Viveport, yay or nay?

kinger8938 · 21 Oct 2020 at 13:38

https://www.viveport.com/

I didnt realise this was a thing. It has a few titles I'm interested in, the room vr, vertigo etc and I rarely play VR games again after completion.

Anyone use the service?

I have a Rift S, how seamless is it all?

Thanks

ttaskmaster · 21 Oct 2020 at 14:01

I was looking at this just last night.
It had a couple of videos I thought I'd try... but it just sat there with the icon spinning, for 10 minutes.
Gave up, uninstalled, used Steam VR instead, and faffed about with Aircar for an hour or so.

kinger8938 · 21 Oct 2020 at 14:08

ttaskmaster said:
I was looking at this just last night.
It had a couple of videos I thought I'd try... but it just sat there with the icon spinning, for 10 minutes.
Gave up, uninstalled, used Steam VR instead, and faffed about with Aircar for an hour or so.

Oh

That's not good. I assume you download the content? That sounds like it streams it? If that's the case I'm not interested either

melmac · 21 Oct 2020 at 14:25

kinger8938 said:
Oh

That's not good. I assume you download the content? That sounds like it streams it? If that's the case I'm not interested either

Think there is a misunderstanding somewhere. I am not sure what Ttaskmaster is talking about.

Viveport has a Virtual Hub like the Steam VR home and Oculus Home where you can browse the games etc that they have available in your headset. I have never used it, it's supposed to be crap.

But, you don't need to use because Viveport runs on the desktop as well. It's just a utility for choosing the games you want to download and play. It's a subscription service, as you know, but you can choose to buy the games if you want.

When you download a game it plays through Steam VR, it isn't streamed. And it's usually seamless.

If you are a new customer and sign up, they usually give you a free trial period, sometimes even a free game.

I never had any problems with it when I used it. I just didn't think the content was that great and I usually like to replay games so I prefer to buy in most cases. But, you should check out the free trial and see how you get on.

ttaskmaster · 21 Oct 2020 at 14:33

melmac said:
Think there is a misunderstanding somewhere. I am not sure what Ttaskmaster is talking about.

It has several VR Experience type films you can watch for free. I clicked (in the desktop app) to play a few, it displayed the interface and loading screen just fine in my Vive, and then just hung every time.
I took a wander through all the settings, checked everything I could think of, but it just hangs every time. No idea what it's doing and it's not using any bandwidth, but I gave up after the fifth attempt.

kinger8938 · 21 Oct 2020 at 14:48

melmac said:
Think there is a misunderstanding somewhere. I am not sure what Ttaskmaster is talking about.

Viveport has a Virtual Hub like the Steam VR home and Oculus Home where you can browse the games etc that they have available in your headset. I have never used it, it's supposed to be crap.

But, you don't need to use because Viveport runs on the desktop as well. It's just a utility for choosing the games you want to download and play. It's a subscription service, as you know, but you can choose to buy the games if you want.

When you download a game it plays through Steam VR, it isn't streamed. And it's usually seamless.

If you are a new customer and sign up, they usually give you a free trial period, sometimes even a free game.

I never had any problems with it when I used it. I just didn't think the content was that great and I usually like to replay games so I prefer to buy in most cases. But, you should check out the free trial and see how you get on.

Thanks for all that info! I'll check it out see if theres a trial.

I was about to buy Vertigo Remastered but it's on this service so will see what the best option is.

It sounds fine if a little light on content. It has some of the main games I guess but not many

melmac · 21 Oct 2020 at 17:28

ttaskmaster said:
It has several VR Experience type films you can watch for free. I clicked (in the desktop app) to play a few, it displayed the interface and loading screen just fine in my Vive, and then just hung every time.
I took a wander through all the settings, checked everything I could think of, but it just hangs every time. No idea what it's doing and it's not using any bandwidth, but I gave up after the fifth attempt.

Well thanks for letting me know. I never went into the Viveport VR hub as I heard it was rubbish and I didn't need anything in it anyway.

melmac · 21 Oct 2020 at 17:31

kinger8938 said:
It sounds fine if a little light on content. It has some of the main games I guess but not many

You have a 14 day trial of Viveport Infinity if you sign up. You have to enter in your payment details though, so if you don't like it, make sure you cancel before the 14 days end.

Content is very light!! Maybe it has improved since I last tried it, but, after my Trial period there was no game on it I wanted to play.

ttaskmaster · 21 Oct 2020 at 17:33

melmac said:
Well thanks for letting me know. I never went into the Viveport VR hub as I heard it was rubbish and I didn't need anything in it anyway.

I just wanted something to check I'd set everything up correctly, and this was part of the setup/drivers/stuff package.
It works fine in Steam, so whatever Viveport is doing, I don't have the time to **** around with it and clearly don't need it.