Wevr Launches First Subscription Service for Cinematic Virtual Reality
Virtual reality startup Wevr thinks it’s time to set a price for premium virtual reality content. The company announced the launch of a new premium subscription service for cinematic virtual reality Wednesday — a first for an industry that has thus far shied away from asking its small but growing audience to pay up for most non-gaming titles.
Wevr is launching its subscription service as a premium tier of its Transport app, which is already available for HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR headsets. Vive users will have to pay $20 a year to access premium content like Deepak Chopra’s “Finding Your True Self” and Tyler Hurd’s “Old Friend,” whereas Gear VR users are charged $8 a year for content that also works on mobile headsets.
“A lot of our content is not games,” he said, which is why it didn’t make much sense to charge for individual titles the same way as VR gaming companies do on platforms like Steam. Users would also approach these stores with certain expectations, and cinematic VR content tended to get lost between gaming titles. “It’s like vegetarian food at a meat store,” he quipped.
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