VIVEPORT Turns 4! Celebrate with The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

Reading Time: 3 minutesVIVEPORT turns four this week and we’re going all out on the birthday celebrations! For a limited time, new and existing annual Viveport Infinity subscribers can opt-in to receive a free copy of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners while all subscribers can now explore the most recent additions to the Infinity library: Polyarc’s Moss and L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files from Rockstar Games. Starting today through October 11th, annual Viveport Infinity subscribers in select countries can redeem their copy of The Walking Dead: Saints & […]

Celebrating the Emmy-Nominated Viveport Title, Awavena

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou find yourself deep in the jungles of the Amazon, surrounded by lush vegetation and the sounds of the rainforest. As you spot a butterfly fluttering by, your ears are connected to a woman’s soothing voice in a native dialect; you suddenly drift into a comfortable connection with the ecosystem around you. This is Awavena, […]

Coming soon to Viveport Infinity in September

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs September arrives, we begin to close out on the humidity of summer and welcome the crisp air of autumn. It also means we finally get to share the incredible VR adventures that are heading your way next month in Viveport Infinity. From enchanting galaxies to archeological mysteries and arcade classics, five new titles are […]

Venice Film Festival’s VR Selection to Release on Viveport

Reading Time: 12 minutesSince film festival attendees can’t experience “la dolce vita” in person this year, the 77th Venice International Film Festival’s VR selection will be held entirely virtual in 2020. HTC Vive is partnering with La Biennale di Venezia to bring Venice VR Expanded, the official Virtual Reality selection of the festival, to the Viveport platform. From September 2 […]

Surf the Web and Manage Crowds Now With VIVE Sync

Reading Time: 2 minutesConnecting remote teams will continue to be the focus of businesses and team leaders for the foreseeable future and many have turned to VR as a solution to their current reality. Since launching in open beta on April 30, there have been over 5,000 meetings held in VIVE Sync and daily use of the platform […]

SnapshotVR’s Viveport Open Tournament Starts Saturday

Reading Time: 2 minutesSnapshotVR brings tournament-level paintball to VR. Exclusively on Viveport and Viveport Infinity for a limited time, the early access title is an arena-style shooter built for competitive solo or team play. This Saturday, SnapshotVR will hold its first-ever tournament so pick your team, practice your SnapshotVR lingo, and hone your skills if you want to […]

Protecting Gorillas Through the Power of VR

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Ellen Fund Presents: Gorillas in VR is a beautifully ambient experience with spatial audio allowing people to spend a few intimate moments with wild critically-endangered mountain gorillas in the volcanic jungles of northern Rwanda. Produced by award-winning immersive studio Habitat XR, the experience was a collaboration between famed talk show host and comedienne, Ellen […]

VR Developers Share Their Biggest Challenges and How They’ve Overcome Them

Reading Time: 5 minutesKey Challenges and Solutions – HTC VIVE 2020 Developer Survey Takeaways  To be the best advocate for the VR developer community, we know we have to listen to the triumphs as well as the setbacks developers face. In part one of this series, we covered the key trends and opportunities available to VR developers. In […]

Coming soon to Viveport Infinity in August

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith so many hits added to our Infinity library in July, we still haven’t been able to play all of the new titles in our queue yet. From critically acclaimed hits like Paper Beast to Early Access exclusives like Snapshot VR, this past month has been nonstop gaming for Infinity members. But the summer fun […]

HTC Vive and ARVI VR Partner to Expand Global VR Arcade Presence

Reading Time: 2 minutesExclusive VR escape–room content to be deployed across hundreds of location-based entertainment (LBE) sites.  HTC VIVE®, the leader in premium virtual reality (VR) and arcade solutions, today announced a collaboration with ARVI VR to extend their presence to a greater number of location-based entertainment (LBE) VR sites across the globe. The first wave will open this year in China, India, […]

VR Developers Share Their Unique Market Insights

Reading Time: 4 minutesKey Opportunities and Trends – HTC VIVE 2020 Developer Survey Takeaways Each year we survey our VIVE developers to gain a better understanding of the community. From who they are to what motivates them, what projects they’re tackling and the challenges they face, listening is how we learn to be the best advocate and partner […]

VR For Impact: Accused #2 Walter Sisulu

Reading Time: 6 minutes[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries?list=PL1JC6N9u4ERhTB72N0hXAEXua0sEBCPU_&w=730&h=411] Below, the creative team from La Générale de Production talks about the making of this powerful experience… What was the inspiration for tackling this subject in such a way? Jeremy Pouilloux: There are no images of the trial. At the time, the trial was carefully recorded on Dictabelts, a now-obsolete audio recording format. […]

Coming Soon to Viveport Infinity: Snapshot VR and More

Reading Time: 3 minutesYour Viveport Infinity library is updated with new content each month ensuring there is always something new to play, watch, or explore. This month is no exception. July brings six new hits to the subscription service, giving you something to look forward to each week. Read our July guide below to find out what is […]

REAL™ Immersive System with HTC VIVE Wins Design Award

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s never a shortage of challenges facing the world and we want to be part of solutions. That’s why we are taking a moment today to congratulate our partners at Penumbra for winning the Core77 Design Award for Health & Wellness. As we shared in March, The REAL™ System is an immersive, wireless virtual reality […]

VIVE X Doubles Returns on XR Investments

Reading Time: 4 minutesVIVE X, HTC VIVE’s early-stage investment program, continues to aggressively lead investments in the virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) space, announcing today that it has nearly doubled the value of its investments over the last four years. Founded in 2016, VIVE X is the most active investor in the VR/AR market, with more than 100 […]

VIVE Sync Feature Updates: June 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMonths into working remotely and feeling the effects of “Zoom fatigue”, we are all trying to find new ways to connect with coworkers and partners. What is the best way to continue to foster workplace community, culture and collaboration remotely? At VIVE, we’ve been using our own internal tool, VIVE Sync, to reestablish our relationships […]

Case Study: CannonDesign boosts efficiency with VIVE and NVIDIA remote collaboration platform

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HTC VIVE and Qualcomm Technologies work together to help accelerate XR and 5G experiences

Reading Time: 3 minutesHere at HTC Vive, we have long partnered with Qualcomm Technologies to bring amazing immersive mobile experiences to consumers and businesses. Throughout our history of making smartphones at HTC to creating VR headsets like Focus Plus, we leverage the latest and greatest processing power from Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ mobile platform. Today we’re furthering our commitment through […]

VIVE Cosmos Update 1.0.12.4a – Release Notes

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThank you for your continued support of VIVE Cosmos. The software has been updated as of 6.2.2020. Below you’ll find detailed information on the topics addressed in 1.0.12.4a. Please update from your Vive console to ensure you have the latest version. [Runtime] Cosmos & Cosmos Elite Improved double image effect when hit heavy loading content. Updated the hidden […]

Coming Soon to Infinity: Down the Rabbit Hole, Tower Tag and More

Reading Time: 3 minutesHow are we only days away from June already? With summer just in sight and spring growing distant in our rearview windows, it’s that time again to take a look at what is coming next. This month, you can beat the heat and play inside with eight new additions to your Viveport Infinity library. From […]

Manufacturers Benefit From Simplified 3D Design Processes in VR Thanks to Dassault Systèmes and HTC VIVE

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the goal of fundamentally changing how design concepts go from the mind’s eye to reality, HTC VIVE Pro teamed up with Dassault Systèmes. That objective is becoming even more important within complex technology and engineering verticals—as agility, responsiveness, and speed to market continually shift. Over the last four decades Dassault Systèmes has led the world in the application of […]

War Remains Transports Audiences to the Hellish Landscape of the First World War

Reading Time: 3 minutesWar Remains, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and later opened for a limited run in Austin, Texas, is now available to experience at home, including on HTC VIVE. War Remains transports viewers to one of history’s bloodiest battlefields: The Western Front of the First World War. We interview Ethan Stearns of MWM […]