Viveport

Viveport
Information
Devices	Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality, Valve Index, Quest + Link, Pico Neo, Pico G2, HTC Vive Focus Plus, HTC Vive Flow, HTC Vive XR Elite, HTC Vive Focus Vision
Operating Systems	Windows, Android
Accessible	Mobile VR, PC VR, Standalone VR
Developer	HTC
Apps	>2,000
Website	https://www.viveport.com/

Viveport (styled VIVEPORT) is the VR game and app store for HTC. It sells and distributes games, apps and videos for PC-based headsets such as the HTC Vive and for HTC's standalone headsets, and its website describes the service as available for Windows and Android. HTC said in 2019 that the store operated in more than 60 countries. The store first opened in China in 2016, and its global launch followed on September 30, 2016.

Users can purchase apps outright or subscribe at a monthly or annual cost. The subscription service is called Viveport Infinity and allows unlimited play of the content in its catalog while the subscription is active. Viveport also works with headsets from other makers: Infinity supports Meta Quest headsets through Link, the Oculus Rift, the Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. HTC still lists the "VIVEPORT platform and app store" as part of its VIVE business in September 2026.

Reviewed 27 September 2026. Checked every dated fact, price, revenue share, device list and quote against the cited HTC press releases, Viveport site and help pages, TechCrunch, GeekWire, UploadVR and Road to VR articles. About review dates.

History

Launch (2016)

Covering HTC's Viveport announcement at the VRLA event in August 2016, TechCrunch reported that the store targeted non-gaming categories such as education, design, art, social, video, music, sports, health, fashion, travel, news, shopping and creativity tools, and that it used a standard 70/30 revenue split with developers. It supported paid downloads, in-app purchases and subscriptions. HTC positioned the store as a home for this kind of content while Steam remained focused on "hardcore gaming content", and Rikard Steiber, an HTC senior vice president, recommended that developers publish their content "everywhere".

According to GeekWire, Viveport first opened in China in April 2016. HTC announced its global launch on September 30, 2016, after months of beta testing, with availability in more than 30 countries. For the first 48 hours, HTC sold selected titles for US$1 each; the launch lineup included an update to Everest VR, a new edition of theBlu and Google Spotlight Stories' Pearl. Steiber, then president of Viveport, told UploadVR that there were "absolutely no contracts" keeping developers exclusive to the store.

Arcade, enterprise and subscription (2016-2017)

In December 2016, HTC announced Viveport Arcade, a storefront for arcades and other out-of-home venues, and a partnership with Leke VR to distribute content through Leke's VRLe platform in China and Taiwan. Road to VR reported a target of 1,000 locations in China and Taiwan by the end of 2016, with the partnership expanding the VRLe library to 300 titles. At CES in January 2017, HTC said Viveport Arcade was in more than 1,000 locations in China, projected more than 5,000 locations worldwide by the end of 2017, and also announced Viveport Enterprise, a separate store for professional uses such as healthcare, engineering, real estate and retail.

The same CES announcement introduced a subscription service, which HTC described as the first app subscription service for VR content. Viveport Subscription launched on April 5, 2017, at US$6.99 per month. Subscribers chose five titles each month from a library of more than 50 at launch and could rotate their selection every month. HTC said at the time that more than 1,600 titles for the Vive were available across different app stores.

Standalone headsets and the Rift (2018)

Viveport became the content store for Vive Wave, HTC's platform for standalone and mobile VR headsets, including the HTC Vive Focus. At GDC in March 2018, HTC offered developers who submitted content to Viveport in China a 100% revenue share on title sales and subscription revenue there between April and September 2018.

On September 4, 2018, HTC opened Viveport to Oculus Rift owners, with nearly 200 compatible games and apps at first. Road to VR reported that Rift support relied on the same OpenVR compatibility that lets SteamVR titles run on both headsets, and that the subscription by then cost US$9 per month for five titles from a catalog of about 500.

Viveport Infinity (2019)

Viveport Infinity replaced the five-title model with unlimited access. It launched on April 2, 2019, at US$12.99 per month or US$99 per year, with a library of more than 600 apps and games for Vive, Oculus Rift and Vive Wave standalone headsets. To attract developers, HTC cut its share of subscription revenue from 30% to 20% from April 1 through the end of 2019. HTC announced Infinity support for the Valve Index on August 29, 2019, and listed the price as US$12.99 per month, or US$8.99 per month with annual prepayment.

In December 2019, HTC launched Viveport Streaming in public beta. It let Infinity subscribers play PC VR titles wirelessly on the HTC Vive Focus Plus and other 6DoF Vive Wave standalone headsets (the original Vive Focus excepted) over a 5 GHz Wi-Fi router. Road to VR noted that this raised the number of titles available to those headsets from about 300 on Viveport M, the mobile store, to more than 2,000.

Later changes (2021-2026)

With the HTC Vive Flow glasses in October 2021, HTC introduced a Viveport plan for the device at US$5.99 per month, covering well-being, brain training, productivity and light gaming apps. Viveport's help center describes Infinity Vista as a budget subscription plan for "VR Glasses" including the Vive Flow, Vive Focus and Vive Focus Plus. It is billed monthly only and covers selected mobile content, while Focus 3 owners are pointed to the full Infinity plan and PC VR streaming.

On March 18, 2024, HTC announced that developers would keep 90% of revenue from one-time purchases of games and apps sold on Viveport for PC VR or the HTC Vive XR Elite. The change applied to new titles from April 1, 2024, and retroactively from March 1 for existing titles; Infinity subscription revenue was not covered. Joseph Lin was then general manager of Viveport.

Features

The store's catalog has included titles such as Tilt Brush and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, which Road to VR listed among the Infinity catalog in 2019, and Creed: Rise to Glory from Survios. Road to VR wrote in 2019 that Viveport did not have "any great anchor titles" that were unavailable on Steam or the Oculus Store.

As of September 2026, the Viveport website offers two subscription plans. Infinity, sold as a monthly plan or as an annual plan billed monthly, is described as giving "unlimited access to 1,000+ PCVR games" and as "the only PCVR subscription plan for gaming that supports all major headsets", including Meta Quest via Meta Quest Link. Infinity Vista covers content for all-in-one devices. The site advertises a 7-day free trial.

Supported devices

Viveport's help center lists Infinity (PC VR) as compatible with the HTC Vive, HTC Vive Cosmos and Cosmos Elite, Vive Pro and Pro 2, HTC Vive Focus 3 with Business Streaming, Vive XR Elite with VIVE Streaming, Meta Quest 2 and 3 with Link, Oculus Rift, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. HTC's product page for the HTC Vive Focus Vision says the headset gets apps and games from the Viveport Store when used standalone, and that VIVE Streaming gives access to the PC VR libraries on Viveport and SteamVR.

Developers

HTC publishes submission guidelines that developers follow to get approval and publish apps on Viveport for both Vive/OpenVR and mobile.

Period	Developer share	Scope
2016 launch	70%	Standard split
April-September 2018	100%	Title sales and subscription revenue in China
April 1-December 31, 2019	80%	Infinity subscription revenue
From March/April 2024	90%	One-time purchases for PC VR and Vive XR Elite

Reception

In 2018, Road to VR wrote that Viveport "has struggled to find a compelling differentiator" against SteamVR, which had long supported both the Vive and the Rift and had a larger library. After Infinity launched, Road to VR's Scott Hayden called the service "a pretty compelling value proposition" in June 2019, while criticizing the low-quality filler in its catalog and the absence of exclusive anchor titles.

Genres

• Adventure
• Casual
• Action
• Racing
• Shooter
• Sports
• Strategy
• RPG
• Video
• Simulation
• Horror
• Music
• Sci-Fi
• Real-estate
• Documentary
• Health & Fitness
• Narrative
• Travel
• Escape Room
• Business
• Education
• Productivity
• Social
• Art & Design

See also

• Meta Quest Store
• SideQuest