Getting your green thumb with the serene art experience Fujii

Reading Time: 4 minutesIntro paragraph Interview by Nathan Allen Ortega, Viveport Staff [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5InNQr3rFgo?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=730&h=411] Tell us a bit about yourself and the team at Funktronic Labs Funktronic Labs is a small studio based in Pasadena, California. We focus on forming playful connections between humans and technology. What were some of your main influences on the design concepts and […]

VIVEPORT Video gets upgraded with new content and features

Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you tried VIVEPORT Video yet? The native video player has become the number one downloaded free title on Viveport, surpassing the 2nd most downloaded free title by over 2x! Why are users so enamored with the Viveport Video app? To start, there are now over 700 videos available to watch on the service! Whether […]

VIVEPORT Video gets upgraded with new content and features

Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you tried VIVEPORT Video yet? The native video player has become the number one downloaded free title on Viveport, surpassing the 2nd most downloaded free title by over 2x! Why are users so enamored with the Viveport Video app? To start, there are now over 700 videos available to watch on the service! Whether […]

Chatty Robots & Ninja Action in the Top VIVEPORT INFINITY Titles for August

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCompatible with HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift and Window Mixed Reality Time again for the Viveport Infinity top titles spotlight! Two new, very different experiences have made their way to the world’s first unlimited VR subscription service in August. In the latest narrative experience from the award-winning Baobab Studios, you crash-land on an alien world along […]

Become a virtual shinobi in the fast paced action experience Ninja Legends

Reading Time: 8 minutesNinjas are awesome. Silently moving through the shadows, they struck with precision and skill to take out their targets. From over-the-top action films, to Saturday morning cartoon heroes in the form of mutant turtles, we’ve always had a fascination with these stealthy assassins. The creative team behind recent Viveport Infinity release Ninja Legends spoke to […]

New In VIVEPORT Infinity – July 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesVIVEPORT Infinity is your home base to start exploring hundreds of virtual worlds and experiences. An unlimited subscription service with over 600 apps and games to download, Viveport Infinity is your ticket to discovering the best that VR has to offer. But the best news is that your Infinity membership increases in value every month! […]

Case Study: VIVE Solves VR For Theme Parks With Busch Gardens Project

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTheme parks are always looking for ways to increase attendance. In theory, VR is the perfect draw. It’s new. It provides a one-of-a-kind attraction. It even breathes life into old rides. Still, enormous as the potential is, VR theme park attractions have long been plagued by fundamental challenges. Long wait times. Questionable sanitary practices. Underwhelming […]

Discovery’s Shark Week Comes to Viveport

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe drama of Shark Week is coming to a headset near you as Discovery releases Shark Week VR content on Viveport. Running from July 28 through August 4, Shark Week is one of the most anticipated and iconic television events of the summer. Now, you can get up close and personal to these thrilling creatures […]

Take a virtual reality tour of the Raspberry Pi Store

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome months back, we received an email from Rob Chinery, explaining that he’d created a virtual reality (VR) tour of the Raspberry Pi Store, Cambridge. When I heard about the new Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge, I was immediately impressed by the design and aesthetic of the store. I thought it would be a great […]

Bringing the house down with the hilarious party experience Takelings House Party

Reading Time: 9 minutesCreating multiplayer experiences that are satisfying and fun for everyone involved is no easy task – especially with the asymmetrical nature of VR. The creative team over at DimnHouse – makers of the new Viveport release Takelings House Party – sought to make an experience that plays into not only the strengths of VR, but […]

Get obsessed with art in Lucid Realities Studio’s Viveport Developer Story

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the first of our latest series of Viveport Developer Stories, we took a trip over to Paris, France to visit with the team at Lucid Realities Studio. Winner of the third annual VDA award in the Arts & Culture category with the experience Claude Monet – The Water Lily obsession, they talked to us […]

VIVE Studios’ latest title, ‘T. Rex: Skeleton Crew’, launches on VIVEPORT Infinity

Reading Time: 3 minutesVIVE continues its partnership with the American Museum of Natural History as T. Rex: Skeleton Crew is now available to experience at home   VIVE Studios, HTC VIVE’s content development and publishing division, and VIVE Arts, today announced that its latest interactive education title, T. Rex: Skeleton Crew, is now available to experience on Viveport. […]

Get back to the moon and beyond on Apollo 11’s anniversary

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Nathan Ortega, Viveport Staff 50 years ago today, the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed the first two people onto the surface of the moon. What better way to reflect on such a monumental moment in human achievement than by checking out some of the out of this world Viveport Infinity titles that let you […]

Case Study: Ovation Expands Features & Analytics With VIVE Pro Eye

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLearn how VIVE Pro Eye’s precision eye tracking enhanced a powerful public speaking simulator for students, professional speakers, and enterprises. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tarFEEiLiGM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=730&h=411] Public speaking skills are key to professional development, but practice is intimidating and infrequent. Ovation helps users overcome their speech obstacles with dynamic virtual environments and real-time guidance with unlimited opportunities for practice. […]

Track your VR fitness level with the latest update to Synth Riders

Reading Time: 2 minutesTime to turn your sessions of sweating it out to synth grooves into official workouts! The neon-drenched world of Synth Riders now supports YUR.FIT calorie tracking, so you can chart exactly how intense of a workout you are getting with each play session. Just another way to get your pulse raised and your blood pumping […]

Prepare to have your mind bent with the Viveport Video science series Mindbenders

Reading Time: 8 minutesMindbenders is an all-new immersive VR 360 video series on Viveport Video, allowing viewers to get up close and personal with the principles of science. We sat down to chat with creators Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, and Grant Imahara to hear what inspired them to create this immersive new way to learn about the world […]

Offer Extended! Oculus Rift Owners Get 2 Months Free VIVEPORT Infinity

Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to popular demand, we’ve extended the promotion window of two free months of VIVEPORT Infinity for Oculus Rift and Oculus Rift S owners to August 4. If you haven’t already jumped on this deal, now is the time to redeem for unlimited access to hundreds of top VR titles in the subscription service, in […]

BMW & ZeroLight Optimize Virtual Customer Journey With VIVE Pro Eye

Reading Time: 3 minutesDiscover how the German car giant leveraged precision eye tracking to reduce rendering workloads and overhead and capture better business intelligence. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piflsDb02gc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=730&h=411] “Now with improved visual quality and detailed customer behavior insights, the BMW M Virtual Experience is a powerful example of automotive marketing’s technologically advanced future. We are proud to see the impact […]

VIVE & Motion Workshop Bring Full-Body Interaction To VR

Reading Time: 2 minutesFast, high-quality mocap animation at 400 fps. Brought to you by VIVE Tracker & Shadow® Motion Capture System. Erik Bakke is the co-founder of Motion Workshop, a Seattle-based business that focuses on motion sensor technology and motion capture. We invited him to sit down and discuss his signature Shadow Motion Capture System and what he […]

VIVE Pro Eye Simplifies Input & Navigation for MLB Home Run Derby VR

Reading Time: 3 minutesPrecision eye tracking eliminates the need for handheld controllers in VR, creating an incredible access point for first-time users. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk70dm3nCfc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=730&h=411] Sports are all about moments. No one knows that better than Major League Baseball (MLB). The way we, the fans, absorb those moments are changing all the time. We’ve gone from peering over fences, […]

“Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time” and HTC VIVE at London Comic Con

Reading Time: 2 minutesDoctor Who fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the franchises’ next foray into VR with the launch of Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time. Coming to all major headsets this fall, the cinematic feature-length experience from PlayStack and Maze Theory will transport fans into a globally-beloved world of aliens, mystery and wonder, letting them […]

“Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time” and HTC VIVE at London Comic Con

Reading Time: 2 minutesDoctor Who fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the franchises’ next foray into VR with the launch of Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time. Coming to all major headsets this fall, the cinematic feature-length experience from PlayStack and Maze Theory will transport fans into a globally-beloved world of aliens, mystery and wonder, letting them […]