{"id":116597,"date":"2017-04-05T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116597"},"modified":"2017-04-05T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T08:37:30","slug":"htc-launches-vr-gaming-subscription-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/116597-htc-launches-vr-gaming-subscription-service","title":{"rendered":"HTC launches VR gaming subscription service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HTC has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.vive.com\/us\/2017\/04\/03\/vive-day-celebration-for-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a><\/strong> a subscription service for its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viveport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viveport<\/a><\/strong> VR app marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>A Viveport subscription allows HTC Vive owners to pay a monthly fee of $6.99 and gain access to games in the Viveport library.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers can choose five titles per month and can rotate their selection every month, gaining unlimited access to the apps they choose.<\/p>\n<p>Users subscribed to Viveport can also purchase titles, permanently adding them to their library.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced that all HTC Vive owners would receive a free one-month trial of the subscription service.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can also redeem a free copy of Arcade Saga from Viveport on 5 April.<\/p>\n<p>HTC also announced that users who buy an HTC Vive headset on 5 April will receive $100 off their purchase.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/205750-htc-launches-subscription-service-for-vr-gamers.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/205632-great-new-playstation-4-deals-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Great new PlayStation 4 deals in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC has launched a subscription service for its Viveport VR app marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":86432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[13341,24219],"class_list":["post-116597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-htc-vive","tag-viveport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}