HTC VIVE and Virtualware Announce Strategic Partnership

October 23, 2024 – HTC VIVE, a supplier of premium prolonged actuality (XR) options, and Virtualware, a European XR enterprise software program and options supplier, have just lately introduced a strategic partnership to speed up adoption of enterprise XR options throughout the Americas market.

In accordance with the businesses, the partnership establishes HTC VIVE as an official distributor of the VIROO Enterprise XR Software program Platform and functions in North America. Underneath the settlement, HTC VIVE will promote VIROO instantly in addition to by its value-added reseller community within the Americas.

VIROO is an enterprise XR platform that gives corporations and establishments with safe entry to immersive expertise by public or non-public cloud providers or by an on-premises server structure. The platform supplies a number of ready-to-use functions for customers, in addition to instruments for builders to create, handle and distribute their very own customized multi-user XR simulation and digital twin functions. 

“Our partnership with Virtualware permits us to supply enterprise clients a broader portfolio of options which are built-in with HTC VIVE’s merchandise and applied sciences,” mentioned Dan O’Brien, President Americas at HTC VIVE. “The VIROO platform is a confirmed enterprise XR software program platform that allows massive organizations to scale multi-user collaboration, coaching and digital twin capabilities securely and cheaply by public cloud and personal company infrastructure.”

The businesses famous that 17 of 23 federal civilian businesses used immersive expertise in fiscal yr 2023, in keeping with a survey performed by the US Authorities Accountability Workplace. With the adoption of XR gadgets on the rise, many organizations place a powerful emphasis on safety, together with to be used instances like engineering design, digital twins of restricted websites, and coaching simulations.

Virtualware and HTC VIVE additionally emphasised the significance that each corporations place on guaranteeing privateness and safety for his or her clients. Virtualware already works with corporations in industries that require excessive ranges of information safety, equivalent to nuclear energy. As such, it holds certifications in ISO27001, a globally acknowledged normal for data safety, in addition to ISO9001:2015, the usual for high quality administration techniques. HTC VIVE added that its personal international privateness compliance program is repeatedly monitored, reviewed, and up to date to fulfill certification necessities in requirements like ISO27001, ISO27701, SOC, and open requirements like BSIMM.

John A. Cunningham, President of Virtualware USA acknowledged: “HTC VIVE and Virtualware are already offering the underlying expertise platforms for giant organizations who’re scaling XR. For instance, GE Vernova has deployed our platforms to allow coaching for nuclear energy plant operations throughout the US and Canada. This new partnership [with HTC VIVE] opens up our merchandise to your entire XR ecosystem who need to develop finish consumer options utilizing confirmed applied sciences which have been designed from the bottom up for enterprise use.”

For extra data on Virtualware and its VIROO enterprise XR platform, click on here. To be taught extra about HTC VIVE’s options for enterprise and enterprise, together with its VIVE Enterprise+ providing and its newest VIVE Focus Imaginative and prescient XR headset, click on here.

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