HTC Vive’s birthday brings gifts for customers

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HTC Vives birthday brings gifts for customers

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• HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker is
  celebrating the one year anniversary of its
  virtual reality device, the HTC Vive. To make
  this a more memorable day for customers, HTC has
  planned to launch a new monthly subscription
  service for virtual reality content like video
  games and short interactive films.

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• The new HTCs online Viveport store will feature
  a monthly subscription service, where viewers can
  download up to five VR titles for just 7 a
  month. The following month, the customers can
  switch the titles with other ones if they want
  to. The companys ideology behind the service is
  that customers should get to try an app before
  they decide to buy. This comes as a great
  advantage to virtual reality users as one of the
  biggest drawbacks with virtual reality games is
  that until you play them, its hard to know what
  they are like. 2D screenshots and trailers barely
  do traditional games justice, let alone fully
  realized virtual worlds.

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• Launching today, a year to the day after the
  original release of the HTC Vive virtual reality
  headset, the Viveport Subscription will give VR
  gamers access to content that they may not have
  otherwise paid for. For developers, the
  subscription model represents an additional
  revenue channel and a way to reach broader
  audiences. Viveport Subscription is launching
  with more than 50 titles available including VR
  apps like TheBlu, Richies Plank Experience,
  Everest VR, Fantastic Contraption, Mars Odyssey
  and more.
• Talking about the introduction of this new
  Netflix-like subscription service, Rikard
  Steiber, President of Viveport at HTC Vive said,
  Introducing a subscription model to VR is a
  natural evolution of where this market is going,
  and as film, music and TV have proven its
  becoming the preferred way customers want to
  explore and experience entertainment content.

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• Every HTC Vive owner will be given a free month
  trial of the subscription service, as well as a
  free copy of Arcade Saga. However, from then on,
  each month will cost users 7 to remain part of
  the subscription service. A report suggests that
  HTC believes as many as half of all Vive owners
  will join up, which with an estimated 500,000
  headset owners out in the wild, would represent a
  nice little revenue stream for HTC.
• The Vive anniversary has definitely turned out to
  be a gala time for customers but till when will
  these freebies last without any additional terms
  and conditions is the point to ponder on. So,
  stay tuned to get more updates on such exciting
  VR news because we are where VR is!