The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Sequenced is a good example of an experience that is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with VR storytelling, and so there’s a good chance that it might be ahead of what the VR audience is ready for. Sequenced is an ambitious effort, and doing some important work in pushing the boundaries of interactive narrative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired. They continue to support and collaborate with outside companies, of course — you’ll probably be able to use Google Maps on the Vision Pro, for example — but I wouldn’t expect the competitive atmosphere to change much.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Lindero's first product was an educational application/software called “ Milo and Brandie’s Jungle Adventure ”, released on Apple Store and Google Play. He couldn't wait to try his hand in something challenging, and took Gillian's offer as soon as the olive branch was extended.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. You may be saying “Come on! As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.:

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google).

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As a small example, my launch headset arrived with the headset harness offset to one side due to improper assembly , which caused it to sit skewed on my head as the offset gap just got larger the further the headband was opened. . Example of CAD file released by Valve (Image by Valve).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

It combines the intense action of games like Unreal Tournament with the mechanized combat and spectacle of a futuristic sports league. Now, it’s available on both the HTC Vive and PS VR as well and features fully-operational cross-play multiplayer between all three major devices and that vision is even more realized.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking on Midwam’s industry and global partnerships, he explained that real-time 3D (RT3D) platforms such as Unity Technologies and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine had collaborated “for many years” and were “reliable companies.” Currently, ExplodedView is iOS exclusive.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering. Put it into VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: So somebody who -- let's say, for example -- is a furniture store, local furniture store. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: So somebody who -- let's say, for example -- is a furniture store, local furniture store. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

However, the company is partnered with household names like nvidia, Unity, Unreal Engine, and HTC. It’s a kind of more complicated version of the collaborative editing that you may be familiar with through tools like Google Drive. More impressively and importantly, DragonFly works with Unreal Engine, Unity 3D, and Autodesk Maya.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: So somebody who -- let's say, for example -- is a furniture store, local furniture store. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. Google launches AR Live View for Maps. The time has come.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. One example is retail employees. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. One example is retail employees. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. There's a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren't as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they're all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, "hey, would you like this room moved over here?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So remote support, for example. RealWear’s a great example. Colgate, for example. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So remote support, for example. RealWear’s a great example. Colgate, for example. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise.

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Machine Learning Training Wearables AR 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So remote support, for example. RealWear's a great example. Colgate, for example. So if you want to know more about this, it's brainxchange.com and just look for EWTS, or just Google "Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit". But there's a lot going on.

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