Viveport, the HTC Vive app store, is marking its one-year anniversary by introducing a number of new features at the Virtual Reality Developers Conference.

Viveport celebrates first year

The VRDC brings together creators of immersive, virtual, augmented and mixed reality to innovate and identify business opportunities in San Francisco, US, from September 21-22.

Viveport Arcade Manager is HTC Vive's proprietary content management and distribution platform and has been given a number of upgrades to improve user experience.

“From launching the first-ever subscription model for a VR app store to exceeding 1,000 titles available globally, to over 26,000 registered developers in our community, Viveport has grown by leaps and bounds over the past year,” said Rikard Steiber, president of Viveport.

“We enter year two with exciting new features and improvements to continue our commitment to providing the best VR experience for Viveport customers and the most monetisation options for developers.”

The company will also release Viveport Scene SDK, a new toolset that will help developers create immersive VR previews that will be showcased in Viveport.

Drew Bamford, corporate vice president of HTC Vive’s creative labs, said: “Our research has shown that customers vastly prefer VR previews over screenshots and videos to inform their purchasing decision. We are thrilled that the Viveport Scene SDK will provide developers with a new avenue for discoverability and engagement on the Viveport store.”