to be in VR, as they say, and we’ve got plenty of great incentives to get you there. Whether you’ll be unwrapping a Vive on the 25th or have already taken your first step into a virtual world, we have dozens of VR titles for sale this holiday. Here’s…
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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…
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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…
