Why it matters to you
Here are the best apps for the HTC Vive VR system, and if you act fast you can save a bundle on the four best selections.
HTC created its Viveport app store as an easy way for users of its Vive virtual reality (VR) system to locate, purchase, and download new VR apps. Viveport also serves as a place for developers to showcase their apps, allowing them to feature their work somewhere other than the crowded Steam store.
The company also kicked off another effort to spur developers to make apps for the HTC Vive, specifically the Viveport Developer Awards (VDA), which honor — and financially reward — the best apps. That contest has now concluded, and HTC announced the winners on its Vive blog.
More: Viveport Development Awards offer up $500K prize pool for VR devs
The first annual VDA offered up $500,000 in award money to the best apps in four categories. First prize was $50,000, second prize was $30,000, third prize was $15,000, and a special community’s choice winner netted $10,000. Each winning entry along with two runners-up also received an HTC Vive system.
Here are the winners:
First place
Second place
Third place
Runners up
Explore
Apollo 11 VR
Realities
The Body VR
A Chair in a Room: Greenwater, Mars Odyssey
Create
Fantastic Contraption
Soundstage
Paintlab
Kodon, Arcade Artist
Connect
Cloudlands: VR Minigolf
Altspace VR
Engage
World of Diving, SurrealVR
Experience
Allumette
Pearl
Firebird – La Péri
TheBlu, The Night Café: A VR Tribute to Van Gogh
Community
A Chair in a Room: Greenwater
Three of the winners, Penrose Studios, Futuretown, and Northway Games, will join an on-stage discussion panel on March 3, 2017 at the upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. If you’re an HTC Vive user, then head over to Viveport to pick up the first-place apps at a 40-percent discount through March 2, 2017.