Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This was widely shared – leading to many believing Quest just got body tracking support – but both the name of the API and the illustration are misleading. Meta’s Hand Tracking API provides the actual position of your hands & fingers, tracked by the outwards-facing cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2023

The Vive XR Elite can detach the back battery (Image by HTC Vive) I had the paranoia to make the glasses turn off during this operation, but Mister President told me that the XR Elite has a small internal battery that makes the headset survive around 10-15 minutes without an attached power source. I didn’t imagine this to be so easy.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Lauded as a contender to the Pico 4 Enterprise, HTC VIVE Elite Pro, and others, the Quest Pro will now see its consumer-facing sibling enter global markets this year. This will also add TruTouch haptics and optimal Direct Touch hand tracking capabilities “out of the box.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

We’ve seen a myriad of attempts, but so far none that match the precision, latency, and robustness of the ‘outside-in’ approach employed by devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens. “As It’s clear that ARVR is an explosive market.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

January saw HTC Vive hold its first developer jam in five years, created in collaboration with Admix, Corsair and VRFocus. Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Watching the video, it is possible to see that thanks to some machine learning magic, the user is able to have in his hands two controllers full of capacitive sensors and the system is able to predict with very good accuracy the full pose of the hand , even in complicated conditions like the hand being full of sweat.

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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

JULY 16, 2020

This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. It can so be used as a hand tracking device; Vibrotactile feedback : SenseGlove has some motors that can vibrate so that you feel vibrations on your fingertips.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Once in the game, the main villain and namesake, Arcade acts as an overlord, challenging players, learning and adapting as gameplay progresses. Haptic gloves: Similar to the gloves attached to the cabinet, the at home version exoskeleton design brings hand tracking and touch to VR. Brainscan (1994).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. HTC has started selling again the OG Vive headset, but this time selling second-hand devices. The hype is rising….

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Create a TeamViewer account and add the Office PC as one of your machines , so that you can log in every time you want, and even reboot the remote PC without any risks. Also now there will be interesting events in VR, like HTC’s VEC that will happen inside ENGAGE. You can attend them to meet new people and learn something new !

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Arguably the most important update, and something long awaited by the non-Beta community, was the activation of eye tracking. 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. As the old saying goes, “Content is king!”

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Competitors rely on expensive hardware-level depth sensing, but Tesla and Meta are betting on rapid advancements in machine learning rendering this a useless added cost in the future.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Then, off the track we may also have been spoken about Half Life 3… but I can’t tell you anything. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). We can track wands… this [shows a device in front of the camera] is our six degrees of freedom wand that comes with it. Here you are the full video of the interview.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. The idea of the algorithm is rendering the VR experience at low resolution and then use Machine Learning magic to expand this low-res rendering to the native resolution of Quest while preserving the visual fidelity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. VRGO is a special pillow that you can put on your chair so that you can control your movements in the VR game by just leaning your body : e.g. if you learn forward, you can walk forward in the game.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. There’s a lot to learn about how we can start to blend these different experiences into the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader. And so they’re starting to learn about the whole notion of bundling, and what’s going to drive adoption. Bob: Yeah, so.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to “change everything without changing anything.” All that and more on the XR for Business Podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to “change everything without changing anything.” All that and more on the XR for Business Podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We'll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to "change everything without changing anything." You need to bring in a machine or in location, and that sort of thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader. And so they’re starting to learn about the whole notion of bundling, and what’s going to drive adoption. Bob: Yeah, so.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

” To learn more about the Voices Of VR and sign up for the podcast. And when I started the podcast, I wanted to learn about what was happening in the industry. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. it’s voicesofVR.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

To learn more about the Voices Of VR and sign up for the podcast. And when I started the podcast, I wanted to learn about what was happening in the industry. It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. it's voicesofVR.com. Kent: Yeah. it's voicesofVR.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

” To learn more about the Voices Of VR and sign up for the podcast. And when I started the podcast, I wanted to learn about what was happening in the industry. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. it’s voicesofVR.com.

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