HTC VIVE Teams Up With Mozilla and AWS to Bring Dedicated Virtual Reality Web Browser to Market

Reading Time: 3 minutesHTC VIVE™, the leader in room-scale Virtual Reality (VR), today announced a first of its kind collaboration with Mozilla’s Firefox, AWS’s Amazon Sumerian, and Fidelity Investments that will enable consumers to bring VR into their everyday life by providing an immersive web browsing experience in VR. Firefox Reality will become Vive’s native VR browser, providing […]

HTC VIVE Evolves Premium VR Portfolio With New Hardware, Unlimited Software Subscription and Content Partnerships

Reading Time: 5 minutesHTC VIVE™, the leader in room-scale Virtual Reality (VR), today announced new hardware, software, and content offerings that redefine how VR is experienced. With VIVE Pro Eye, a new headset with built-in eye tracking, the high-end VR experience from VIVE Pro just got even better. In addition, VIVEPORT, HTC’s global app store for VR content, […]

Writing the (Hyper)book on arcade action with Regenesis Arcade

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe VDA award winning action shooter Regenesis Arcade – currently on sale 50% off during the Viveport holiday sale – is an electric experience. Blending immersive, fast paced gun combat with skill customization options, Regenesis gives players plenty of ways to change up their tactics as they wage war against an army of malevolent machines […]

Closing the loop with the mind-bending experience A Fisherman’s Tale

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the topsy-turvy VR adventure A Fisherman’s Tale – coming to Viveport January 22nd – you’ll go on a mind-bending adventure that will challenge your perceptions on your journey to discover the truth behind the surreal M.C. Escher-like scenario you find yourself in. We sat down to speak with the development team to hear what […]

Huge yuletide savings during the Viveport Holiday Sale

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHuge savings on Viveport apps and games, as well as deep discounts on Viveport Subscription bundles! The holidays are upon us, which means it’s the perfect time to stock up on a plethora of immersive VR experiences on Viveport. To celebrate the season, starting today we’re rolling out a huge sale on a variety of […]

Race Around the World with Nellie Bly: The Virtual Reality Experience

Reading Time: 2 minutesNellie Bly, the pen name of Elizabeth Cochran, had an impressive resume, to say the least. Known for her pioneering journalism, Bly became famous for her support of women’s rights, undercover exposés and her world travels. Defying the status quo and challenging conventions, Bly became one of the most famous woman journalists of her time […]

Finding your way in the enchanting Arca’s Path

Reading Time: 4 minutesVR is a powerful step forward for technology to allow for immersive new experiences in bold new virtual worlds, reaching new audiences and breaking down barriers for interactivity. The team at Dream Reality Interactive believes that there are further opportunities to create engaging, artful experiences that can connect with players in increasingly intuitive and approachable […]

Discover the First VR Experience for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with the Launch of The Circadian Rhythm on Viveport

Reading Time: 2 minutesNobel Week has just begun and this year’s Nobel Laureates are headed to Stockholm and Oslo to take part in the festivities. The week is filled with press conferences and Nobel Lectures from the new Laureates with the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony taking place on December 10.  But if you haven’t scored a ticket to […]

All-ages arcade adventures with Attack of the Wompas

Reading Time: 7 minutesVirtual reality continues to reach larger audiences, with sets landing in more and more homes, and VR arcades continue to pop up worldwide. Offerings for younger players, however, are still few and far between. The team at Rocket Worldwide, feeling that VR is for the whole family, want to change that by creating the first in […]

Stepping into a VR dream in AWAKE

Reading Time: 11 minutesStart VR are attempting to push the narrative envelope with AWAKE, an ambitious cinematic mystery which takes you inside a man’s dreams – and that’s only the beginning. We spoke with Martin Taylor, Chief Creative Officer at Start VR and creator of AWAKE, about this not-to-be-missed VR experience. Interview by Nathan Ortega, Viveport Staff [youtube […]

Processing loss with the award-winning Vestige

Reading Time: 10 minutesLetting go of a loved one is one of the most challenging things a person will do. The development team at NSC Creative sought to create a raw, emotional VR experience that captured the torrent of feelings that goes along with the grieving process. We sat down with them to hear what went into this […]

How VR can help in the fight to prevent human trafficking

Reading Time: 11 minutesMuch has been said about the potential for virtual reality to be an ‘empathy machine’, to grant understanding of situations and emotions that might be hard to realize in other mediums. The non-profit Prevent Human Trafficking is using 360 videos and VR to help people understand the very real problem of human trafficking today. We […]

Third Annual Viveport Developer Awards Submissions Open Today

Reading Time: 3 minutesVIVEPORT today opened submissions for the third annual Viveport Developer Awards. The awards program is an open contest for VR developers who have been, or will be, published on Viveport Subscription. Winners in each category can walk away with up to $50,000 in cash and prizes to support their current and future development objectives. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA6iklcGvtg] […]

Become transfixed by the dreamlike world of Transpose

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe recently released Transpose takes you into a mesmerizing and surreal world where you’ll need to manipulate time and gravity to overcome various obstacles. We spoke to Josh Manricks at developer Secret Location to find out what inspired this stunning out-of-body experience. Interview by Nathan Ortega, Viveport [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jkNOgKMkQ?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&w=730&h=411] For those unfamiliar, tell us a bit […]

Snag The Best Deal Ever on VIVE Pro—This Weekend Only

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’ve been looking for a better time to buy a VIVE Pro, well, it doesn’t get any better than this—but you’ll have to act fast. For a very limited time, you can save $200 on the VIVE Pro Full Kit. The full kit includes the VIVE Pro headset, two Steam VR™ Base Stations 2.0, two next-generation […]

Update on Vive Wireless Adapter and Ryzen chipsets

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have seen and are actively looking into multiple reports of Ryzen incompatibility with Vive Wireless Adapter. Our current data shows this is occurring with a subset of Ryzen-based PCs. Our investigation will take time as we are working with multiple component manufacturers to identify the root cause. We will update the community as we […]

HTC VIVE Announces Fourth Batch of Companies Selected for Vive X Accelerator Program

Reading Time: 4 minutesVIVE X, HTC VIVE’s global AR/VR accelerator, today announced the next group of companies selected to join the prominent program. Eighteen new start-ups from across the world will join Vive X programs in the San Francisco, London, Taipei, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Tel Aviv offices. Vive X has proven to be one of the most consistent […]

The Viveport Subscription epic Black Friday pre-sale

Reading Time: 2 minutesBlack Friday is almost here, but Viveport Subscription members can get a truly epic deal right now. Whether you’re an existing subscriber or you start a free trial, from now until 11/19, you can pick up five of the best games in VR for just $1 each (or local equivalent). Choose between time-stopping genre-bending shooter […]

Puzzling it out in Trains VR

Reading Time: 5 minutesPolish development team The House of Fables have taken one thing (trains) and paired it with another thing (puzzles) to create Trains VR, a VR-puzzle-train-management-sim that we’re proud to host on Viveport. We flagged down Adam Robaszyński-Janiec to talk about Trains VR. Full steam ahead! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgu_WJx2ByA] Trains VR is pretty unique, being a puzzle game […]

Going Deeper with Virtual Virtual Reality

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the bizarrely funny and surreal experience Virtual Virtual Reality, on sale this weekend for Viveport users and Viveport Subscription members, players explore a series of dreamlike digital worlds in a future where society is dominated by advanced AI. Things seem serene and wholesome at first glance, but all is not as it seems outside […]

 VIVE Sync announced to mainstream enterprise VR collaboration

Reading Time: 3 minutesDeveloped By Internal 2 Bears Studio, VIVE Sync is to Pilot in December At a press event in San Francisco yesterday, HTC VIVE announced VIVE Sync, a virtual reality (VR) collaboration and meeting application built specifically for the enterprise. The easy to access and secure Vive Sync has been built for the entire Vive ecosystem, […]