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HTC Vive Launches Viveport M Mobile VR Content Platform

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HTC announced today the official launch of the consumer version of the Viveport M mobile VR content platform. Viveport M is compatible with most Android phones and designed to allow you to easily find and use mobile VR applications or experience 360° videos in both touchscreen and VR modes.

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Facebook Launches Social VR ‘Spaces’ On HTC Vive

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Now available for the HTC Vive, Spaces added cross-platform functionality for the first time Tuesday, letting you hang out with friends on both the Vive and the Oculus Rift. Click here to download Spaces today. You can watch 360° videos together, make video calls, or draw in a 3D space. Own a Vive?

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Opera Browser Adds 360 Video Player for VR Headsets, Plans Full WebVR Support

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For OpenVR-compatible headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, watching streaming 360 video from from your browser is now as simple as clicking a button and putting on your headset. From a user’s perspective, all you have to do then is navigate to a 360 video and press the ‘VR mode’ button.

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‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to PC, Bringing the Platform’s 360 Videos to Vive, Rift, and Windows VR

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For Vive and Rift users interested in watching some of the interesting 360 video content out there, it’s been frustrating to either need to download a bespoke app for each video, use an unofficial workaround, or simply not have any way of accessing the content at all.

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Vrideo Launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

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So you just shot your first 360° video, maybe using a Gear 360 camera , and now you want to share your masterpiece with the world. If you uploaded your content to an immersive video platform like Vrideo , friends could already check out your latest work of art with a Google Cardboard or Gear VR headset by downloading an app.

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‘Firefox Reality’ VR Web Browser Comes to PC in Preview Version

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Firefox Reality , Mozilla’s made-for-VR web browser, has been available on standalone devices for some time now, featuring support for Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico standalones. Like with its standalone headset variant, Firefox Reality PC Preview supports standard 2D web browsing, 360 video, and immersive content.

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‘Facebook Spaces’ Gets HTC Vive Support, Now the Company’s First Cross-platform VR App

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Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Simply pick your platform, and download the file. Facebook’s extension of Spaces to HTC Vive somewhat clashes Oculus’ with historical practice of creating exclusive content to drive headset sales.

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