Viveport Review: Pixel Ripped 1989
Step into a wacky world where reality and video games clash in an epic mash-up that will leave you wanting to play for hours.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
When you first start Pixel Ripped 1989, the world feels nostalgic, with cardboard cutouts lining the wall bringing everything to life. You sit in a chair before a massive, clunky old TV, with a controller in your hand. Pressing buttons on your Vive controller causes your hand to move in-g
Viveport Review: Magic Lantern VR
Relax in this smartly-designed virtual playroom, with fun for the whole family.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
In the age of the VR content boom of the last three years, it’s safe to say that there’s been an underserved amount of experiences intended for younger audiences. Some hardware manufacturers tend to limit use to ages 12 or 13 and up, but Vive has recommended a sweet spot of about seven years old with limited use. What that means is tha
Viveport Review: Mars 2030
Beautiful imagery and stunning vistas feel flat against the lack of challenge in Mars 2030.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
When I think of Mars, I imagine the terror that comes from exploring a place completely unknown to man. So, when I dove into Mars 2030 for the first time, I was intrigued to see how the experience handled the thrill of the unknown. Unfortunately, pretty visuals, stunning vistas, and an excellent experience are all brought to thei
Viveport Review: C O S M Worlds Within Worlds
Go deeper than ever before as COSM takes you on a journey that you’ll never forget. You won’t miss a single cell!
By Emily Medlock, Greenlit Content
Science geeks, beware! You may spend hours living out your dreams in COSM Worlds Within Worlds.
Remember the hype about the game Everything where you could play as anything in the universe, from a bumble bee to the blade of grass it’s crawling on? Well, COSM is reminiscent of that gener
Viveport Review: Moss
This harrowing tale of an unlikely hero is touching and shows just how fluid virtual reality platformers can be.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
I’ll come right out and say it. I’m not a big fan of platforming or side scrolling games in virtual reality. I’ve always felt like they fit better on a computer screen than they do in virtual reality. However, Moss might be the game that makes me really change my mind.
Told through the eyes of a small mouse n
Viveport Review: ARK Park
The idea of a living, breathing dinosaur-based theme park in virtual reality is brought to its knees by over saturation and a lack of any real identity.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
More is not always better. When ARK Park was first announced, I was excited, even enamored at the idea. However, now that I’ve had a chance to actually dive into the game and try it out for myself, I really can’t help but feel like the developers have over-extended thems
Viveport Review: ROM: Extraction
Armed with powerful orbs, you’ll duck, dodge, and return fire against swarms of alien bots in one of the Vive’s best action games.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
Oozing with style and looking gorgeous while running buttery smooth on the Unreal Engine, First Contact Entertainment’s ROM: Extraction takes the action-packed wave shooter genre and cranks it up to new heights in this hyper-kinetic firefight with a twist. In the not too distant fut
Viveport Review: AI Rebellion
Immergity’s starfighter sim delivers beautiful visuals but lackluster gameplay.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
AI Rebellion has a lot to offer when it comes to visuals. The game looks beautiful, and the sensation of flying through space is wonderful. The bad thing, though, is that these beautiful visuals are all torn to pieces by lackluster audio and a limited gameplay loop.
The first time I loaded into AI Rebellion, I was excited. The cockpit
Viveport Review: Asteroid Blaster VR
Prepare for classic arcade blasting madness with this homage to the smash hit coin-op game, Asteroids.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
Strap yourself in for a hyperkinetic space ride in Asteroid Blaster VR, as you don your jetpack in a 3D throwback to the classic rock-blasting 70’s arcade shooter, Asteroids.
The development team at Senomix Research makes no mistake in acknowledging their inspiration from the original Asteroids gameplay,
Viveport Review: Acute Art VR Museum
Developed specifically for virtual reality, Acute Art VR Museum introduces users to stunning and beautiful artwork told in the most immersive way possible.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
The idea behind Acute Art VR Museum is an intriguing one, and the overall goal the developers have set out to complete is admirable. Virtual reality offers an immersive way to bring art to life, and Acute Art VR Museum looks to make that experience even
Viveport Review: Skill Master VR - Learn Meditation
Build focus by visualizing your breath in a virtual reality experience created specifically to help you meditate.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
Meditation is utilized in schools and hospitals across the world. Certain types of meditation are used to treat mental health conditions including severe anxiety, clinical depression, and more. Seeing projects like Skill Master VR teach valuable mindfulness and self-care techniques
Viveport Review: Go For Launch: Mercury
Without becoming an astronaut, Go For Launch: Mercury is without question the best way to experience outer space with both feet firmly planted on Earth.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
The power of education in virtual reality is still something being explored by content creators and educators across the globe. From visiting the Titanic before its fateful iceberg crash, to exploring the Amazon rainforest to see a world that few will ever
Viveport Review: Noda
Noda allows you to map your thoughts, plan your projects and brainstorm in the comfort of virtual reality.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
Mind mapping is a popular method for getting your thoughts out there and organizing them in an easy to see environment. Noda takes the idea behind mind mapping and transfers it into virtual reality, giving you a massive canvas to work with and connect the dots as you want to. It’s a nice idea, but overall it feels a bi
Viveport Review: Ultimate Booster Experience
Hold on for the ride of your life in the Ultimate Booster Experience and prepare to take yourself to new heights!
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
The premise in Ultimate Booster Experience is simple. Headset on, you’ll emerge standing in front of five separate experience orbs. Each will thrust you into a variety of different death defying thrill rides in this unique and thrilling package of experiences for speed junkies and daredev
Viveport Review: Solitaire VR
Looking for a game to play all by your lonesome with a little bit of a spooky twist? Think you have the guts to survive a night of card playing all alone in a haunted mansion? Look no further than Solitaire VR.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
Patience, better known as Solitaire in the US and Canada, is the collective name for a number of card games that can be played alone by a single player. Games of Patience generally involve removing car
Viveport Review: Frontier VR
Survive the old Frontier in the American West as you experience a wilderness teaming with tiny bunnies and ferocious grizzly bears.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
In Frontier VR, armed with a revolver, sawed off shotgun, or a sniper rifle, you’ll be thrust into three different locations and tasked with hunting the fauna throughout the uniquely stylized low polygonal scenery.
Part of the charm of Frontier's art direction stems from watchin
Viveport Review: Final Soccer VR
Deflecting soccer balls is one thing, but actually kicking balls with your feet towards the goal? Mind blowing!
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
You might remember this title’s initial release on Vive way back in November of 2016 when it was called Final Goalie. The talented team at Ivanovich Games has a healthy catalog of great experiences under their belt, and Final Goalie was always a shining example of quality sports arcade simulation in vir
HTC VIVE 3DSP SDK
HTC VIVE 3DSP is an audio SDK which provide applications with spatial audio, a key factor for an immersive VR experience. With the HTC VIVE 3DSP SDK, the spatial perception is simulated by specific functions and features, such as head-related transfer functions recording and improvement, higher-order ambisonic simulation of sound direction, room audio simulation, adding background noise floor, real-world acoustic property of distance, geometric and raycast occlusion, Hi-Res au
Viveport Review: Puppet Fever
This family-friendly party game lets you create puppet stories that are fun and safe for the whole family.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
Giving you access to a host of virtual puppets and stages, Puppet Fever is a modern-day, 21st century, virtual and interactive take on charades.
Coastalbyte Games came up with their initial idea for Puppet Fever after an intense hackathon. It's one of those ideas that's so brilliantly simple it's surp
Viveport Review: Black Shield: Upora Story
A swarm of enemy robots have their sights set on you, but thankfully, you have the weapons to defeat the horde.
By Desmond Madison, Greenlit Content
The lead entry point for what’s planned to be a grand-scale “Black Shield Universe” full of dazzling sci-fi combat, Black Shield: Uprora Story puts players in the heat of battle with some of the most impressive visuals on the platform.
Developed by Shanghai Vsensory Network Technology,
Viveport Review: Beast Pets (Early Access)
Make new friends and create new friendships in this cute and fun pet simulator.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
Virtual reality has a lot of uses, and while many people are focused on creating more mature content for VR headsets, developer Beast Inc. chose to instead focus their own development on designing a cute, fun, and fantastical adventure that can be enjoyed by all ages. Beast Pets is quirky, it’s cute, and it’s pretty much e
Viveport Review: Final Force
Dive into a futuristic world of brutality in Final Force, which features some of the best melee combat you’ll experience in VR.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
Few games in the virtual reality market have ever tried to diversify the first-person shooter genre, usually sticking with simpler things that fit well within the already pre-defined confines of the basic formula. While Final Force doesn’t do much to break out of said formula, developer Ti
Viveport Review: Panzer Panic
Panzer Panic offers an immersive and arcade-like experience that’s frantic and fun.
By Joshua Hawkins, Greenlit Content
A lot of virtual reality developers choose to focus on immersion and realism above everything else. Sometimes this can lead to experiences that feel forced and unoptimized. For developer HandyGames, though, fun is the most important factor, and Panzer Panic is a fun, yet immersive game that offers an action-packed multiplayer romp
