VR workouts for the mind and body!

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe New Year is always a time of renewal, and for many of us it’s a time to resolve to do better, whether that’s with our bodies or in our minds. Naturally, there are VR apps for that! From today until Wednesday, January 24th we’re offering some fantastic VR apps at 50% off that will […]

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 […]

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 what we have, […]

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 […]

Viveport holiday picks for 2017

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhether you’re experiencing VR for the first time or looking for new titles to check out, we’ve got some holiday picks for you – sourced from our very own Viveport staff. Think of these as personal picks from people who know best! [embedded content] Available now in Viveport Subscription Thomas’ pick, and here’s why: With […]

Front Defense: Heroes introduces V-Move, a new form of VR locomotion

Reading Time: 2 minutesReleased today and developed by Vive Studios’ first-party developer Fantahorn Studio, Front Defense: Heroes is a highly-polished, online multiplayer shooter set in the final days of WW2. Playing as either the Axis or the Allies, players can challenge their friends to a 5 on 5 game of Team Deathmatch or Mission Mode across 5 multiplayer […]

Smashing all the things with VRobot

Reading Time: 4 minutes[embedded content] Hello Oleg! To start off, tell us what your role is in making VRobot? As CEO of Luden.io, my role lies in protecting developers and fun gameplay from boring ideas. I spend my time programming as well as building communications with media and partners like Viveport. What’s the origin of VRobot – you […]

Test your astro-mechanic skills in Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith Star Wars™: The Last Jedi™ a handful of days away (in theaters December 15th!) we’re excited to present Star Wars™: Droid Repair Bay – Astro-Mechanic for the Resistance on Viveport. [embedded content] Created by Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB (who previously developed Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine) and powered by Nissan, this is the official virtual reality […]

Slice and dice in the Kingdom of Blades

Reading Time: 5 minutesReady to slice and dice in the Three Kingdoms? Kingdom of Blades is now available on Viveport, so we caught up with Chesstar Studios to talk about their samurai slicer. [embedded content] Tell us about Kingdom of Blades! Kingdom of Blades is a fast-paced VR slicer game based around a cartoon rendition of the famous Three […]

DreamWorks’ legendary VR experience – Voltron!

Reading Time: 5 minutesSci-fi action series DreamWorks’ Voltron: Legendary Defender is set to continue for many seasons to come, so it’s a great time to expand their universe with a VR experience. We spoke to Lead Designer Dan Kingdom about DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles.  [embedded content] Hello there! Please introduce yourself to our audience of Voltron and VR fans. […]

Developing for the Vive Tracker with the VRUnicorns

Reading Time: 6 minutesWith Vive Trackers and the Racket Sports Set becoming available soon, we chatted with the mystical developers at VRUnicorns, who are bringing compatibility with the new accessories to their hashtagged VR titles. Being “game jammers by heart” our questions were answered by Horatiu Roman (Chief Technical Unicorn), and Julie Heyde (#ChickenBitch) of VRUnicorns. [embedded content] […]

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 […]

Death by cardboard! Exploring Kartong in miniature

Reading Time: 7 minutesFrom The Incredible Shrinking Man in 1957 to Downsizing later in 2017, getting small has been a sci-fi staple for decades. In SVRVIVE Studios’ new VR experience, office supplies and bits of cardboard become weapons and environments in the small-sized city of Kartong. We spoke with Robert Johansson, Level Designer and Oliwer Svensson, Art Director and […]

Redesign your home’s interior virtually with TrueScale

Reading Time: 3 minutesNow available on Viveport, TrueScale uses room-scale VR to let you design your dream home. [embedded content] Ever re-arranged a room in your house, only to move everything back again later? All that sweat and effort, just to get back to where you started. Wouldn’t you like to do all that… virtually? More than that: […]

Returning to Stonehenge VR… to play in a sandbox?

Reading Time: 9 minutesAs an ancient monument, you cannot even approach Stonehenge in real life – but with Stonehenge VR you can get up close and personal. Now with the SANDBOX update, you can do things you probably never imagined with the ancient stones. We caught up with Christian Bretz of VoyagerVR to see how things had progressed […]

The tricks and treats behind creating horror VR

Reading Time: 8 minutesWith Halloween upon us, we asked VR developers about their tricks (and treats!) in creating horror experiences in VR. Fear is one of the most primal emotions you can experience, and evoking it is why we watch horror movies, read horror books and more. With virtual reality and specifically room-scale experiences, horror can be more […]

Enter the Manor in Affected

Reading Time: < 1 minute[embedded content] Available until November 3rd at 25% off! From Fallen Planet Studios, AFFECTED: The Manor is a deeply immersive VR experience that places you inside a house of horror – now remastered for HTC Vive. With two routes to follow and four alternate endings, AFFECTED is an experience that you can revisit multiple times. […]

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 […]

Adventure through the world’s most diverse ecosystem in Amazon Odyssey

Reading Time: 2 minutesExperience the wonder and scale of the Amazon with VR Spanning twice the size of India, the Amazon River Basin is the single largest tropical rainforest in the world. Ten percent of the world’s known species call this lush ecosystem home, resulting in a diverse community of flora and fauna unlike any other. Now you […]