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Hands-on Vive Focus Plus Hand Tracking SDK

The Ghost Howls

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR.

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Win $80,000 In Prizes With MSI VR JAM

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It’s offering hopeful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive developers over $80,000 in prizes as it searches for great new PC-based VR experiences. Judges include MSI Marketing Director, Sam Chern, Futuretown CEO, Johan Yang, Unity Evangelist Kelvin Lo, and WEARVR COO, Andrew Douthwaite. Got an idea?

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Win $80,000 In Prizes With MSI’s Leading VR Experience Jam

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It’s offering hopeful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive developers over $80,000 in prizes as it searches for great new PC-based VR experiences. Judges include MSI Marketing Director, Sam Chern, Futuretown CEO, Johan Yang, Unity Evangelist Kelvin Lo, and WEARVR COO, Andrew Douthwaite. Got an idea?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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VR in 2016: HTC’s $799 Vive Brings Belief To VR Skeptics

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Ultimately Oculus stole headlines at CES — for both better and worse — with the launch of pre-orders for the Rift. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations. The $599 price tag for Vive’s biggest rival kept people guessing about just how much the more fully featured room-scale headset would really cost.

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