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When Will HTC Go Bust?

Anonymous
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I think they'll go under before the end of the year.

What do you guys and girls think..?
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Zenbane
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HTC may very well prolong their life now that they have opened up VivePort compatibility with the Rift!

The Oculus Rift is finally welcome in Viveport, HTC's VR store.

You'll
be able to easily see which titles are compatible with the Vive and
Rift, thanks to small icons in every listing. Oculus owners can also
filter out all of the titles that won't work with their headsets.

HTC
says developers can choose to list their games as Oculus compatible
today, and titles that have been tweaked to work with the OpenVR
standard should be ready to go.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/16/oculus-rift-htc-viveport-vr/


The
article does chastise Oculus a bit for the DRM check back in 2016,
which I think is a low blow since we've all moved beyond that after
nearly 2 years. Ignoring that piece of the article (which does feel is bait), I'm wondering how this could
potentially play out for Oculus' approach to their own Store. I imagine
nothing will change in terms of Oculus' perceived hardware exclusivity,
and in the end this is likely just HTC needing to generate more Revenue.


I feel like this move by HTC is less of a symbol about "VR for Everyone" and more of a strategic move to gain competitive advantage. But that's just a hunch.

🙂

Morgrum
Expert Trustee
Yea but seriously name a viveport title that you want to play which isnt on the OH.
WAAAGH!

kojack
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HTC
says developers can choose to list their games as Oculus compatible
today, and titles that have been tweaked to work with the OpenVR
standard should be ready to go.



But... isn't that every title? Vive only uses OpenVR,  shouldn't every title on Viveport be tweaked to work with the OpenVR standard? 🙂

What they should have said was tweaked to understand that people with controllers that aren't wands with touch pads would like decent controls.

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KlodsBrik
Expert Trustee
Isn´t it their supcription service they hope will attract oculus users ?
$8.95 a month for some 5 swappable titles.

It´s not for me, but I can see why a lot of VR users would make use of it.
Be good, die great !

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
At least the Oculus owners will get to play the fill Read Player One Viveport titles now!
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Anonymous
Not applicable
They've probably opened it up to Rift owners because (going by various posts on the Vive sub-Reddit since it started) a great deal of Vive owners don't bother with it because it's unstable and a bit crap in terms of content.

I'll stick with the Oculus Store and Steam I think.

Anonymous
Not applicable
Sadly, I think the Vive is here to stay. VR has become a cash-grab for HTC : as long as there are people to buy the Vive, HTC will stay on its feet.

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
I think the whole "them" and "us" attitude to VR manufacturers needs to now evaporate towards a "we" mentality. The communities business now is to get VR to survive and grow in the consumer space - the more the merrier. And lets not start enjoying schadenfreude at the thought of the closure of another company.
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

kevinw729
Honored Visionary

Pabbert said:


....
You could already get this via SteamVR



The VR Arcade titles developed in partnership with HTC were only available on Viveport Arcade!

https://www.vive.com/uk/ready-player-one-vr-arcade/
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

Sharpfish
Heroic Explorer
Competition is only good if the competition is actually good.

Nobody wants a race to the bottom for VR, it's too soon.

Oculus hold themselves up to a higher bar, so far, regardless of what anyone else is doing. They've been that way since before facebook and right up till now. They take VR very seriously. They are not in it for cash grabs.

Palmer may have departed but "oculus" was aways striving to bring proper VR, with quality and standards, to the masses in the correct way, not always the cheapest way, not the fastest way (like many janky competitors).

As said, competition is good and will be good/needed once we've reached the bare minimum anti-jank level in VR (where any old dodgy chinese company can't fail to make something great because tech is at that level). Until then, whether HTC go under or not is irrelevant to anyone interested in great VR. I for one will never buy another HTC branded/Designed VR system. I never want to use wands/touchpads again. The only slight redeeming feature about the whole 'competitor' is Valve, but they've basically done sweet FA for years and certainly didn't bring anything new to HTC with the Vive Janky Pro. And where did LG go?

Valve and Steam VR has a future, that I want to stick around. But hardware wise it's all about oculus/FB right now and for the near future because nothing I've seen from anyone else comes close to the quality of all the important factors combined (not just resolution, not just tracking quality etc).

In fact it may be a good thing for VR for HTC to go belly up and leave it to companies who can design a HMD worth a damn. Valve basically invented all the cool stuff for them anyway, and HTC made a shit-show out of the tech.

And btw, Oculus already are the "Nvidia of VR" in that they make the best highest quality stuff with the best performance all round, and don't just release janky shit for the sake of it. 

I'll be lining up for a RTX2080ti to go with my current 8700k (4.8ghz on all cores no issues no throttling) (or I'll even upgrade to the 9900k no sweat - I have tons of money to spend on VR and want quality not jank) if I want great VR and great all round gaming.

If others choose AMD because they like the perception of 'more for your money' that's their look out. Don't come crying when you're left in the dust (again) in VR, 4k, and general gaming instead of going Intel/Nvidia like you should have (and sucked up the extra $200-$300 for a good reason. Quality, performance, stability... just like Oculus with the rift.


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