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JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. That leaves HTC to fall back to the enterprise sector, the one place where it has long had a strong reputation.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Notably, the headset doesn’t include the requiste SteamVR tracking base stations or SteamVR-compatible controllers like the Valve Index controller or HTC Vive wand—you’ll have to purchase those separately. Valve Index, HTC Vive). Full-Body Tracking SteamVR trackers (ex. HTC Vive Tracker, Tundra Tracker).

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MAY 18, 2022

The report (via 9to5Mac ) details some anecdotes reaching back as far as 2016, when the company allegedly first showed off a number of AR and VR prototypes to industry leaders and Apple elite. N301 may pack a dozen cameras for room-scale tracking, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and passthrough AR.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. Nvidia RTX. Stealth game ‘Budget Cuts’ resurfaces.

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JUNE 6, 2019

HTC had the hottest VR headset out of the gate in 2016, but the thinning margins on consumer hardware thanks to Oculus have pushed them into the enterprise business. The only difference over the previous-generation Vive Pro (with a $1,399 bundle price) is the eye-tracking capabilities.

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JULY 5, 2017

inches diagonally that boast 3,000 pixels per inch (PPI)—a significant jump from Oculus Rift of HTC Vive’s 447-461 PPI. It’s also difficult to say how a hardware-based solution will stand up to everyday use since it requires lenses to physically move every time your eye shifts position. image courtesy Ubergizmo.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

It introduces new features never before shipped, and its visionOS fuses eye tracking and hand tracking for intuitive input with a unique take on the spectrum of immersion. Hand Tracking Apple describes the hand tracking quality as "so precise, it completely frees up your hands from needing clumsy hardware controllers."

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. AR glasses.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

HTC is looking to differentiate itself in consumer VR with Vive XR Elite. Starting at $1100, the Vive XR Elite marks HTC’s initial effort to reclaim some of the consumer standalone VR market after retreating to focus on enterprises. Vive XR Elite: HTC’s Mixed Reality Takes Shape.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

Superdata, a market research company, continues to downgrade its 2016 virtual reality sales projections ; beginning the year at $5.1 Here’s some market data that does exist, all of which is relevant to 2016: According to Develop , 80% of consumers are unaware of VR. VR Consumption, 2016. million units in 2016.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Abrash’s 2021 predictions for VR, presented at Oculus Connect 3 in 2016. VR is a demanding process and it’s on GPU manufacturers to provide hardware for consumers that provide believable experiences not just in visual fidelity but also framerate and performance. So what exactly did Abrash predict? Was he right?:

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Comparing PSVR vs. PSVR 2 specs side-by-side shows us how much has changed since Sony’s first consumer headset released in 2016. The original PSVR was released about six months after the first major consumer VR headsets—HTC Vive and Oculus Rift—hit the market back in 2016. 3.5mm aux output. 3.5mm aux output. Microphone.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023. Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Introduction Following my first article earlier this year, Pimax’s Crystal has pleasantly surprised me with a series of software updates that activated new hardware features , whilst bringing quality-of-life improvements to headset connection and tracking. Happy anniversary , Pimax!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Pokemon: Go debuted in 2016, and it was massively successful at delivering an AR immersive experience at scale. Social media applications like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok push AR content via simple face-tracking graphics and games. For mobile XR hardware, movement and mobility are vital. A Guide to AR Reviews.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The company’s training platform includes partners across multiple devices, including Meta Quest, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, SAP, NIIT, and Amazon, among others. IT ensures that security, hardware and supporting software such as Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools all meet company requirements.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Alstrup is the founder and former CEO of eye-tracking company The Eye Tribe, which was acquired by Facebook in late 2016. It’s clear that the next generation of VR headsets are heading down the path of integrated eye-tracking though, and Alstrup sees EEG data being able to work in concert.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

The device is still too expensive and too limited both in hardware and in available content for the general consumer. No other app has replicated that success and there must be a reason: the user experience of AR mobile app is awful, with the user required to continuously have the smartphone in front of his eyes.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

While the company is targeting enterprise customers in the West, the Neo 2 line is eyeing up the same hardware category as Facebook’s Oculus Quest, and doing a solid job at that. The only appreciable difference between the the Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye is that the latter includes integrated eye-tracking from Swedish firm Tobii.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

So, for me, there’s a set of technological things that feel further off in terms of what you might call “high-end AR” compared to what we are seeing in a “high-end VR” experience like an HTC Vive. Road to VR: Are there still hardware investment opportunities out there? There’s actually understanding there.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. It has to be real-time. Alan: Absolutely.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. It has to be real-time. Alan: Absolutely.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

What made the VR 820 so compelling was that it had 6-DoF tracking as well as integrated compute (Snapdragon 820) which was on par with all the latest flagship phones. It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Also, the hardware will follow this trend: at CES, in fact, we have seen mostly the launch of new enterprise headsets (Pico Neo 2, XTAL 8K, etc…). Truly next-gen VR (featuring a fantastic display and very wide FOV, varifocal resolution, eye tracking, haptics controllers, etc…) will take many years to realize.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here’s our technical analysis of it as VR hardware. PSVR 2 offers major upgrades over the original 2016 product. PSVR 1 required an array of cables connected to a breakout box and a PlayStation Camera, while PSVR 2 connects via a single USB-C cable and has onboard cameras for inside-out tracking. Headset Rumble ?

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AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. It has to be real-time. Alan: Absolutely.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. IMR has developed an algorithm and hardware that enables wireless transmission and streaming of VR video over the leading wireless standards.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. January 2016. February 2016.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. It would be great if Meta managed to create a cool device of this kind.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. That Damn Battery Arguably the fiercest hardware debate right now in the industry is what to do with the damn battery.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Unless overuse of VR headsets has granted them telepathic super powers, it would have been pretty hard for any one person to predict everything that happened to the VR industry in 2016. 2) 2017 needs to be about experimentation, just like 2015 and 2016. 4) VR is here, 2016 was the year of VR availability.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. As hardware and software mature, awareness is driven by wonderful things like Pokemon Go. Instead of having to install applications to do this, it’ll be part of the OS and part of the hardware itself.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

This is the current SteamVR controller pricing in GBP (shipping to UK) at the time the article was written: HTC Vive controller (2018) single £193 includes free shipping and tax HTC Vive controller (2018) pair £386.00 Image provided by Rob Cole). Pimax 8K Kickstarter campaign (Image by Pimax on Kickstarter, provided by Rob Cole).

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MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE. …and more. LA, GET EXCITED: BJORK’S VR EXHIBITION COMES TO LOS ANGELES.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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