Software Flood to start HTC Vive – Heise Newsticker

“VR is there” – so it is currently located on Steam

(Image: Valve (Screenshot))

immediately the Virtual Reality system HTC Vive is “available”, which means that the first pre-orders get these days their package. Surprise: There are more software than expected. . Among other things, you can play with planet Basketball

Now is also the second virtual reality headset on the market: After the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive is considered “launched” – which in practice means that the first pre-orders get their long-awaited package these days. When appearing Vive and Rift in retail, is still unclear.

While Oculus’s massive investment in exclusive titles, set HTC and especially Vive co-developer Valve on an open software concept. Almost all interested developers have previously received a Vive glasses, but otherwise no funds flowed. The result has paid off: the start of the Vive there are more software than for Oculus (see photo spreads and table below)

Instead of Half-Life 3 and Portal. 3: planetary Basketball

Snore: When “Ikea VR Experience” one must take a pan out of the drawers – much more terrible.
image: c’t <- rspeak_start -> Instead of! awaited by fans Valve titles (! Half-Life 3 portal 2), has the famous developer forged only a VR demo games for Vive launch at the start – in but clearly much love behind this: the free “the Lab “combines some of the well-known trade fairs Vive demos (Aperture Robot Repair, archery) with some other small VR gimmicks. Among other things, you can play in the solar system floating with the planet Basketball

on the fun scale clearly positioned below is the “Ikea VR Experience” – in a kitchen with washed textures one may change the color of the cabinets and take a frying pan from a drawer

Overall, many Vive software titles act a bit. rough as the Oculus Rift launch title – but they are also often more innovative. Most Vive title exude from every byte that the makers had a blast in the development.

No exclusive titles for HTC Vive

Exclusive titles are available on the Vive Incidentally, not a single – that is not just for pure technical. Each VR software on Steam will also start with the Oculus Rift (in the c’t laboratory with both the DK2 as well with the final version). Lack hand controllers to get the Rift however many programs not far. On the Steam Store page for each VR title is therefore shown that the software only works with hand controllers or with conventional gamepads.

Make a thorough check to a large extent identical with the final version “Vive Pre” there on c’t online

Capria: Magic of the Elements

launch titles for the HTC Vive
name	Genre	Price	Even with Oculus Rift playable
# selfie Tennis	Sport	€ 19.99	no
5089: The Action RPG	Action	€ 7.99	yes
A chair in a Room: Greenwater	Adventure	€ 22.99	no
A legend of Luca	Adventure	€ 19.99	no
Albino Lullaby: Episode 1	Horror	€ 9.99	yes
Apollo 11	Space edutainment	€ 14.99	yes
Bazaar	strategy	9.99 €	yes
Blarp!	Indie	€ 2.99	nO
Bowslinger	Sport	€ 12.74	no
Butts	VR short	0.99 €	no
Carpe Lucem – Seize the Light	puzzle	€ 12.74	yes
Celestrion	simulation	0.99 €	no
Cloudlands	Sport	19.99 €	no
Crystal Rift	Adventure	€ 14.99	yes
Fantastic Contraption	puzzle	€ 36.99 (free for Vive-purchaser)	no
Felt Tip Circus	Action	€ 7.99	no
Final Approach	Action	€ 27.74	no
Gumball drift	Action	14.99	yes
Gunjack	Action	€ 9.99	no
Hover Junkers	Action	€ 31.99	no
Ikea VR Experience	Kitchens simulation	free	no
Jaunt VR	360 degree video Player	free	yes
Jeeboman	Action	€ 9.99	no
job simulator	fun simulation	€ 36.99 (free for Vive-purchaser)	no
Jump	Action	€ 9.99	no
Kumoon: VR expansion Kit 01	Action	4.99	yes
Light Repair team # 4	puzzle	€ 5.35	no
Marble Mountain	Action	€ 9.99	yes
Metaverse Construction Kit	sandbox simulation	free	no
Mind: Path to thalamus	Adventure	€ 8.99	yes
Minigame Party VR	Action	€ 4.49	no
Quar: Battle for gate 18	strategy	€ 19.99	no
Realities. io	photogrammetry travel	free	no
Ruckus Ridge VR Party	Action	€ 22.99	yes
Sculptr VR	sculpture simulation	€ 19.99	no
Sisters	Adventure	n	no
Skeet: VR target Shooting	Action	free	no
Space bit Attack	Action	€ 2.99	yes
Spell Fighter VR	edutainment	free	no
The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed	Adventure	€ 27.99	no
The Lab	VR Showcase	free	no
The Visitor	Indie	0.99 €	yes
Unseen Diplomacy	Action	€ 2.99	no
Vanishing Reals	Adventure	€ 19.99
Virtual desktop	desktop display tool	14.99	yes
VR Baseball – Home Run Derby	Sport	€ 8.99	no
Water Bears VR	puzzle	€ 9.99	no
Wind Lands	Adventure	€ 19.99	yes
early- Access Games
Babel: Tower to the Gods	puzzle	€ 8.49	no
Capria: Magic of the Elements	Action	€ 5.99	no
Holodance	Sport	€ 8.49	no
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & amp; Hand Grenades	Action	€ 19.99	no
La Peri	dance poem	€ 9.99	no
Lecture VR	Education	Free to play	yes
MODBOX	sandbox simulation	€ 13.49	no
Pierhead Arcade	Action	€ 8.99	no
Space Pirate coach	Action	€ 14.99	no
Spells ‘n’ Stuff	Action	€ 9.89	no
The Grand Canyon VR Experience	edutainment	€ 4.99	yes
Time Machine VR	Adventure	€ 19.99	yes
Toy Plane Heroes	Action	€ 11.69	yes
Universe Sandbox²	sandbox simulation	€ 22.99	nO

(jkj)