Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

See Also : Limited Edition DOTA 2 Championship HTC Vive Now Available. While the Oculus Rift and OSVR HDK headsets are both supported by SteamVR, only headsets with motion controllers are supported at this time, making it a defacto HTC Vive experience. Installing the VR Hub. Install Dota 2 on Steam.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Mobile VR – iOS and Android. What Are the Key Features of MRTK-Unity? The MRTK-Unity Community.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Leap Motion Core Assets. The Leap Motion Unity assets provide an easy way to bring hands into a Unity game. Let us know in the comments!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I’m very curious about what he will reveal this week… it is the time for Magic Leap to take the rabbit out of the hat, or the show is over. More info (Report on Magic Leap) More info (Rony Abovitz’s tweet). Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

In our Exploration on World Design , we looked at how to create moods and experiences through imaginary environments. In this Exploration, we’ll cover some key spatial relationships in VR, and how you can build on human expectations to create a sense of depth and distance. But what about how they move through those worlds?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Facebook has deep expertise on AR and VR (I think we all know it), while Luxottica, that is the worldwide leader in glasses manufacturing (it is the brand behind Rayban, for instance), for sure knows how to create glasses that consumers want to wear. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

Reviewed On: HTC Vive (Vive Controllers) and Oculus Rift (Xbox Gamepad). This however doesn’t ring true for the Oculus Rift version, which offers only gamepad and keyboard/mouse controls currently—not at all damning in its own right I should preface. New Retro Arcade Neon Details: Official Site.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Don’t forget that Steam’s Winter Sale and Oculus’ as well are both still going on. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. This one lets you try out Leap Motion controls as well as the usual position-tracked and gamepad options.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. There are also scripts available for the PlayStation Move controllers and It will only be a matter of time until the VR Oculus Touch controller can be added to this list. That way you can also you do a lot of fun tricks. What’s in the box.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Let’s start with something easy: do you remember my article on how to stream the content of the Focus on an external screen? It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. Better integration with HTC phones. Image by HTC).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

But the Daydream project never took off, and its competitor Gear VR, thanks to Oculus money and branding has always performed better. VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. But now they rest together in piece. More info (Daydream dies) More info (Best Daydream exclusives). Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region. Alan: Oh, well thank you so much for taking the time to record this with us.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region. Alan: Oh, well thank you so much for taking the time to record this with us.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. I am personally very, very honored to be on the advisory board of XR Bootcamp and helping them really develop the future of how organizations will train their staff on how to build XR technologies. Ferhan: Hi, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. I am personally very, very honored to be on the advisory board of XR Bootcamp and helping them really develop the future of how organizations will train their staff on how to build XR technologies. Ferhan: Hi, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

But for most businesses, knowing the DNA of the technology will be less important than knowing how to best use it. I am personally very, very honored to be on the advisory board of XR Bootcamp and helping them really develop the future of how organizations will train their staff on how to build XR technologies. Ferhan: Hi, Alan.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The Verge) More info (How to get Snapchat Spectacles 4) More info (Snap acquires WaveOptics). Oculus Quest gets v29 update. For us developers, there is also now the possibility of opening WebXR links easily from the PC by writing their URLs in the Oculus Developer Hub. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). Has been at the forefront when it comes to XR, earlier he was VP, Platform Strategy & Dev Community at #HTC and is currently working at Facebook Reality labs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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