I think you need to have the Vive Console running, but as someone else pointed out you can just not use Vive Origin as your home if you don't like it. You shouldn't write off Viveport, it has a lot of games that are well worth playing that you can play for free with Infinity Subscription.... like Creed, Arizona Sunshine, etc. Also has games I wanted to try but didn't really want to shell out money to try like Five Nights at Freddy's, Doctor Who, Curious Tale of Stolen Pets, etc. Viveport doesn't have much in the way of multiplayer FPS games; its missing onward, pavlov, etc. That would be my one complaint of Viveport Infinity. I ultimately returned the Cosmos because of tracking.... but use Viveport with my two Vive Pro headsets.