The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

During the interview we talked about practical stuff, like if HTC is working on a new product, and when we can expect to see lightweight AR glasses on the head of everyone. A lot of things have changed in your life since the last time we met: your role in HTC, the country you are in… So, how is life now? We communicate, right?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

But we know kids learn quickly and room-scale VR can be pretty darn intuitive. For example, when speaking with Jon Favreau about his latest VR demo experience, Gnomes & Goblins , that just hit the Steam VR store earlier this month, his developers were mindful of the ability to scale virtual worlds to a variety of users — big and small.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2018

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC. Who are you and what do you do in HTC? I’m Qiyong Chen, leader of HTC China Immersive Lab.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Brought to us by the directors of Netflix’s THE GREAT HACK , Persuasion Machines aims to a shed light on the many dangers threatening consumer privacy by immersing users in a multi-user VR experience in which players explore a sterile living room environment filled to the brim with various smart devices designed to weaponize our own data against us.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

There is an unprecedented demand for ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet the physical machines are really only part of the equation. The platform, which can be optimized for different stages of the learning process, mimics the physical cues of surgical actions, medical tools, and tissue variations. Canada, and U.K.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Experiential learning remains a cornerstone of immersive training and a key advantage of using virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions. So why does experiential learning and XR go hand in hand? XR Today takes a closer look. SPHE teachers are the compass that guides learners through this transformative cycle.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

Companies and Metaverse experts frequently use Ready Player One and other mainstream media examples to help audiences digest what a Metavese could be. The enterprise space is still fresh, with examples of business Metaverse solution providers and SDKs creating secure and reliable virtual solutions for various end-users.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

But just how far are we from becoming one with the metaverse and what can we learn about ourselves through sensory technologies? Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity. Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. Pokemon Go is a popular example that uses location-based AR. Pokemon Go is the best example that uses located based this type of targets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Gesture recognition: Some haptic gloves can work alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. These gloves are also compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets, offering excellent versatility. You can see a great example of what they look like in this demonstration from Jeff Bezos.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there is not only Samsung: XR2 Gen 2 is going to be integrated also by Immersed’s Visor, a new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a headset that is still undisclosed. This week they published a post of this series that talks about the Idea Engine and in it, you can see some examples of interesting VR interactions.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2021

THE MACHINES. For my review I only had access to two pinball machines; one based on the very popular Mandalorian series on Disney Plus, and another on Gareth Edward’s stand-alone movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The full game features eight pinball machines , each machine based on a different Star Wars storyline.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

There is an unprecedented demand for ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet the physical machines are really only part of the equation. The platform, which can be optimized for different stages of the learning process, mimics the physical cues of surgical actions, medical tools, and tissue variations.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. No one can compete now. Let me show you what are some of them.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As described on the campaign page, ZephVR is designed to work with all VR games and experiences by reacting to audio cues, using machine learning to trigger the two fans at appropriate moments, i.e. traveling at speed, or when a bullet whistles past your ear. If the cue is louder in one audio channel, one fan will spin faster.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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Upload VR

AUGUST 18, 2023

For existing VR makers like Pico, HTC, Meta, Valve, and Sony, a $3,500 headset-in-a-box might not be too threatening to their immediate positions, but what happens when Apple's less expensive follow-ups ship with much less bulk? Can these smaller players really hope to lure enough developers to compete with the likes of Meta and Apple?

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2017

According to Neurable, their upgraded headband for the HTC Vive combined with their advanced machine learning platform now means that players need only think to interact with their virtual environment. Here’s an example: The player is given several photos of various animals to choose from in VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2019

For example, playing Beat Saber on the highest level and frantically slashing colored blocks is going to put some stress on your arms. After all, he is the CEO of the company that created Rumii , a social VR tool that gives users a virtual space in which to collaborate and learn. . Great 60 min. immersive #VR audio). He’s in Miami.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. For example, “we can help provide access to the China market.” Tagged with: htc vive , Vive X. Invrse Reality aims to fuse physical and virtual reality.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

Time Machine VR Details: Developer: Minority Media. Available On: Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). Reviewed On: Steam (HTC Vive). Time Machine VR puts players inside a time traveling pod with different research tools in order help them learn about the underwater creatures of the past. Release Date: May 19th, 2016.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 5, 2017

HTC today launched its Viveport Subscription service, allowing players to choose five of a select range of VR apps every month. Whether you like to play, explore, learn or something else entirely, these apps should give you just a taste of the power of VR. Usually the service costs $6.99 For The Creators. For The Explorers.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Shen Ye, Global Head of Product at HTC VIVE , discussed the primary drivers of the XR industry, with the entry of Apple into the market being a significant factor driving changes in the industry. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

A great example of augmented reality is Pokemon Go, where pokemon were hidden like Easter eggs for users to find in the real world. Another example of AR is Snapchat lenses and Instagram filters. For example, VR is used to treat patients with anxiety and PTSD by re-enacting and helping them overcome their traumatic experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

But what I have learned in the past is that a headset must be tried and numbers never tell the full story, so I hope I can try this to tell you how good it is. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B was a lot of money?).

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

From the Global Economics standpoint, this means VR and AR are relevant across the world as they are fast becoming the default ways of learning, training and performing – across the workplace, in education organisations, and beyond. Workplace learning and on-site service processes usually take place ‘on’ a 2D environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove).

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The advances in haptic technology mentioned above have, for example, enabled much better training applications to be developed for dentists and surgeons, and this type of experiential learning could have a significantly positive impact on patient safety. The Louvre, for example, has been using AR as early as 2015.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Like many other technologies, there is no perfect roadmap to learning XR. Nevertheless, I have tried my level best to come up with a generalized learning process for the same. Learn programming from YouTube, Udemy, Udacity and a thousand other free platforms. There are tons of online resources to learn these.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. nReal clones.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. The core machine-learning algorithms interpret the camera feed to generate a real-time stream of data points such as pupil size, gaze vector, and eye openness.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. There is a long list of examples of things that should be improved. The whole machine equipment. The last paragraph of this point talks about VR videos. –Industry Solutions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

On-site teams equipped with smart glasses could access instructional content such as supplementary manuals, training videos, and images that a frontline worker can use while repairing a machine. For example, Microsoft recently partnered with Meta to integrate its Office Suite into the Meta Quest Pro.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

It’s drawing from a philosophically introspective yarn, exploring the what-ifs of humanity giving society over to intelligent machines. Roy Batty was an example figure we discussed when designing LCF-R’s makeup and persona. It was important to me personally to learn as many technical roles as I could when starting the studio.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2018

Today I’ve had the occasion to meet HTC China president Alvin Wang Graylin in my city, Turin (Italy). Futhermore thanks to gamification, VR could make learning more interesting; His overall vision of VR is that it something that should help people in having better lives. I think that VR at HTC is in great hands.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Globally only China has really experienced adoption at scale for VR and while I am not personally aware of what the market looks like in China, I have trusted friends from companies such as HTC who inform me that VR technology is widespread in that market. VR training is one of the standout examples and has many benefits.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Turns out, XR tickles the thalamus in ways traditional learning strategies never could, and that’s not us just whistling Dixie. He’s also a learning scientist and a research fellow at Amalgam Insights. Every one of those examples is a people example; people interacting with other people. But why is that?

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