joel-bretonJoel Breton is the Vice President VR Content at HTC, and I had a chance to catch up with him at the Casual Connect conference in July to talk about the different industry verticals that they’ve identified. These include commerce, games, healthcare, education, live video/events/sports, design/engineering/tools, media, military/simulation, theme parks, and social. Some of the biggest areas of adoption with the Vive have been in engineering and design companies where they’ve been able to essentially replace million-dollar CAVE systems with the Vive. And we also talk about how each of the existing video game genres have been able to be translated into VR to varying degrees of success, and whether or not he sees any new genres unique to VR emerge yet. It’s an interesting discussion about the overall VR ecosystem, and how HTC has started to break it up into these different VR business verticals.

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  • Daemon Hunt

    Without sounding like a troll, I must say that VivePort went from buggy to super buggy. I was forced to remove it completely from my system as it was seriously interfering with both my Vive (lag, glitching and general performance issues) and Windows 10 Anniversary Edition at large. In terms of the new store, it really is just confusing why HTC would create another store as opposed to Steam, I couldn’t see the value – except perhaps to HTC. I will not confidently install VivePort on my machine again until the community gives it the thumbs up.

    • user

      Countrys where steam isnt popular. costumers who dont use steam because they are not gamers.

    • J.C.

      You don’t see the value? Why do you think Origin and Uplay exist when Steam exists? Because the 30% they get off the top of every sale is HUGE. It’s entirely to benefit HTC, and I have no interest in ever using it, but they want to actually make money on the Vive long term, not just sell the hardware.

      • Daemon Hunt

        VivePort works well now and I’m happy enough, the bugs I experienced have gone. The diverse content is interesting, and gives us another way to get non-Steam experiences.