HTC announces the winners of its first annual Viveport Developer Awards-February 2024-www.yitit.com

　　Image used with permission by copyright holderHTC created its Viveport app store as an easy way for users of its Vive virtual reality (VR) system to locate, purchase, and download new VR apps. Viveport also serves as a place for developers to showcase their apps, allowing them to feature their work somewhere other than the crowded Steam store.

　　The company also kicked off another effort to spur developers to make apps for the HTC Vive, specifically the Viveport Developer Awards (VDA), which honor — and financially reward — the best apps. That contest has now concluded, and HTC announced the winners on its Vive blog.

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　　The first annual VDA offered up $500,000 in award money to the best apps in four categories. First prize was $50,000, second prize was $30,000, third prize was $15,000, and a special community’s choice winner netted $10,000. Each winning entry along with two runners-up also received an HTC Vive system.

　　Here are the winners:

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	First place	Second place	Third place	Runners up
Explore	Apollo 11 VR	Realities	The Body VR	A Chair in a Room: Greenwater, Mars Odyssey
Create	Fantastic Contraption	Soundstage	Paintlab	Kodon, Arcade Artist
Connect	Cloudlands: VR Minigolf	Altspace VR	Engage	World of Diving, SurrealVR
Experience	Allumette	Pearl	Firebird – La Péri	TheBlu, The Night Café: A VR Tribute to Van Gogh
Community	A Chair in a Room: Greenwater

　　Three of the winners, Penrose Studios, Futuretown, and Northway Games, will join an on-stage discussion panel on March 3, 2017 at the upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. If you’re an HTC Vive user, then head over to Viveport to pick up the first-place apps at a 40-percent discount through March 2, 2017.